Get the weekly summary of crypto market analysis, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $2,17 trillion. Bitcoin continues to trade at around $62,300. Ethereum experiences no changes and stagnates at around $2,400. XRP is down by 2%, Solana by 1%, and Dogecoin by 3%. Almost all altcoins are trading in the red, with very few exceptions. The DeFi sector decreased the total value of protocols (TVL) to around…
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USDC’s Circle Files with SEC to Become a Commercial Bank
According to a post on Circle's website by Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire, the USDC stablecoin has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a U.S. federally-chartered national commercial bank. This happens amid executives at Tether, its larger rival, facing a criminal probe by U.S. prosecutors. Though the firm officially announced its decision to become a bank in its August 9th blog post, their S-4 filing to the SEC on August 6th insinuated its plans to become a…
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