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Odaily News: Circle Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Circle Internet Group, has announced the launch of two grant programs in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore the use of regulated stablecoins and digital financial infrastructure for international development and humanitarian aid payments.Circle Foundation will fund UNDP in establishing a Digital Asset Innovation Pool to support its country offices in scaling regulated stablecoin payments from local pilots to full project delivery. The mechanism is designed to complement traditional banking systems.Another grant awarded to World Food Program USA will support WFP in building governance, risk, compliance, and fund reconciliation frameworks for digital asset distribution. WFP plans to test stablecoin payment channels in 2 to 3 countries over the next three years and conduct independent research to establish benchmarks for speed, efficiency, and cost. (Bitcoin.com News)
Bank payment infrastructure provider Volante Technologies and Circle have announced a strategic partnership to integrate USDC-related payment and settlement processes into Volante's bank payment platform, enabling financial institutions to evaluate stablecoin applications within their existing payment infrastructure without building a separate digital asset system. Supported processes include USDC minting and redemption, receiving wallet registration, fund transfers, and wallet-to-wallet payments. Volante's clients include 4 of the world's top 5 corporate banks and 7 of the top 10 U.S. banks. Both parties stated that the partnership aims to help banks move stablecoins from the experimental stage to practical payment and settlement applications.
Odaily News: Coinbase tokenized stocks are now live on the Base deployment of Aave V4. Eligible users in jurisdictions outside the United States can use AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc, and TSLAc as collateral to borrow USDC. This V4 instance was deployed by Aave Labs on behalf of the Aave DAO, with risk analysis conducted by LlamaRisk. Chainlink, as Coinbase's official oracle solution, provides price data for the tokenized stocks, including underlying stock prices and issuer multipliers.
LayerZero has announced that due to low activity on certain blockchains, it will gradually cease providing off-chain support for them, and affected chains will no longer be able to use LayerZero's Decentralized Verification Networks (DVNs) and executor services. In the next 30 days, Aurora, Taiko, Japan Open Chain, LightLink, Viction, Animechain, XPLA, Merlin, Gnosis, Zora, Otherworld Space, XAI, and opBNB will be affected. Some chains will also lose Stargate Hydra support, and Stargate users should redeem their Hydra assets from these chains, including USDC.e, wETH, and Hydra USDT.
Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Coinbase has launched fixed-rate, fixed-term USDC loans backed by Bitcoin through Morpho Midnight, allowing borrowers to obtain USDC without selling their Bitcoin.The interest rate and repayment date for this product are determined at the start of the loan; if the borrower fails to repay the USDC and interest by the maturity date, the collateralized Bitcoin may be liquidated. Coinbase's existing floating-rate Bitcoin-backed loans powered by Morpho have surpassed $1.4 billion in active or outstanding loan volume, with collateral value of approximately $3 billion.
Circle Foundation announced its support for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to advance digital payment infrastructure, exploring how to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and financial accessibility of funding disbursement for development projects and humanitarian aid through regulated stablecoins. Specifically, Circle Foundation will fund UNDP’s establishment and operation of the Digital Asset Innovation Pool, facilitating the deployment of regulated payment stablecoins from pilot projects into standard programs. Previously, UNDP has tested solutions such as digital cash payments, fund disbursement in low-connectivity environments, and mobile wallets in locations including Aleppo, Syria; Haiti; Guatemala; and Gambia. Circle Foundation will also provide an additional grant to World Food Program USA to support WFP in building the governance, risk management, fund management, reconciliation, and compliance systems required for stablecoin payments, alongside integration into local fintech and mobile payment networks. Over the next three years, WFP plans to pilot stablecoin payments across payment channels in two to three countries to evaluate their costs, speed, transparency, and operational feasibility.
Odaily News: Aave V4 has launched Equities Hub on Base, allowing eligible non-US users to borrow USDC using 7 tokenized US stocks issued by Coinbase as collateral, covering Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. The market uses Chainlink to provide on-chain price data for tokenized stocks. The initial combined collateral cap for the 7 stocks is approximately $29 million, with a USDC supply cap of $32 million and a borrow cap of $21 million. Collateral ratios for different stocks range from 65% to 79%. Currently, these stocks can only be used as collateral. Aave stated that more Coinbase tokenized stocks and GHO as borrowable assets may be added in the future after governance and risk assessment approvals. (The Block)
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen posted a 12-hour progress report on the security incident on X, including:1. Affected assets include ETH, XRP (largest single-chain loss), BNB, AVAX, USDT, USDC, and other tokens. Affected chains include: Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, BSC, and Base. All on-chain cold wallets have been confirmed secure and unaffected.2. All foundations of the affected chains have been contacted, and some foundations have confirmed the freezing of the hacker's wallet addresses.3. Based on IP behavioral characteristics and on-chain analysis, the attack methodology is highly consistent with known patterns of North Korean hacker groups. Relevant authorities have been notified, and full cooperation is being provided for a global investigation.4. Bitget Wallet (decentralized wallet) operates completely independently from Bitget exchange infrastructure, and this incident has no impact on it. Bitget Wallet assets are completely safe.5. Transparent disclosure regarding the platform's financial status: In addition to over $464 million in protection funds (all held in publicly verifiable wallet addresses), Bitget's own assets exceed $1 billion. User funds are covered at a 1:1 ratio, and all data can be verified on-chain.6. Regarding withdrawal recovery timing: The goal is to achieve full recovery as soon as possible. Once a specific time window is confirmed, an announcement will be made immediately. No commitment will be made to timelines that cannot be fulfilled.
Odaily News: Aerodrome's Slipstream V3 has gone live, introducing protocol-level internal MEV auctions to its concentrated liquidity AMM. The upgrade redistributes value captured by sandwich bots and arbitrageurs to active liquidity providers and sAERO holders, with the protocol expected to generate tens of millions of dollars in related revenue. This version also introduces dynamic fees that automatically increase when market volatility intensifies, and retains Uniswap V3's concentrated liquidity design, achieving capital efficiency up to 4,000 times that of traditional AMMs. Aero plans to merge Aerodrome on Base and Velodrome on Optimism into a single AERO token, and to launch on Ethereum mainnet in Q2 2026. Aero Lite has already launched Slipstream pools on Circle's Arc, and Dromos Labs is developing pool-level fee rebates and KYC options for institutional clients.
According to PR Newswire, Bitcoin application layer platform Citrea has announced the acquisition of Crest, a self-custody private Bitcoin wallet. Backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, Citrea states the acquisition aims to bring Zcash-style zero-knowledge privacy pools into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Crest founder Meliksah Gurtemel will join Citrea as head of product. Over the next few weeks, Crest will launch a Bitcoin mobile wallet supporting automatic shielding, private BTC transfers, and cross-chain private payments (enabling BTC to be privately swapped for USDC or ETH for payments to EVM addresses). Citrea co-founder and CEO Orkun Mahir Kılıç noted that addressing Bitcoin privacy represents the largest breakthrough for Bitcoin layers to meet genuine user demand, with Crest serving as the primary gateway for both users and liquidity flowing into Citrea.
Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal posted to detail the integration progress following the acquisition of crypto options trading platform Deribit, stating that the joint integration efforts are "proceeding well overall." To date, multiple milestones have been achieved, including: the launch of over 100 new USDC-settled contracts across five market sectors, covering pre-IPO perpetuals, marking the largest expansion of perpetual contracts in Deribit's history; the first-time listing of equities and ETFs for trading as perpetual contracts; the introduction of a new matching engine to upgrade core trading infrastructure, enabling faster and more stable execution under high volumes while preserving the existing user experience; and the integration of Coinbase spot liquidity into Deribit spot trading. Shan Aggarwal added that significant work remains ahead in the platform integration process, with additional phased milestones to be announced subsequently.
Binance will list Hyperliquid (HYPE) on September 24, 2026 at 19:00 (UTC+8), opening spot trading pairs for HYPE/USDT, HYPE/USDC, and HYPE/TRY. Deposits will open one hour after the announcement is published, with withdrawals expected to go live on September 25 at 19:00. A seed tag will be added to HYPE, spot algorithmic orders will be supported simultaneously, and trading bots and spot copy trading are expected to be enabled within 24 hours after listing.
Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire, in a post on X citing Arc Chain's official tweet, stated that one week after Arc Chain's launch, on-chain assets (USDC and cirCTC) have surged from zero to $700 million, while USDC transaction volume has surpassed $7 billion.
Odaily News: Coinbase has launched fixed-rate loans powered by the decentralized lending protocol Morpho, allowing users to borrow USDC against bitcoin and lock in the interest rate and repayment date at the start of the loan.This product marks the first enterprise-grade deployment of Morpho Midnight, with Coinbase handling the application experience, Morpho providing the credit infrastructure, and the Base network handling settlement.Coinbase's existing Morpho floating-rate loans have surpassed $1.4 billion in active volume, corresponding to approximately $3 billion in collateral. The business launched bitcoin-collateralized lending in early 2025 and later expanded collateral to assets such as XRP and Dogecoin. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Citrea has announced the acquisition of self-custodial privacy Bitcoin wallet Crest. Crest will become Citrea's flagship privacy product, and its founder Meliksah Gurtemel will join Citrea as Head of Product. Citrea stated that in the coming weeks, Crest will launch a Bitcoin mobile wallet supporting automatic privacy protection, private BTC transfers, and cross-chain access from Bitcoin and Ethereum. It also plans to support private cross-chain swaps and exit paths, enabling users to privately pay USDC or ETH to EVM addresses using privacy BTC.
Odaily News: Visa has released its "Money Travels 2026" report, based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, showing that if stablecoins were equipped with bank-grade fraud protection and deposit insurance, consumer willingness to use them would rise from 36% to 56%; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness would also increase to 45%. The survey also found that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, and 64% of respondents had greater trust in payment providers than in the technology itself. Currently, the total global supply of USD-pegged stablecoins has exceeded $295 billion, with USDT at approximately $183.4 billion and USDC at approximately $76 billion; Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed $20 billion, representing more than a 15-fold increase from a year ago. (The Block)
According to The Block, Visa released its Money Travels 2026 report. Based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, consumer willingness to use stablecoins would rise from 36% to 56% if they feature bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness could also reach 45%. The survey also indicates that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, while 64% trust payment providers more than the technology itself. Currently, the global total supply of USD-pegged stablecoins exceeds $295 billion, comprising approximately $183.4 billion in USDT and around $76 billion in USDC. Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has already surpassed $20 billion, representing an increase of over 15 times compared to a year ago.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that REX Shares and Tuttle Capital listed the T-REX 2X Long ASST Daily Target ETF on Cboe on Friday under the ticker ASSX. The fund aims to deliver 200% of the daily price movement of Strive's stock, resetting daily, and does not hold Bitcoin or track the price of Bitcoin. Strive holds 25,000 BTC, making it the fifth-largest Bitcoin holder among public companies, with its latest purchase of 469 BTC funded by SATA preferred shares; both issuers have previously launched 2x leveraged products tied to Strategy, BitMine, Cipher Mining, Circle, and SharpLink.
Odaily report: NEAR has been listed on the Hyperliquid spot market, allowing users to trade the NEAR/USDC trading pair. According to the Hyperliquid process, it will take several more days for NEAR to appear in the Strict List on the platform interface.
Arc officially announced that Circle's onchain FX engine StableFX is now live on the Arc mainnet. Arc is a public chain launched by Circle, designed for stablecoins and payment use cases; StableFX supports 24/7 settlement, enabling near-instant or delayed settlement, ensuring that both parties either receive funds simultaneously or neither receives funds, and supports trading with multiple vetted counterparties through a single contract, using a unified RFQ model for pricing. The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly $10 trillion, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours.