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Circle Partners With New York Community Bancorp — Bank to Custody USDC Reserves

29/06/2022 by Idelto Editor

Circle Internet Financial has revealed a usd coin custody partnership with the American bank holding company New York Community Bancorp (NYCB). Under the agreement, NYCB’s subsidiary, New York Community Bank, will become a custodian for the company’s stablecoin reserves.

Circle Partners With New York Community Bancorp

On Tuesday, Circle announced that it is collaborating with NYCB, the parent company of the U.S. Bank National Association. According to the announcement, NYCB’s subsidiary, New York Community Bank, will custody reserves for Circle’s popular stablecoin usd coin (USDC).

USDC is the second largest stablecoin today with a $53.9 billion market capitalization. During the past 24 hours, Circle’s USDC stablecoin has seen $5 billion in global trade volume. New York Community Bank will also work with Circle in order to provide unbanked communities with access to low-cost financial solutions.

The companies’ strategies will leverage blockchain solutions and stablecoin systems. Solutions include the allocation of USDC dollar-denominated reserves to Minority Depository Institutions Programs (MDIs) and community banks. Dante Disparte, the chief strategy officer and head of global policy for Circle, explained that the future of money will be more inclusive.

“If we want to make the future of money and payments more inclusive than the past, we have to build new partnerships and connections at the community level,” Disparte remarked in a statement.

Circle’s chief strategy officer added:

By partnering with NYCB, we are opening up new pathways for community banks and MDIs across the country to be key participants in the fast-growing digital assets market.

Circle Wants to Improve Financial Inclusion — Blackrock and BNY Mellon Also Handle USDC’s Reserve Management and Custodial Services

On November 17, 2021, Disparte wrote a blog post that explained how Circle wants to “[improve] financial inclusion and economic prosperity for all.” The post discusses working with community banks and MDIs, and the concept of “raising global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value.”

The partnership with NYCB follows Moneygram launching a USDC crypto-to-cash program in specific markets. Furthermore, Circle recently launched USDC on the Polygon blockchain network and issued a second major stablecoin backed 1:1 with the euro.

Andrew Kaplan, the executive vice president and chief digital bank and banking as a service officer at NYCB said that the financial institution was “proud to be a leading digital asset innovator among U.S. banks.”

“We are thrilled that together with being a custodian for USDC reserves, we are also able to partner with Circle on meaningful initiatives to impact inclusion and education to our communities and customers,” Kaplan concluded.

In addition to NYCB, the financial giants Blackrock and BNY Mellon have partnered with Circle as well. Blackrock was named “a primary asset manager of USDC cash reserves,” and America’s oldest investment bank BNY Mellon was also revealed as a USDC custodian last April.

What do you think about Circle’s partnership with NYCB? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: Andrew Kaplan, Blackrock, BNY Mellon, Circle, Circle Internet Financial, community banks, crypto assets, Digital Currencies, English, euro coin (EUROC), Finance, MDIs, Minority Depository Institutions Programs, MoneyGram, News Bitcoin, NYCB, Polygon, second-largest stablecoin, Stablecoin, Stablecoins, usd coin, USDC, USDC Stablecoin

USDD Continues to Trade for Under $1 — Tron DAO Reserve Insists Stablecoin Has Not Depegged

21/06/2022 by Idelto Editor

USDD Continues to Trade for Under $1 — Tron DAO Reserve Insists Stablecoin Has Not Depegged

Since June 12, 2022, the Tron-based stablecoin USDD has remained below a U.S. dollar in value. On Monday, USDD had a 24-hour trading range of around $0.943 to $0.966 per unit and the day prior on June 19, USDD saw an all-time low at $0.928 per unit. Despite being below the U.S. dollar parity, the Tron DAO Reserve says the stablecoin has not depegged in a Twitter thread that discusses a combination of an “on-chain mechanism [and] collateralized assets.”

USDD Trades Below $1 for an Entire Week

USDD has been trading for lower than a U.S. dollar for over a week and on Sunday, USDD tapped an all-time low at $0.928 per unit. The following day on Monday, the stablecoin has been exchanging hands for $0.966 at the time of writing, and it saw a 24-hour low at $0.943. USDD is the ninth-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, with approximately $696.28 million on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. (ET). The stablecoin has seen roughly $83 million in global trade volume and the top USDD exchanges on Monday include Kucoin, Huobi Global, Poloniex, and Pancakeswap version two (V2).

To safeguard the overall blockchain industry and crypto market, TRON DAO Reserve have purchased 10,000,000 #USDD on #TRON.

— TRON DAO Reserve (@trondaoreserve) June 20, 2022

The Tron DAO Reserve account on Twitter has been announcing numerous crypto asset purchases to safeguard the crypto ecosystem. On Monday, the Tron DAO Reserve revealed it added ten million USDC to “safeguard the overall blockchain industry and crypto market.” The Tron DAO Reserve web portal indicates that the stablecoin is overcollateralized by 324.35% at the time of writing at 7:20 p.m. (ET). At that time, the website shows there is 1.080 billion USDC in the reserve, 140,013,886 tether (USDT), 14,040.6 bitcoin (BTC), and 10,874,566,176 tron (TRX).

While the stablecoin has been trading for under $1 per unit, the Tron DAO Reserve’s official Twitter account says that the USDD crypto asset has not depegged. “Is USDD depegged?” the Twitter account recently asked. “No. USDD is a decentralized stablecoin that depends on an on-chain mechanism & collateralized assets, unlike centralized stablecoin e.x. USDC, which is attached to USD in a very close spread by banking mint and redemption.” Tron DAO Reserve said that a certain percentage of volatility is “unavoidable.” The USDD treasury organization added:

Currently, the market volatility rate is within +- 3%, an acceptable range. We will watch the market very closely and act accordingly.

Tron DAO Reserve Says USDD Ecosystem Aims to Focus on Collaborations and Multichain Expansion

The Tron DAO Reserve also discussed “massive short positions” that were betting against tron (TRX), the blockchain’s native crypto asset. USDD is not the only stablecoin in the crypto industry that has suffered from a certain percentage of volatility. The decentralized finance (defi) protocol Abracadabra’s stablecoin MIM briefly slid to $0.91 when bitcoin (BTC) slipped to $17,600 per unit two days ago. Since then, Abracadabra’s magic internet money (MIM) has jumped back to the $0.99 range.

Furthermore, the stablecoin neutrino usd (USDN) has been volatile during the market carnage this past week. USDN is a stablecoin crafted by the Waves (WAVES) protocol in a smart contract and minting USDN involves collateralizing WAVES. Like MIM, USDN has managed to come back to the $0.99 range.

As far as USDD is concerned, the Tron DAO Reserve doesn’t seem to be sweating being below the $1 parity. Tron DAO Reserve noted in the recent Twitter thread that it aims to be the top dog of decentralized stablecoins. “We will focus on collaborations with different cefi/defi platforms and multichain expansion. We aim to offer the best decentralized stablecoin ever available in the market,” the Tron DAO Reserve’s Twitter thread concludes.

What do you think about the USDD market this past week? Do you agree with the Tron DAO Reserve’s explanation? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: Abracadabra, Cefi, collateral, defi, Dollar-Pegged, English, justin sun, Magic Internet Money, MIM, multichain, neutrino usd, News, News Bitcoin, overcollateralized, Stablecoin, Tron (TRX), Tron Blockchain, TRON DAO Reserve, trx, TVL, U.S. dollar, USDC, USDD, USDD ecosystem, USDD Stablecoin, USDN, USDT, WAVES

Defi Protocol Abracadabra’s Stablecoin MIM Briefly Slides to $0.91 During the Crypto Market Rout

19/06/2022 by Idelto Editor

Amid the crypto market carnage this weekend, another stablecoin slipped below the $1 peg on Saturday, June 18, as the crypto asset called magic internet money (MIM) briefly dropped to a low of $0.914 per unit. The Abracadabra-issued stablecoin dropping in value follows the recent terrausd (UST) failure and USDD’s recent volatility last week.

Stablecoin Magic Internet Money Loses $1 Parity But Regains Strength After the Fall to $0.91

In mid-May 2022, the entire world witnessed an algorithmic stablecoin called terrausd (UST) depeg from its $1 parity and slide below a U.S. penny in value. In fact, UST’s failure obliterated the entire Terra blockchain ecosystem of tokens until they were near worthless.

Last week, Bitcoin.com News reported on Tron’s algorithmic stablecoin USDD and how it dropped to a low of $0.95 per unit. The Tron Reserve DAO has been adding significant amounts of reserves like USDC and TRX to keep the token overcollaterized.

Despite the funds being added, on June 18, USDD slipped to a low of $0.948 per unit and the crypto token is currently exchanging hands for $0.964 at the time of writing at 6:05 p.m. (ET).

On the same day, the Abracadabra-issued stablecoin magic internet money (MIM) also slipped below the asset’s $1 parity, dropping to a low of $0.914 per unit. By using the protocol Abracadabra.money, users create MIM by adding collateral and today, there’s 197,674,194 MIM in circulation.

MIM is leveraged on various blockchains like Ethereum, Fantom, BSC, and Avalanche. Despite the slide to $0.91, MIM did rebound on Saturday and at 6:05 p.m. (ET), it was trading for $0.992 per unit. The fall below the $1 parity brought MIM a lot of attention during the day, as the “MIM depeg” was a trending subject on social media. The day prior, one Twitter account said that MIM was “about to depeg (yet again) with a 95.8% liquidity imbalance. There’s only $6m of liquidity left in the pool.”

Abracadabra Dispells Insolvency Rumors and Addresses Depegging Incident

Furthermore, Abracadabra published a blog post that addresses “a large number of false Twitter threads.” Abracadabra said that the false information “created extreme volatility that has affected the MIM peg and the MIM-3pool liquidity on Curve Finance.”

“One of the central pieces to the FUD revolves around Abracadabra’s treasury composition,” Abracadabra’s blog post notes. “Our operational treasury, which does not include SPELL tokens, currently owns more than $13.2M in assets (at the time of writing). Roughly half of the treasury is in MIM stablecoin, and the other half is in CRV tokens which are fundamental assets for us to hold.” The decentralized finance (defi) project’s blog post adds:

If you are looking for the exact amounts, the treasury holds 6,619,923.5 MIM and 10,380,153.06 CRV tokens.

Abracadabra’s blog post also asks people with outstanding loans to repay the balance while the peg is low in order to rebalance the MIM-3pool.

“As we write this post, the health of the Curve pool continues to improve and we fully expect the MIM peg to be restored shortly. In addition, we plan to share a more detailed set of dates around when and how repayment will occur,” Abracadabra’s blog post concludes.

In addition to USDD and MIM, the stablecoin neutrino usd (USDN) has been volatile in recent times dropping below $1 parity. While it was trading for $1 at 6:05 p.m. (ET), earlier on Saturday USDN slipped to $0.931 per unit.

What do you think about the stablecoin magic internet money (MIM) depegging on Saturday? What do you think about Abracadabra’s blog post statement? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: $1 Parity, 1, Abracadabra, Abracadabra.money, Altcoins, Curve Pool, depeg, English, Magic Internet Money, MIM, MIM peg, neutrino usd, News Bitcoin, Stablecoin, Stablecoins, Terrausd (UST), tron, USDD, USDN, UST

The Number of Tethers in Circulation Dropped by Over 12 Billion in 2 Months, USDC Grew by 9%

17/06/2022 by Idelto Editor

During the last two months, the stablecoin tether has been one of the most traded crypto assets swapped against a myriad of digital currencies. 66 days ago on April 11, 2022, tether’s market valuation was over $82 billion with 82,694,361,442 tethers in circulation. Since then, more than 12 billion tethers have been removed from circulation amid the Terra blockchain implosion, the recent crypto market carnage, and rumors circulating around Celsius and Three Arrows Capital (3AC).

More Than 12 Billion Tethers Leave the Crypto Economy Since April 11

According to market data, the number of tether (USDT) in circulation has dwindled down from over 82 billion to today’s 70 billion. Bitcoin.com News reported on the swelling stablecoin market valuation of all the fiat-pegged tokens in existence as the stablecoin economy neared $200 billion, on April 11.

On that day, there were approximately 82,694,361,442 tethers in circulation after the dollar-pegged crypto saw a 3% increase in growth the month prior. Since then, 15.30% has been removed from circulation as the circulating supply on June 16, 2022, is 70,038,816,028 USDT, according to coingecko.com metrics.

People have been noticing the number of tethers in circulation dropping, as crypto advocates have been discussing the subject on social media. Much of the USDT in circulation has been removed since the terrausd (UST) de-pegging incident, as there were 82.79 billion tethers in circulation on May 12, 2022.

Two days later on May 14, the number or tethers in circulation was down 7.25% to 76.70 billion USDT, according to coingecko.com stats saved on archive.org. During the course of 33 days, another 8.73% has been removed from circulation since May 14.

USDC’s Market Cap Grows Over the Last 2 Months, Tether Commands Lion’s Share of Global Trade Volume

Meanwhile, tether’s competitor usd coin (USDC) has grown during the last two months. On April 16, 2022, the total amount of USDC in circulation was approximately 50,090,822,252 tokens according to coingecko.com metrics recorded on archive.org. Since then, the number of USDC has grown to 54,582,713,063, or 8.96% larger, during the past two months.

During the terrausd (UST) fiasco, the number of USDC slid to 49,122,170,211 on May 12. The USDC in circulation then grew from the 49.12 billion region to 53,804,005,416 by June 10. USDC saw a slight issuance increase since then. Circle also announced the launch of euro coin (EUROC) backed 1:1 by the euro this month.

Data recorded on June 16 shows that USDT commands the lion’s share of the global cryptocurrency trade volume, as it accounts for $51.41 billion of the $96.31 billion in volume on Thursday. That means 53.37% of all the crypto trades on Thursday have been paired with USDT.

The amount of USDC traded on June 16 pales in comparison, as the stablecoin recorded $5.93 billion or 6.15% of the global crypto trade volume during the last 24 hours. Cryptocompare data recorded on June 16 shows USDT trades accounted for 56% of bitcoin’s (BTC) trade volume. While USDC accounted for 2.77% of all BTC trades on Thursday.

What do you think about the number of tethers in circulation declining? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: $70 billion, 82 billion, Altcoins, Bitcoin, BTC, Circle, Dollars, English, euro coin, EUROC, Global Trade Volume, News Bitcoin, redemption, Stablecoin, stablecoin crypto, Stablecoin Supply, Stablecoin Tokens, Tether, Tether (USDT), Tether in circulation, tethers, usd coin, USDT, UST de-pegging incident

Circle Launches Second Major Stablecoin Backed 1:1 by the Euro

16/06/2022 by Idelto Editor

Circle Launches Second Major Stablecoin Backed 1:1 With the Euro

On Thursday, Circle’s CEO Jeremy Allaire announced that the company has launched a new stablecoin pegged to the value of the euro (EUR). Allaire said that the new EUROC token is now live on the Ethereum network and will be “available to mint and redeem on June 30th.”

Circle Launches EUROC

Circle has announced the launch of the company’s second major fiat-pegged crypto asset called euro coin (EUROC). The announcement stemmed from Circle’s CEO Jeremy Allaire on Thursday who explained that EUROC already has “broad industry support.” Circle also follows the company Tether Limited, which introduced a euro stablecoin called EURT in August 2016. There’s currently €195.99 million worth of Tether’s EURT at the time of writing and roughly $7 million in global trade volume during the past 24 hours. In terms of the stablecoin’s fiat backing, Circle’s new EUROC web portal states:

Designed for stability, Euro Coin is 100% backed by euros held in euro-denominated banking accounts so that it’s always redeemable 1:1 for euros.

Allaire details that the new EUROC is fully regulated and will follow the same compliance framework as USDC. “Like USDC, Euro Coin is being issued under a regulated framework for money transmission, under the same statutes that regulate USDC, with full-reserves in Euro, with the same security, liquidity and transparency that the market has come to expect from Circle,” Allaire wrote on Thursday.

EUROC Already Has Support From Exchanges, Wallets, Custodians, and Defi Apps

The Circle CEO believes a euro-based stablecoin will expand payment opportunities and onchain FX. It will bolster trade finance (tradefi) and commerce as well, Allaire explained in his tweet about the project. EUROC will be accessible to individuals, exchanges, institutional traders, and businesses. Currently, EUROC is supported by Binance US, Bitstamp, FTX, and Huobi Global. In the decentralized finance (defi) world EUROC is also supported by Compound, Curve, DFX, and Uniswap.

Additionally, custodians like Anchorage Digital, CYBAVO, and Fireblocks support the new stablecoin alongside wallets like Metamask Institutional and Ledger Wallet. “Euro Coin will be available to institutional customers via a free Circle Account starting June 30, 2022,” Allaire concluded on Thursday. “Developers can begin integrating with the Euro Coin smart contract today, ahead of the official launch.”

What do you think about the new euro coin (EUROC) stablecoin launched by Circle? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: Altcoins, Circle, Circle CEO, English, Ethereum, euro coin, EUROC, EUROC Launch, EURT, Issued, Jeremy Allaire, launch, Mintable, News Bitcoin, Redeemable, Stablecoin, Stablecoins, Tether, Tether's EURT, USDC

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