The market for tokenized real-world assets ( RWAs) has climbed to about $31.76 billion in onchain value, led by tokenized U.S. Treasuries from Circle and Blackrock. Fresh launches bringing private equity and payroll onchain suggest the institutional push is broadening beyond bonds. A Market Pushing Toward New Highs Tokenized real-world assets, i.e. traditional financial instruments […]
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Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick believes stablecoins are entering a new phase. While USDT and USDC remain dominant today, he argues that growing competition from banks, fintechs, and new issuers will eventually break the stablecoin duopoly and create a more diverse market built around specific use cases. Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick Says the USDT-USDC Duopoly Won’t […]
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Masspay has expanded its integration with Circle’s Managed Payments service to allow businesses to facilitate stablecoin payouts and treasury operations without the complexity of direct digital asset management. Abstracting Blockchain Complexity Global payouts platform Masspay has expanded its integration with Circle Payments Network’s Managed Payments service, enabling businesses to fund and make payments using stablecoins […]
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Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, allowing institutions and BTC holders to deploy bitcoin as collateral in decentralized finance ( DeFi) markets without selling their underlying position. What cirBTC Is Every cirBTC token is backed 1:1 by native bitcoin. The underlying BTC is held at a regulated Circle entity and kept separate from the company’s […]
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Circle blacklisted a publicly labeled Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama’s privacy protocol on Saturday, freezing approximately $12.6 million in USDC following a U.S. federal court order connected to a civil lawsuit against Overnight Finance founder Maxim Ermilov. Circle’s Zama Blacklist Freezes $12.6M, Raising Questions About USDC Use in DeFi Contracts The frozen address, 0xe978F22157048E5DB8E5d07971376e86671672B2, […]
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Cross-border payments platform Nium and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc. have launched a partnership to connect onchain digital dollar settlement with traditional last-mile fiat payouts. Circle Internet Group Connects USDC Settlement with Nium Cross-Border Infrastructure The collaboration integrates Nium into the Circle Payments Network, an infrastructure stack operated by Circle Technology Services LLC. Through […]
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Over the last seven days, the stablecoin sector posted a slight contraction of $90.01 million, bringing the market’s total valuation to $323.052 billion, according to figures compiled by Defillama. Tether continues to dominate the category, with its market capitalization sitting just below the $190 billion threshold at $189.468 billion, accounting for 58.65% of the stablecoin […]
]]>The official launch of QCAD, Stablecorp’s Canadian dollar stablecoin, to the Arc Testnet on StableFX is a major milestone in building robust, institutional-grade foreign exchange infrastructure directly onchain. At the same time, this integration brings native CAD-denominated stablecoin capabilities to USDC in the Arc ecosystem, empowering developers and institutions with programmable FX flows between the Canadian dollar and Dollar on-chain. As part of the announcement, it is noted that StableFX will allow near-real-time, atomic settlement between liquidity pools for CAD and USD, possibly lessening the friction associated with cross-border foreign exchange infrastructure. This rollout is also indicative of the wider
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Tether’s USDT has expanded by over $5 billion in the past month, with competing stablecoins including USDC, USDe, and PYUSD shedding a combined $4.2 billion over the same period. Tether Consolidates Grip as Rivals Retreat According to data, USDT’s net growth over the past month stands at roughly $900 million (0.3% of the total supply), […]
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