Stablecoins
What is a stablecoin?
Stablecoins now settle card payments and bank transfers. This is how they hold their value, who issues them and what the GENIUS Act and MiCA require.
October 5, 2026
Company
Circle
Fintechbits has published 19 articles about Circle since March 2026, most often on stablecoins and crypto and blockchain.
Latest Circle news
The Volante Circle Deal Drops USDC Into Bank Payment Engines
The release describes testing, not production: no bank is named as live and no launch date is given for the USDC workflows.
September 30, 2026
Socure Arc Identity Verification Joins the Circle Blockchain
Socure has put its identity and fraud checks at the Arc Onramp, where users convert fiat into USDC inside apps on Circle’s network. It already serves four of the five largest US crypto exchanges.
September 29, 2026
Binance USDC Pact Comes With a $100 Million Circle Stake
Binance owns a slice of the company whose stablecoin it has agreed to promote for five years. The equity matters less than the distribution, and the distribution is aimed squarely at Tether’s home turf.
September 23, 2026
Figment Wants to Be the Easy Button for Institutions That Do Not Want to Run Their Own Validator
Figment is offering to run Arc validator infrastructure for institutions that want a seat on Circle’s network without building it themselves. It has been a validator on Arc since testnet.
September 23, 2026
Circle Flips the Switch on Arc, Its Bet That Institutions Will Run a Public Blockchain
Arc’s founding validators include BlackRock, Mastercard, Visa, DTCC and ICE. The guest list matters more than the technology to Circle’s pitch that institutions will run a public chain.
September 21, 2026
Block Applies for a National Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin and Stablecoins
Builders Bank & Trust would hold bitcoin and stablecoins under direct OCC supervision without taking deposits or making loans. Block filed the charter application with the OCC.
September 17, 2026
Circle coverage timeline
October 2026
- What is a stablecoin?October 5, 2026
September 2026
- The Volante Circle Deal Drops USDC Into Bank Payment EnginesSeptember 30, 2026 · Partnership
- Socure Arc Identity Verification Joins the Circle BlockchainSeptember 29, 2026 · Partnership
- Binance USDC Pact Comes With a $100 Million Circle StakeSeptember 23, 2026 · Partnership
- Figment Wants to Be the Easy Button for Institutions That Do Not Want to Run Their Own ValidatorSeptember 23, 2026
- Circle Flips the Switch on Arc, Its Bet That Institutions Will Run a Public BlockchainSeptember 21, 2026
- Block Applies for a National Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin and StablecoinsSeptember 17, 2026 · Regulation
- Circle to Acquire Cross-Border Payments Firm TazapaySeptember 17, 2026 · Acquisition
- Circle pairs an AI agent marketplace API with a faster USDC funding railSeptember 16, 2026 · Product launch
- Elliptic Wants to Write the Rulebook for AI Agents Moving CryptoSeptember 11, 2026
August 2026
- Circle Puts USDC on Chelsea Shirts, Betting Brand Awareness Beats Another Product AnnouncementAugust 31, 2026 · Partnership
- Circle Reports Its Federal Bank Charter the Same Day Revenue Growth Slows to 7%August 20, 2026 · Earnings
- Circle Adds a New York Trust Charter to a Regulatory Stack That Already Looked CompleteAugust 11, 2026 · Licence
July 2026
- Tassat Wants to Stop Stablecoin Reserves From Concentrating in a Handful of Big BanksJuly 29, 2026 · Product launch
- Circle Joins Elliptic Effort to Figure Out Compliance for AI Agents That Move MoneyJuly 15, 2026 · Partnership
May 2026
April 2026
- Stablecoin Payments Trends 2026April 5, 2026
Circle on Fintechbits: questions and answers
- What has Fintechbits reported about Circle recently?
- The most recent Fintechbits article about Circle is "What is a stablecoin?", published on 5 October 2026. Before that, Fintechbits published "The Volante Circle Deal Drops USDC Into Bank Payment Engines" (30 September 2026) and "Socure Arc Identity Verification Joins the Circle Blockchain" (29 September 2026).
- What kind of Circle news does Fintechbits cover?
- Of the 19 articles Fintechbits has published about Circle, the most common stories are partnerships (5), product launches (2) and acquisitions (1).
- Which topics does Fintechbits cover Circle under?
- Fintechbits files most of its Circle coverage under stablecoins (14 articles), crypto and blockchain (6 articles) and AI in finance (3 articles).
- Which companies appear most often alongside Circle in Fintechbits coverage?
- Mastercard (3 articles), Tether (3 articles) and BlackRock (2 articles) appear most often in the same Fintechbits articles as Circle.