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The stablecoin giant breaks down where every revenue dollar goes as competition from fee-free rivals heats up. Running a compliant stablecoin turns out to be an expensive business. Circle, the issuer of USDC, disclosed that for the first half of 2026 it retained just 7 cents of.

Broadcom Inc. logo (public domain, Wikimedia Commons) Verizon, CoreWeave and seven others used an SEC opt-out window to keep their shares off the OKX and ICE joint venture's token platform OKXICE wanted to put 63 US stocks onchain. Nine of the companies behind those stocks have.

Coinbase, Circle’s largest USDC partner, also backs Open USD, a rival network that passes reserve income to partners after a management fee.

Every stablecoin card purchase sends money through a chain of businesses most customers never see. Someone paying for lunch with a stablecoin card doesn't need the restaurant to know what USDC is. The card works like any other at the terminal, with the customer's digital dollar.

A new Bank for International Settlements study suggests higher deposit rates pull money away from stablecoins, with USDC feeling it most Banks have a weapon against stablecoins, and it isn’t a lobbying budget. It’s the interest rate on your savings account. A new working paper.

Banks may be able to slow the growth of stablecoins like USDT and USDC by paying savers more, according to a working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Researchers Rashad Ahmed and Iñaki Aldasoro studied weekly data from January 2019 to June 2025,.

Circle’s Allaire says company seeks to enter 40 developing markets