2020-11-7 19:14 |
High yields and frequent interest payments on Circle’s business accounts may be designed to compete with DeFi protocols
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Two years ago the cryptocurrency firm Circle announced the launch of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U. S. dollar. This week, Circle revealed the launch of high yield digital dollar business accounts with APY up to 10.
2020-11-7 07:30 | |
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Over the past eight months, the market cap of USDC has surged a whopping 560%. Before the violent sell-off at the beginning of March, this stablecoin was a mere $445 million, which is ready to hit $3 billion, as per CoinGecko.
2020-11-7 19:28 | |
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As Circle looks to dive deeper into making its stablecoin (USDC) a household name, it is continuing to spin-off acquired projects that aren't a core business. Next up on the chopping block is the crowdfunding platform SeedInvest that it bought back in October of 2018.
2020-3-11 00:25 | |
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Today, we unveiled a new set of services aimed at helping to usher in the wider use of digital currency in everyday payments and commerce. Specifically, we are expanding our rollout of Business Accounts and a set of developer-oriented platform services dubbed Circle APIs.
2020-3-10 17:00 | |
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Circle is rolling out business accounts denominated in the stablecoin USDC and looking to sell crowdfunding platform SeedInvest as part of an ongoing pivot.
2020-3-10 17:00 | |
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Voyager Digital Canada has announced its purchase of Circle Invest, bringing an additional 40,000 retail accounts into its operations. Voyager’s U.S. Expansion The Canadian-based operator of the American digital asset...The post Voyager to Acquire Circle Invest appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-13 18:42 | |
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Voyager plans to convert 40,000 Circle Invest accounts to its own platform by the end of next month, but promises little disruption to customer experience.
2020-2-13 18:06 | |
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Voyager Digital Canada, Ltd. , operator of U. S. digital asset broker Voyager and the Ethos Universal Wallet, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Circle Invest, the retail cryptocurrency account business from Circle Internet Financial, Inc.
2020-2-13 17:28 | |
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As part of its release of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, Circle may begin charging fees to Poloniex US customers. And the company warns that any unclaimed digital assets, those in dormant accounts, may be sent to state governments, consistent with relevant regulations for abandoned property.
2019-12-5 10:30 | |
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Beginning today, U.S.-based users will no longer be able to create new accounts on Poloniex as the exchange spins out from Circle to form a new exchange
2019-10-19 20:47 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourcePoloniex, the bitcoin and crypto exchange owned by Circle, announced today that users in over 80 countries can now transfer money directly to and from their bank accounts.
2019-7-10 01:13 | |
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By CCN Markets: Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has just issued a security advisory telling its customers that it is witnessing an increase in unwarranted attempts to access customer accounts.
2019-6-12 16:55 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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The attestation report prepared by Grant Thornton has verified Circle’s claims that 177.1 million USDC in circulation were backed by more than $180 million in custody accounts.
2018-12-21 15:16 | |
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Last Laugh For USDC As Silvergate Exchange Network Is Now Available For Transactions Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) is now supporting the redemption and issuance of US Dollar Coin commonly abbreviated as USDC.
2018-12-18 23:30 | |
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CryptoNinjas Crypto exchange Poloniex, acquired by Circle Internet Financial, Inc. at the beginning of this year, has announced that institutional accounts are now available. To commemorate the occasion, Poloniex customers will enjoy no fees on BTC/USDC trades during.
2018-12-5 09:47 | |
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On December 4, The Circle team announced that institutional accounts became available on Poloniex. “Institutions large and small can enjoy the benefits of our large curated selection of crypto asset trading pairs, dedicated support and robust API services”, – reads the announcement.
2018-12-5 09:33 | |
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One of the most popular virtual currency exchanges, Poloniex, announced that institutional accounts are now available on their platform. The main intention is to offer services to institutions of different sizes.
2018-12-5 03:02 | |
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Circle, родительская компания криптовалютной биржи Poloniex, сообщила о введении нового типа аккаунтов, ориентированных на так называемых институциональных клиентов. Institutional accounts are now available on Poloniex! Learn more about Poloniex for institutions and open an account today https://t.
2018-12-5 23:53 | |
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The attestation report made by Grant Thornton US has verified Circle’s claims that more than 127.4 million USDC coins in circulation were backed by the same amount of fiat money in custody accounts.
2018-11-22 20:07 | |
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Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.
2018-11-22 22:05 | |
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With a revision to the popular exchange’s terms of use, users from a handful of jurisdictions will have their access to Poloniex shuttered. According to an October 18, 2018, update, “the websites and the services offered by Poloniex (as defined below) are NOT addressed to persons who have their registered office or place of residence in China, Germany, Pakistan, the U.
2018-10-26 22:46 | |
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CryptoNinjas Bitcoin exchange Coinbase announced today support for their first stablecoin. Customers in supported jurisdictions can now buy, sell, send and receive the Circle USD Coin (USDC) in their accounts.
2018-10-24 20:03 | |
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Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
2018-10-23 23:22 | |
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Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.
2018-10-16 22:06 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Regulated stablecoins continue their disruptive journey into mass adoption as Circle announces application of tokenized fiat assets. The U. S. dollar-backed stablecoin USD//Coin (USDC) is the product of Circle’s partnership with CENTRE, the open source distribution network which will facilitate deposits from U.
2018-9-27 01:32 | |
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Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.
2018-9-27 20:50 | |
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Today Circle and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced a service to tokenize US dollars and use those dollars over public blockchains on the internet: USD//Coin, also known as USDC. Individuals and institutions can enroll in this service to deposit US dollars from bank accounts, convert those dollars into
2018-10-5 16:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex is delisting eight coins: BitcoinDark (BTCD), Bitmark (BTM), Einsteinium, (EMC2), Gridcoin (GRC), NeosCoin (NEOS), PotCoin (POT), VeriCoin (VRC) and BitcoinPlus (XBC).
2018-9-20 01:10 | |
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