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Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Furthers Push Into Payments With Tools Suite

The new “payment engine” will allow merchants to quickly access funds from customer sales through instant fiat-to-stablecoin conversion. 

Lit Protocol has raised $13 million in a Series A round. (Pixabay)

Finance

Coinbase to Significantly Benefit From $1.6B Transfer of MakerDAO's USDC, Analyst Says

A proposal to move the stablecoin assets was made by Coinbase in September and is nearing a final deadline.

Coinbase has proposed moving $1.6 billion of MakerDAO's USDC to Coinbase Prime. (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Waives Fees for Converting Between USDC and Fiat, Eyeing Global Audience

The company hopes the move will encourage wider global adoption of the stablecoin it helped invent.

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Learn

Fiat-Backed Stablecoins: What You Need to Know About Tether, USD Coin and Others

Fiat-backed stablecoins are cryptocurrencies pegged to the value of real-world currencies, such as the U.S. dollar or euro, and backed by reserves in that currency.

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Markets

Back to Square One? Circle's USDC Market Cap Drops Below $50B for First Time Since Terra's Collapse

USDC's utility has taken a hit in the wake of Binance's decision to consolidate order books and Circle's decision to freeze addresses associated with Tornado Cash.

USDC's market cap drops to lowest since January (CoinGecko, CoinDesk)

Web3

Andrew Yang, an Ex-US Presidential Candidate, Joins Web3 Platform Pool Data as Adviser

The data monetization platform is launching crypto-based market infrastructure, payments rails and consumer-ready app tools.

Andrew Yang is raising money for a new company that combines cryptocurrency and charity. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Even 'Safe' Stablecoins Might Pose Financial Stability Risk, New York Fed Says

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a new paper claiming Circle's USDC stablecoin poses a risk to the broader financial system.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

The Dollar Can Be a Protocol for the Future of Money

USDC's stablecoin-fueled model of money, in which the dollar functions as an open “protocol,” could allow innovation to flourish. But healthy competition is a prerequisite.

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Videos

Native USDC on Cosmos to Fill Vacuum Left by Terra’s UST Stablecoin

Circle said on Wednesday that it plans to launch its USD coin (USDC) stablecoin – the second-largest dollar-backed stablecoin by market capitalization – natively on Cosmos in early 2023. Jelena Djuric, ecosystem lead at Cosmos Research, discusses what this means for the Cosmos ecosystem and decentralized finance.

Recent Videos

Finance

Fintech App Eco to Convert User Balances From US Dollars to USDC

Eco will use digital settlement-service platform Zero Hash to custody the stablecoins.

Andy Bromberg speaks at Token Summit NYC 2018.