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Hackers have managed to infiltrate the Twitter account of a Circle executive to falsely state that the stablecoin issuer was conducting a USDC airdrop. The fake airdrop leads to a phishing website likely designed to steal users’ tokens. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire confirmed that the Twitter account belonging to Dante Disparte, the company’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy, was hacked. Perpetrators used Disparte’s account to announce a fake USDC airdrop to the...

The USDC depeg caused significant turmoil in the market last week. The stablecoin issuer Circle claimed that it has cleared “substantially all of the backlog of minting and redemption requests for USDC.” In a recent statement, Circle said it had redeemed $3.8 billion of USDC tokens over the period and minted $800 million. The Boston-headquartered company also went live with a new transaction banking partner for domestic US wires in and out on March 14. Circle further revealed...

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the addition of key industry members to the newly constituted Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The official press release stated that the agency has appointed White House official Carole House as the new chair, while blockchain analysis company TRM Labs’ Ari Redboard has been onboarded as the vice chair of its Technology Advisory Committee. Committee Members The Technology Advisory Committee will be joined by...

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire spoke on Tuesday recapping the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and USDC drama from his company’s perspective.  According to Allaire, all of the company’s cash reserves are now stored with Bank of New York Melon. Rescuing Crypto From Banking During the interview, Allaire said his company was prepared to use Circle’s own corporate funds to backstop its underwater cash reserves before banks opened on Monday. The firm held $3.3 billion with SVB, which it...

Ethereum’s Co-Founder – Vitalik Buterin – recently sent 200 ETH (approximately $350,000 at current valuations) to an address belonging to the crypto exchange Kraken and 500 ETH (over $875,000) to the DeFi protocol Reflexer. He deposited the 500 ETH to mint 150,000 RAI tokens, exchanging most for USDC.  The stablecoin passed through some turbulence lately, depegging from its target after Circle revealed a whopping $3.3 billion exposure to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The peg has...

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The decline of centralized entities has worked out well for their decentralized counterparts. Over the weekend, USDC witnessed a significant trading volume on several decentralized exchanges. Uniswap, for one, reached its highest daily volume ever of $11.84 billion on March 11th. But it isn’t the only decentralized protocol that saw traction. Decentralized Exchanges Register Impressive Growth The development comes in the backdrop of Circle’s USDC de-pegging event that...