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Shenchao Overview: Over the past few years, Circle has done just one thing: bring USDC to where users already are. Now, it’s entering the Layer 1 space itself, not betting on stealing liquidity from Ethereum or Solana, but aiming to create markets that don’t yet exist: stablecoin foreign exchange, institutional private finance, and autonomous agent…

Circle’s CRCL$82.66·Market Closed Arc blockchain went live Wednesday with BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and DTCC among 11 founding validators, and CEO Jeremy Allaire calling it the most significant launch in the company’s history since $USDC itself.

VerifyMe, Inc. (VRME) is urging shareholders to vote “FOR” Proposal 6, the Blockchain Common Stock Proposal, at the September 24, 2026 Annual Meeting.

Circle switched on the public mainnet of Arc, its Layer 1 blockchain, on Wednesday, and said it had minted the entire opening supply of 10 billion ARC tokens in the U.S. this week. The company announced the launch with more than 100 applications running and more than 100 institutional and ecosystem partners live from day…

Kieran Warwick co-founded Illuvium, an Australian gaming company developing blockchain-based games that incorporate digital asset ownership. The company has worked on combining traditional gaming experiences with blockchain technology, allowing players to own and trade certain in-game assets. Its development has taken place during a period of debate and changing interest around blockchain applications in gaming.

Every search for the next crypto to explode leads to a list of coins that already ran. The names change, the pattern stays: by the time a project lands on a ranked list, the early money is gone. On September 14, the UAE picked Avalanche to run its national ID platform for 12.5 million people,…

The cryptocurrency news this week keeps coming back to one thing: who is building, and who is just talking. India’s SEBI launched a pilot on September 14 to issue bonds as blockchain tokens. Three firms raised $107 million in the first round, per InvestingNews. The Fed meets today, September 16, with an 88% chance of…

Intelligence agencies are already harvesting encrypted blockchain data with plans to crack it open once quantum computers mature — and every transaction you’ve ever made sits on a public ledger, waiting. The good news: defending against quantum attacks doesn’t require quantum hardware at all, just smarter math that runs on today’s computers. Here’s what the…

In this episode, Scott Melker discusses Circle Internet Group (CRCL) launching Arc, its new blockchain. “The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker” airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto.

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