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Top Stories This Week Silicon Valley Bank shut down by California regulator, holding over $5 billion for prominent crypto VCs Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shut down by California’s financial watchdog on March 10 after announcing a significant sale of
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USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle plans to use "corporate resources" to cover the shortfall on its reserves following Silicon Valley Bank's shutdown, said the company in a statement on March 11. According to Circle, USDC liquidity operations will "resume as normal when banks open on Monday morning in the United States,"
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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has become the center of attention after its collapse prompted the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to shut the bank down on Friday. It was the largest U.S. bank failure since 2008, and various alleged catalysts have been pointed to. Some believe venture capitalists caused
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Circle’s USDC, the second-largest stablecoin with a market capitalization of $43b, has been hit by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). On Friday, regulators in California placed the bank under receivership, leaving investors needing clarification on the return of their deposits. As a result, the value of USDC fell
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BlockFi, a cryptocurrency lending platform, has been warned by the bankruptcy trustee that the $227m the company has in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may go against bankruptcy laws. This is because these funds are allegedly not protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) deposit insurance. It is because this amount
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"I am alarmed by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, which marks the second largest bank failure in U.S. history," she said in a statement. "I am closely monitoring and convening Committee members with regulators so myself and members can understand the latest around the closure of Silicon Valley Bank
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Crypto was born in the aftermath of – and, to some, in response to – the 2008 crisis. Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin paper debuted into a world where governments had just propped up the financial system by pouring money into it. Crypto lacks such a centralized authority. If SVB customers, including
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Almost immediately after USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle revealed it was not able to withdraw $3.3 billion of its $40 billion from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the resultant sell-off caused the price of the stablecoin to fall below its $1 mark.On March 9, Circle had initiated a wire transfer for
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Silicon Valley Bank, one of the reserve banking partner for Circle's USDC stablecoin, was shut down by regulators on Friday. Source
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On March 10, Blockchain payment tech company and USD Coin (USDC) issuers Circle confirmed that wires initiated on Thursday to remove balances have not yet been processed, leaving $3.3 billion of its $40 billion USDC reserves at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Concerns have been growing over USDC late this week
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