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A national trust charter is the structural prize stablecoin issuers have spent years lobbying for: it puts USDC under the same federal supervisor as the country's largest banks and sidelines…
The framework gives the sector legal clarity it has wanted for years, but the compliance cost may concentrate issuance among the firms that can absorb it.
The charter pulls $73.2B in USDC reserves one regulator closer to OCC supervision, and it lands inside a wave of crypto firms, from Kraken to BitGo, racing for federal banking licences.
First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. is the inaugural national trust charter scoped to a stablecoin issuer, giving USDC a federally supervised fiduciary home before the stablecoin regime goes…
The OCC charter lets Circle sit alongside the regulated US banks holding digital assets in custody, formalising the legitimacy that issuers have spent the last three years arguing USDC already has.
Ark rotated out of Robinhood and into USDC issuer Circle the same week Circle's stock slid more than 20% from its post-IPO peak, a classic Wood-style buy-the-dip on a name she has called out as…
The Wisconsin criminal complaint is unusual: it targets a stablecoin issuer's refusal to act on a fraud recovery request, not a stablecoin depeg or reserve shortfall.
The complaint alleges Circle failed to comply with a court order to recover stolen assets, the first known criminal action against a major USDC issuer for refusing a freeze request.
Connectia Trust joins a growing roster of federally chartered stablecoin issuers racing into a $312B market where USDT and USDC already hold ~80% of the float and new entrants must find a wedge.
A 21.6% slide in Binance's USDC balance over 30 days and $1B+ in net outflows strip the largest venue of the dry powder that absorbs selling pressure, leaving spot books more exposed to sudden moves.
Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.
A regional trading contest with a ₹3.3 crore ($350K+) USDC prize pool. The interesting read is what landing a perps leaderboard in India says about Coinbase's retail expansion order of operations.
Dune data shows the two largest stablecoins have settled into distinct lanes: USDT on Tron for B2B flows, USDC on Base and Ethereum for on-chain finance, with the split now defining the sector.
Visa's onchain dashboard puts USDC near triple USDT's share and total adjusted volume past $8.8T in H1 2026, with Standard Chartered and BNY now building around Circle's rails.
USDC took two-thirds of the $1.79T flow and Base narrowly edged Ethereum on-chain, the first time a Layer 2 has outpaced mainnet in Visa's adjusted-volume ranking.
BitGo's Bielik deal shows how the regulation is preserving user access on the surface while quietly rerouting control of stablecoins through regulated bank and custody channels.
Standard Chartered and BNY are now minting and custodying USDC, while European lenders race to launch a euro alternative before dollar-backed tokens anchor the next settlement layer.
The exchange helped build USDC and now sits on the steering committee of a consortium whose stablecoin is positioned to compete with it, exposing a structural conflict that Circle cannot ignore.
The headline vote reads upbeat, yet Paxos's 2024 run at the same model landed at ~$3B in supply against USDC's $73B. The partner list, not the policy, is where this story actually lives.
The one-year rulemaking clock triggers the full compliance stack under the law, and at roughly $15M a year for audits, legal, and AML, the bill crushes a $200M issuer while barely denting a $10B one.
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