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On Saturday, March 11, 2023, Circle Financial updated the public about its stablecoin, USDC, and noted that the stablecoin’s liquidity operations will resume normally on Monday morning in the United States. Circle said that the company’s teams would be ready on Monday to “handle significant volume” and that the firm
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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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The company plans to use corporate resources to fill the gap, including external capital. Source
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According to a post on Mar. 11 by Bob Elliot, chief investment officer of Unlimited Funds, relief efforts may already be underway less than 72 hours after the collapse of prominent American tech bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Elliot claimed, among many items, that "big banks actively working on buying
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By Mar. 11, USDC, a stablecoin, de-pegged, falling to as low as $0.89 during the Asian session, trackers reveal. USDC de-pegs after Silicon Valley Bank folds The de-pegging of the USDC, theoretically meant to track the value of the USD, regardless of market volatility, is why Jesse Powell, the co-founder and CEO
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On March 11, 2023, the decentralized finance project Makerdao issued an emergency proposal following the USDC depegging incident that saw the stablecoin dip down to $0.877 per unit. At the time of writing, Makerdao commands $3.1 billion in USDC collateral that backs a portion of the project’s stablecoin, DAI. Makerdao Proposes
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Stablecoin swapping pool Curve Finance is experiencing the highest daily trading volume in its history, exceeding $7 billion in the past 24 hours after the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse triggered a wave of uncertainty across markets and depegged the USD Coin (USDC) from the U.S. dollar. Looks like we have
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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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Robinhood, a platform that allows the commission-free trading of, among other instruments, cryptocurrencies, via a mobile app, has halted the depositing and trading of USDC. Robinhood temporarily pauses depositing and trading of USDC Reports on Mar. 11 show that the trading portal has temporarily paused the trading and depositing of USDC. The
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In response to the extraordinary depegging event of the USD Coin stablecoin caused by the collapse of its counterparty Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), crypto whales have reported severe losses and appear to have embarked on a series of capital flight to protect assets. Du Jun, co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi
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