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Merit Circle has voted to invest $3m and $5m in two secretive projects, codenamed Project Firebrand and...Project Firebrand has a valuation of $80m and is allocating 1.25% of its token to Merit Circle as an...Project Roadslide has a valuation of $40m and is allocating 2% of its token to Merit Circle as an advisor...
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8 Min
DAO
Sep 2022
The Circle story is really easy to grasp....Circle seems to have done a good job of keeping OpEx fairly flat while revenue grew....For context, in 2024, total revenue earned by Circle was about $1.67 bn....As of today, Circle has about $60B in reserves against USDC issued, of which $53B is in Circle’s Reserve...
Alpha Insight
4 Min
Stablecoins
Apr 2025
Circle announced the launch of native USDC on Arbitrum today....Moving forward, users on Arbitrum will be able to mint, redeem, and bridge USDC through Circle’s CCTP...Circle will burn the USDC on L1 and re-issue the USDC on L2. When bridging back, the reverse....There’s no need to wait for fraud proofs because Circle is the source of Truth, not the bridge.
Alpha Insight
2 Min
Cash-Backed (Custodian) Stablecoins
Jun 2023
Circles is a protocol to create a decentralized social currency, without intermediaries....Every user issues their own personal currency $CRC (Circles Credit) and uses it to trade within a trusted...How to get started – Create an account using Metri (your Circles wallet, no seed needed, just a passkey...
Alpha Insight
4 Min
DeFi
Jun 2025
I have Jeremy Allaire, the co-founder chairman of Circle. Jeremy, how’s it going? ...And I think with what we’re doing with Circle, we had a very clear vision early on....We can switch to Circle now that we have your life story. Let’s dive in....I love Circle....Switching back to Circle, you got a whole new set of growth plans now, right?
Media
2 Min
DeFi
Sep 2021
Treasury and Circle freezing USDC in addresses belonging to Tornado Cash users has been the talk of the...Treasury and Circle freezing USDC in addresses belonging to Tornado […]...
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Aug 2022
The Day: USDT Depegs Briefly
USDT and USDC are the top two collateralized stablecoins by Tether and Circle...The Day: USDT Depegs Briefly USDT and USDC are the top two collateralized stablecoins by Tether and Circle...
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8 Min
Stablecoins
May 2022
Around the DAOverse
Circle of Tokens proposes ending liquid SOV emissions for Sovryn....In an unsurprising move, Merit Circle (MIP-16) has voted to fund the development of an NFT marketplace...Unlike other marketplaces, Merit Circle’s marketplace will focus on gaming assets....Around the DAOverse Circle of Tokens proposes ending liquid SOV emissions for Sovryn.
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6 Min
DAO
Jun 2022
Circle announces native USDC support on 5 more blockchains, and unveils a tool to facilitate cross-chain...🚨 In Case You Missed It
Circle announces native USDC support on Arbitrum, Cosmos, NEAR, Optimism...Circle also unveiled a tool to facilitate cross-chain transfers.
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4 Min
NFTs
Sep 2022
The Circle IPO was massively oversubscribed, suggesting strong investor interest in Circle and its potential...Under the IPO terms, lead underwriters priced the deal at $32/share, with Circle raising ~$1.1B at a...Upon trading on the Nasdaq, Circle’s price surged and eventually closed at over $83/share on its first...
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14 Min
Macro & Markets
Jul 2025
Merit Circle
Merit Circle’s total AUM has held up valiantly over time, especially given the drawn out...In this case, Merit Circle’s biggest winner is Big Time land....strategy of Merit Circle investments....future vision for the Merit Circle DAO....Merit Circle’s Game NFT MarketplaceSphere is Merit Circle’s game asset-specific NFT marketplace.
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19 Min
Guilds
Oct 2022
Consequently, with Circle holding $3.3B at SVB, USDC depegged to a low of $0.87 but later repegged to...Circle and Coinbase, the founders of Center Consortium, are responsible for the development and maintenance...Circle boasts large institutional investors such as BlackRock ($10T AUM), Fidelity ($4.5T AUM), and Goldman...
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12 Min
Stablecoins
Apr 2023
Only 1 of the USDCs on either Ethereum Classic or Ethereum would be redeemable at par by Circle....Whichever Circle chooses to support is therefore critical as most protocols and developers will follow...Notable Tweets
Circle Begins Its Monthly Breakdown Of USDC
1/ As part of our commitment to increasing...
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6 Min
Social Media
Jul 2022
Merit Circle announces a recent partnership with Cantina Royale....Merit Circle has voted to start a process that could see the DAO cancel YGG’s and Gabby Dizon’s MC token...The proposer also views YGG is a significant competitor to Merit Circle....a response citing the value they added to the protocol and arguing that their agreement with Merit Circle...
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7 Min
DAO
May 2022
Let’s explore the concept of magic circles, first pioneered by Johan Huizinga way back in his 1938 book...The term magic circle refers to the imaginary boundary between the real world and the game....A game’s magic circle can offer them this haven....Within a magic circle, seemingly mundane actions can take on extraordinary forms due to the remarkable...
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37 Min
Gaming
Jul 2022
Notable Tweets
Circle wants to become a digital currency commercial bank....Circle’s journey to become a national full-reserve digital currency commercial bank: https://t.co/3aNQ0bKPyr...
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4 Min
DeFi
Aug 2021
For example, Circle (USDC) is already issued by regulated financial institutions and is fully backed...Ironically, Circle announced a partnership with Visa the day after the STABLE Act was released whereby...Circle business account holders will soon be able to spend USDC on the Visa merchant network.
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6 Min
DeFi
Dec 2020
To start, let’s explore the concept of magic circles, first pioneered by Johan Huizinga way back in his...The term magic circle refers to the imaginary boundary between the real world and the game....A game’s magic circle can offer them this haven....Within a magic circle, seemingly mundane actions can take on extraordinary forms due to the remarkable...
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6 Min
NFT Marketplace
Jul 2022
Circle froze $75,000 of USDC linked to addresses sanctioned by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control...FTX and Circle confirmed they will only support the Proof-of-Stake version of Ethereum after the final...
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4 Min
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Aug 2022
Recently, a shift back toward pure equity has emerged post-Circle’s IPO....The Path to Public Markets & The Circle Catalyst
Circle’s June 5, 2025 NASDAQ IPO, the first major...Circle’s IPO was eventually priced at $31 (or about $6.8 B valuation)....Source: SecondLane
Sellers who exited via secondary markets in the months before Circle’s IPO missed...
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14 Min
Financial Market Themes
Aug 2025