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Circle said the stablecoin will be redeemable for US dollars starting Monday.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to One of DeFi's Most Important Stablecoins

A Step-by-Step Guide to One of DeFi's Most Important Stablecoins

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Circle, the issuer of USDC, will launch a new stablecoin pegged to the euro, the company announced Thursday. 

The move will enable Polygon-based businesses and developers to decrease settlement times and lower costs by accessing USDC directly.

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A new wave of DeFi players are trying to entice traditional savers with juicy yields.

Doomsday scenarios in DeFi revolve around the strength of stablecoins such as USDC and USDT.

Incentives work. Or at least they do in terms of wooing DeFi protocols to deploy on other blockchains.  Case in point, Curve Finance, the automated market maker, and Aave, the leading DeFi lending project, have each deployed their offerings on Avalanche as a part of the blockchain’s $180M incentive program called Avalanche Rush.  It’s the…

Add AngelList to the ever-lengthening list of mainstream tech outfits going crypto. On Tuesday it started letting investors use USDC-enabled funds on its site.  It’s a significant move. For the last decade, AngelList’s online bulletin board for angel investors and job-seekers has made it a valuable utility in the U.S. startup scene by playing matchmaker…

Crypto markets Tuesday morning appeared to be shaking off gut-wrenching falls in the last 24 hours. At one point Monday, At one point, ETH nosedived 2.8% in an hour. Ethereum was up 0.5% in trading at 7:15 AM, according to CoinGecko data.  Cardano increased 0.4% and Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink were flat. So, too, was…

Corporate debt is no longer good enough for Circle, the blockchain powerhouse. That’s the upshot of a move Circle announced on Sunday as it unveiled a rebalancing of the reserves that support USDC, it’s widely used stablecoin. Circle, a peer-to-peer payment platform powered by blockchain technology, will now solely use cash and short-duration U.S. Treasury…

DeFi’s most popular stablecoin issuer is going public. Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, announced its plans yesterday to go public in Q4 of this year through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal will happen with Concord Acquisition Corp. and Circle will trade under the ticker symbol CRCL with the transaction valuing the…