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Binance Buys $100M Circle Stake, Signs 5-Year USDC Deal
Binance bought $100 million of Circle shares at a 5% discount and renewed its USDC deal for five years. Here is what it means for USDC and Tether's lead.
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Binance bought $100 million of Circle shares at a 5% discount and renewed its USDC deal for five years. Here is what it means for USDC and Tether's lead.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT is returning to Bitcoin, using the RGB protocol and Lightning. UniSat joins as a wallet partner. No launch date yet.
SoFi Bank now settles its whole Mastercard debit and credit card program in its own stablecoin, SoFiUSD. It is the first US national bank to go live.
BlackRock's 'Machine-Native Economy' paper argues AI agents will pay each other in stablecoins, and that most AI models it tested favour Bitcoin for saving.
Circle Foundation grants will help the UNDP and the World Food Programme test regulated stablecoins for sending aid faster and more cheaply.