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On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Two Prime Founder and CEO Alex Blume to discuss Bitcoin's range-bound price action, Strategy's accelerating Bitcoin sell-off, and why he's skeptical of the stablecoin consortium behind OpenUSD that knocked Circle lower. In a taped interview from the NYSE floor, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo breaks down the company's NYSE debut under the ticker SECZ via a SPAC deal, its more than $400 million raise, and its move to tokenize its own common stock on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. Plus, Lumida CEO Ram Ahluwalia makes sense of the macro picture — from MicroStrategy's shift from Bitcoin's marginal buyer to marginal seller and the bull case for Hyperliquid, to why he sees non-farm payrolls as "noise" under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp.

A consortium backed by companies including BlackRock, Google and Coinbase said Tuesday that it is launching a stablecoin. Called Open USD, the new dollar-backed stablecoin is slated to be offered later this year on the Coinbase-affiliated blockchain Base, as well as on Solana and other networks.

Bank of New York Mellon, the nation’s oldest bank, said it will soon allow institutional customers to store, transfer, mint and burn Circle Internet Group’s USDC stablecoin. Slated to go live by the end of July, the new capability makes it easier for BNY customers holding USDC in their digital-asset wallets to convert dollars into stablecoins and redeem stablecoins for dollars. BNY already safeguards the majority of the dollar reserves backing USDC, the second-largest stablecoin with a market cap of $74 billion.

The Fed's anti-money laundering rules could strengthen Circle's core business.

The largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange just got another nod from one of the oldest American banks. Recently, the Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) reiterated its rating and its price target for Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN). Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong, Coinbase was listed ...

Telcoin launched the first US onchain bank account tied to a regulated bank-issued stablecoin. Unlike Circle and Ripple, Telcoin operates under a full bank charter ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the institution that serves as a bank for the world's central banks, has delivered a pointed assessment of the booming stablecoin market in its 2026 Annual Economic Report. Crypto's most widely used dollar tokens, it argues, borrow the ...

Since its launch in 2020, Polymarket has grown into the world's largest prediction market. The platform lets traders predict events, from future Bitcoin prices and election results to government shutdowns, using cryptocurrency as collateral. Traders can deposit Circle's USDC ...

A Wall Street analyst is making a bold call on Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL). Circle is best known as the company behind the world's second-largest stablecoin, USDC, and one of the most heavily oversubscribed crypto initial public offerings of 2025. Circle debuted on the New York Stock ...

Blockchain analytics firm Arkham flagged Circle's (NYSE: CRCL) largest USDC transaction ever. Circle is a financial technology company best known as the issuer of USDC, the world's second-largest stablecoin. A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady $1 value, backed by ...

On June 1, Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), formerly MicroStrategy, announced the sale of 32 Bitcoin (BTC) that it conducted last week. With 843,706 BTC on its balance sheet, the company is still the largest Bitcoin treasury company. But this instance was its first Bitcoin sale in years, sending ...

Investing.com -- Bitcoin dropped to its lowest level in nearly four months Thursday, weighed down by a combination of geopolitical anxiety, persistent institutional selling, and Strategy’s first Bitcoin sale in years.

The US Senate has returned from recess with the Digital Asset Clarity Act at the top of the legislative calendar, and the bill’s most consequential provision is not market structure-it is the explicit prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a retail Central Bank Digital Currency. That CBDC block, if enacted, ...

In 2025, several crypto companies made their public debut amid the market rally. The stablecoin giant Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the institution-focused crypto exchange Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), and the Gemini crypto exchange (Nasdaq: GEMI) executed their initial ...

2025 was the year of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the digital assets industry amid a market boom. Several leading cryptocurrency companies like the Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), and Gemini (Nasdaq: GEMI) made their public debut in 2025. However, the crypto ...

90-year-old bank Morgan Stanley has revamped the price target for Circle Internet (NYSE: CRCL). The boost from analyst James Faucette was based on higher yield assumptions and a revenue tailwind from the Arc token presale. The revised estimates took into consideration approximately $222 ...

SpaceX will be the talk of the town for weeks to come, with its IPO reflecting the largest in history.

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing the Federal Reserve to review granting crypto f...

Crypto is moving deeper into the US financial system as Washington debates how far digital asset companies should be allowed to operate like traditional banks without becoming banks themselves. A growing number of crypto companies have secured or applied for federal trust bank charters in recent ...

Traders are trimming riskier assets as Middle East tensions, rising yields, and inflation concerns cool tech enthusiasm, today, May 18, 2026.

Analyst Mike Colonnese of H.C. Wainwright upgraded Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) on May 18. The revamp is due to the ARC token presale, announced on May 11 during Circle's first quarter 2026 earnings call. ARC is the native utility token for Arc, Circle's Layer 1 blockchain network. As ...

(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin weakened to its lowest level in more than two weeks as broad macro risks stemming from the US-Iran war prompted traders to cut back their positions.Most Read from BloombergUS and Iran Far From Deal as Bond Rout Piles Pressure on TrumpWinners and Losers From Trump and Xi’s Beijing Summit TalksBillionaire Rinehart Bets $100 Million on US Defense StocksHormuz Oil Flows Creep Higher as More Supertankers ExitUS, Iran Stall on Hormuz Reopening as Oil Supplies TightenThe original

Hedge fund Tiger Global Management ‌said it initiated ‌new positions in an ​array of stocks including Intel and Robinhood Markets ‌during the ⁠first quarter of 2026, according ⁠to its most recent 13-F ​filing ​with ​the U.S. ‌Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The hedge fund also said it liquidated ‌stakes in ​companies such ​as ​Circle Internet ‌Group and Workday, ​while ​reducing its holdings of Microsoft ​and ‌Apollo Global Management. (Suzanne ​McGee in Providence, ​Rhode Island)

Crypto wallet provider Ledger has paused its plans to go public in the U.S., citing difficult market conditions.&nb...

Ledger has shelved plans for a New York public listing that had been reported at a valuation above $4 billion, with a private capital raise still on the table.

A major Wall Street bull added to one of the market’s hottest trades, even after the stock had already surged sharply following earnings. Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle climbed to their highest level since March this week, as investors looked past a revenue miss and focused instead on explosive ...

Circle is on a tear.

Circle Internet Group Inc (CRCL) reports significant growth in USDC circulation and on-chain transactions, while navigating regulatory uncertainties and rising costs.

Earlier this morning, we posted our earnings press release and earnings presentation on the Circle Investor Relations website, investor.circle.com. Non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for GAAP measures.

Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) reported first-quarter 2026 results that showed higher revenue, adjusted EBITDA growth and continued expansion in USDC transaction activity, while management emphasized new product launches tied to stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure and AI agents. Co-founder, C