By Hassan Shittu Key highlights: Binance invested $100M in Circle and signed a 5-year commercial agreement to promote USDC across its 300M+ user platform The more USDC Binance holds via Circle’s Modular Smart Contract Wallet, the higher the monthly payment, replacing earlier agreements from November 2024 and August 2025 Circle is simultaneously expanding beyond USDC: […]
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By Michael Adeleke Key highlights: Circle announced the launch of the public mainnet of Arc on Wednesday Founding validators of the Layer 1 blockchain feature BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, among others Transaction fees would be paid in USDC, with a target base fee of $0.01 per transaction Circle has opened the public mainnet of Arc, a […]
By Chayanika Deka Chainalysis is challenging the US government’s decision to award a blockchain analytics contract to TRM Labs without a competitive bidding process. According to a case filed in the US Court of Federal Claims, the company alleged that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) favored TRM Labs. […]