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Circle is a financial technology company that issues the USDC stablecoin and trades publicly on the NYSE under ticker CRCL.
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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.
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Bitget lost about $387.5 million on September 24 after attackers used stolen admin credentials to inject withdrawals that its risk checks treated as internal. Its first alarm halted user withdrawals while the backend kept signing, according to a dev.to analysis.
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Tether-backed Utexo plans to issue USDT on Bitcoin and police the nearly $190 billion stablecoin there with a coin blacklist in place of address freezes. Utexo cannot freeze those coins, so a block holds only where exchanges and bridges check the list.
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Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.
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Open USD launched with Stripe distribution and $468 million of backed supply, about 0.15% of a dollar-stablecoin market led by USDT and USDC. Its share grows only if Stripe customers move payments and treasury balances into it beyond the liquidity its founders seeded.
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Bitget has recovered an estimated 0.2% of the $387.5 million hackers drained on September 24, through freezes by NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle. Its own User Protection Fund is covering the rest, so the protocols that cooperated cut Bitget's bill by less than $1 million.
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Hyperliquid's first AQAv2 payout, about $14.58 million in USDC reserve yield, is headed to the fund that buys and burns HYPE. That money is interest on deposits, so part of HYPE's buyback bid now moves with balances and rates as well as with trading.
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Europe's central banks asked Brussels to extend MiCA's stablecoin interest ban to lending and staking, a move a campaign says 50,000-plus citizens opposed. A ban that reaches borrower-paid returns could leave euro-regulated tokens unable to match perks offered by dollar stablecoins.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD layer refused all but $166,000 of a $50 million-plus attempt by Bitget's hackers. That makes screening policy the clearest difference between NEAR and THORChain. Each protocol carries a different exposure because of it.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen doubts much of the $387.5 million stolen via a backend tied to a third-party security vendor will come back. So far about 0.2% of the loss has been frozen, so the exchange itself is paying for an outsourced security flaw.
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Coinbase opened OUSD transfers on four chains on October 1, a day after the stablecoin it co-owns went live. Because Coinbase is one of its owners, the speed mostly shows Coinbase's own incentive; the case against USDT and USDC depends on venues and businesses that hold no equity.
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Bitget says attackers stole $387.5 million after exploiting zero-days in two third-party security appliances. Investigators say the appliances' privileged access led the attacker to its production wallet server.
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Circle is building USDC payments into Volante's bank software, which Volante says seven of the ten largest US banks already use. The integration is set up as a test layer, so for now that count shows Volante's sales reach and says little about how many banks will use USDC in live payments.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen expects to recover little of the $388 million stolen from the exchange, citing Bybit's 3.5% freeze rate. On that benchmark about $13.6 million is frozen within a year and roughly $374 million stays with whoever carries the loss.
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Wallets tied to the $387.5 million Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool on September 30. The deposit is about 1% of the theft, and across every route tracked so far roughly 13 dollars have gone dark for each dollar frozen.
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Open Standard's OUSD stablecoin launched Sept. 30 with over $1 billion from Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa. Because partners collect most of the reserve yield, the payment firms that distribute stablecoins now have a revenue reason to push this one.
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Circle released three kits on September 30 that let Arc apps sell USDC, offer Morpho yield and lend against Bitcoin without writing smart contracts. Apps that adopt them skip the contract work and take on a dependence on Circle, Morpho and outside KYC firms.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration on September 28 for its own clearinghouse, limited to fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Its margined business and planned single-stock perpetual futures will keep clearing through outside partners.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration on Sept. 28 for its own clearinghouse, licensed for fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Margined contracts, including planned single-stock perpetuals, still clear through outside partners.
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