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Infrastructure

Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

ARB led the 108 largest non-stablecoin tokens after chain fees on Robinhood’s network doubled in a day, taking the Arbitrum DAO’s contractual 10% cut to…
Payments

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Buys $37 Million in Bitcoin and Payments Firm Block

The investment firm bought 456,059 Block shares across three ETFs and added $3.4 million in Circle stock. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Payments

Ethena launches USDe payments app, offers 6% rewards

The self-custodial app brings USDe into everyday payments, savings and cross-border transfers, with annualized rewards of up to 6%. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Institutional

Citi, Goldman, other global banks and asset managers team up on stablecoin venture

The group will focus first on a U.S. dollar stablecoin for payments and digital asset settlement, with a euro token a priority for expansion. Read…
DeFi

Sberbank Plans to Accept Ether and USDT as Collateral for Crypto-Backed Loans

Russia’s largest bank will widen its crypto lending beyond bitcoin once the assets are cleared to circulate publicly, a deputy chairman told TASS. The post…
DeFi

Russia's Sberbank Sees $46 Billion in Crypto Trading, Plans Ethereum and USDT-Backed Loans

Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov told state media that trading could hit 4 trillion rubles in its first year, as the bank prepares to broaden crypto-backed…
Institutional

Sberbank plans to add ether and USDT as collateral for crypto-backed loans: Report

The Bank of Russia recently included ETH and USDT in a draft list of cryptocurrencies approved for public trading on Russian exchanges. Read Full Story…
Payments

Circle Becomes Chelsea’s Front-of-Shirt Sponsor in Premier League First for Crypto

Circle takes over the Premier League shirt slot Chelsea left empty for three years. The post Circle Becomes Chelsea’s Front-of-Shirt Sponsor in Premier League First…
Payments

CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC

Circle’s wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as Arc becomes the next distribution…
Payments

CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC

Circle’s wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as Arc becomes the next distribution…