Congratulations to CCI member @Circle on final @USOCC approval to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. Federal oversight of Circle’s trust bank sets a new standard for transparency & institutional-grade infrastructure. This is a major milestone for our industry.
Today is a historic day for Circle, and I think symbolic of a much bigger evolution in the architecture of the emerging internet financial system.
Circle has received final approval from the OCC to operate as a national trust bank. We have been granted a charter for First National Digital Currency Bank, NA.
Over 10 years ago, as we were forging the concepts of Circle, we believed a new kind of national bank would ultimately be needed to issue full-reserve dollar digital currency. This was before USDC even existed. The vision was clear: a new base layer of money on the internet would be necessary, and for it to reach widespread use, it needed to operate under national banking supervision.
Years later, after launching USDC and achieving strong product-market fit, I wrote that we sought a charter for a full-reserve digital currency bank. Then, through a half-decade of work with policymakers and regulators, we saw the GENIUS Act codify into federal banking law a framework for these safe, efficient, and technologically superior digital dollars.
Launching and operating as Circle National Trust, we will offer custodial services for digital assets, including stablecoins and other tokenized assets, held to the highest standards afforded under Federal national trust bank supervision.
As the GENIUS Act approaches full implementation in early 2027, we are now poised not only to be supervised by the OCC, as required by law, but to bring critical components of USDC's operation and reserves into this structure.
This is all part of building a new fundamental money layer for the internet. A layer that can scale from an AI agent paying another AI agent in fractions of a second for fractions of a cent, to retail transactions, to investments, trading and lending, to the largest wholesale transactions between global systemically important institutions. All of this needs a form of money and regulated infrastructure that can support the entirety of this new internet-native economic system.
A new architecture for money on the internet has arrived. It is now being hardened into an edifice the world can trust and build on. We are thrilled to be the first of a new cohort of firms establishing this kind of banking infrastructure.
Jeremy
Circle 🤝 Standard Chartered
@StanChart has launched institutional USDC minting and redemption through DIFC, becoming the first G-SIB to offer institutional access to USDC through a regulated banking channel.
A major milestone for institutional stablecoin adoption.
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fxSAVE TVL just crossed $40M.
Over 3.9% APY. No token emissions. No off-chain wrappers.
Fees from fxUSD issuance. Yield from reserves. Compounded back into more stables.
Yield that comes from somewhere.
Congratulations to our Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Jeremy Allaire, on being honored as one of @TIME’s Most Influential People of the year at tonight’s TIME100 Gala.
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I built a CMO agent on AethirClaw (thanks @AethirCloud!) - and walk you through the entire process below
Few tips from the build:
→ Found a great Twitter API provider for non-technical users. $10 gets you more than enough credits to last a long time.
→ Used RSS feeds to pull live data from Hacker News and Reddit - completely free.
→ Youtube transcripts are a goldmine.
→ Everything you see in the video was generated in a single shot by the AI.
One thing I'll be honest about: don't just ship what the agent gives you raw.
The real value comes when you treat the output as a first draft and put in the work to refine.
The better your inputs and the more you iterate on the reports, the sharper the results get.
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There is only one $BEAM.
https://t.co/EkZBT4PiRW
We're tiressly working in front of and behind the scenes to drive value towards the one token that empowers the entire Beam ecosystem. We've learned our lessons over time, and continue to strive for constistency and longevity above anything else.
cirBTC is coming. We are bringing the same infra that supports USDC, EURC and USYC to the largest digital asset, creating a neutral infrastructure for new applications for onchain BTC. Read more below.
Introducing Aethir Claw
Easy AI agent deployment. Powered by Aethir's decentralized GPU cloud.
✅ Fully isolated VPS
✅ No third-party cloud middlemen.
✅ Fiat + crypto payments
✅ Model-as-a-Service coming soon
✅ Crypto-native skills incoming
Alpha launches March 25. Your AI agent, our infrastructure.
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It's been a while since we gave you a proper update on @TrialXtreme and Gameplay Galaxy.
Here we go. 🏍
The numbers speak for themselves:
🔢 2M+ game downloads while still limited to a handful of countries
🏁 40M+ races completed
🤸 27M+ backflips performed
That's a deeply engaged player base, and it's only growing.
-- Where things stand
TXF is live in soft launch across Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. A global launch is being targeted for Q2, with final confirmations still in the works.
Meanwhile, Gameplay Galaxy, the studio behind TXF, is evolving into a full multi-game mobile studio. They've recently brought DUELS into the ecosystem, a fast-paced medieval PvP game with deep RPG mechanics that was recognized as Apple's App of the Day.
-- The bigger picture
Gameplay Galaxy's approach is gaming-First, web3-Second. Token and NFT utility is being built across TXF, DUELS, and future titles, designed to enhance gameplay, not overshadow it. Tens of thousands of daily active users are already there. That number should grow significantly around the global web3 rollout.
circle ($CRCL) crashed to $61 on CLARITY Act fears in march, now back above $90. ARK loaded $16.3m across three ETFs on the dip. bernstein raised target to $191. the part nobody is pricing: 98.6% of all AI agent payment volume settles in USDC. 15m onchain agent transactions in 2026 so far. circle launched nanopayments enabling gas-free transfers down to $0.000001 for machine-to-machine commerce. AWS published x402 reference implementations on base. USDC isn't just a stablecoin anymore, it's becoming the default API payment layer for autonomous systems. august 2026 coinbase revenue share renegotiation is the next binary catalyst for margins
A single swap losing nearly $50M to slippage is an insane headline, but slippage has quietly drained more value from onchain participants than most people track.
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