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Money Moves

Froze $823 million of stolen USDC

Binance says the thieves who took $6.34 billion on October 29 spent months working their way in. The trail runs from a tampered Homebrew installer downloaded in June, through a fake job interview in September whose coding exercise hid malware, to an internal AI tool the attackers used to reach engineers' machines.

Updated 15 minutes ago

Rule Changes

Issues USDC globally, including via its French subsidiary

The European Banking Authority named Circle's USDC the first 'significant' e-money token in the European Union on October 14. It's the first of 45 stablecoins notified under MiCA, the EU's crypto-asset rulebook, to clear that designation bar.

Updated Oct 18

Money Moves

As of September 2026: Strategic investor in Velocity

Visa, Circle, and Ripple each invested in Velocity, a London startup letting businesses use stablecoins without replacing their banking systems. The $10 million extension brings Velocity's Series A to $48 million at a $200 million valuation.

Updated Sep 19