Bitcoin has absorbed a fresh macro shock without losing its broader post-breakout structure. The Federal Reserve raised its target rate by 25 basis points to 4.00% on Wednesday, a tightening move that also strengthened the dollar and pushed Treasury yields higher. Despite this traditionally challenging backdrop for
A complete guide to Arc, Circle’s stablecoin-native Layer 1 blockchain, covering its architecture, USDC gas model, ecosystem, use cases and competition.
Tokens on Circle’s new Arc blockchain fell in the past 24 hours after traders said they sold because a builder on the mainnet launch livestream appeared to be Indian. The man in the clip does not work for Circle. Panchu Vijay Pal runs XyloNet, a third-party stablecoin exchange that Circle’s Arc team featured as a
Barcelona, 17 September 2026. The Vault, the institutional digital asset custody platform regulated in Switzerland and the EU, has launched its own multi-party computation (MPC) library, the cryptography that allows separate parties to hold shares of a signing key so that a complete private key never exists on any
Washington’s stablecoin debate is about characteristics: who can issue one, what has to back it, and how it gets audited. The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, and the OCC, the regulator that supervises the country’s national banks, cannot simply accept that a token is worth one dollar; they have to control who is