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Circle announced that it will stop supporting USDC and CCTP V1 on the Noble blockchain, and Noble will not connect to CCTP V2. Starting from October 13, 2026, Circle Mint will cease minting new USDC on Noble, while redemptions will remain open until January 12, 2027.Thereafter, the USDC contracts and CCTP routing on Noble will be fully suspended. Circle advises users to migrate their USDC on Noble to other supported networks before the deadline and will take a snapshot of the remaining balances at the time of suspension, initiating a manual redemption process on January 13, 2027.

According to Token Terminal data, the tokenized U.S. Treasury product USYC (under Circle) has increased its market value by 2 billion dollars in the past year, ranking first among similar assets; iBENJI and USDY follow closely, with increases of 1.7 billion dollars and 1.5 billion dollars, respectively. BlackRock's BUIDL grew by 552.5 million dollars during the same period, ranking fifth.

ARK Invest crypto analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that stablecoins have a significant network effect. Although there are thousands of stablecoins in the market, as the market capitalization threshold increases, the number of tiers is rapidly leveling off. Currently, the stablecoins that are truly worth paying attention to are those with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars, gradually moving towards the 100 billion and 500 billion dollar levels.Data shows that the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 1 billion dollars has only increased from single digits to the current 12 since 2021, while the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars has actually decreased from its peak in 2022, with only Tether and Circle's stablecoins remaining. Valente believes that entering the 10 billion dollar market capitalization club has become very difficult, and in the future, the 100 billion dollar level stablecoins may only have two competitors for a long time, while it may take more than two years for only one to reach the 500 billion dollar level.

Circle's blockchain Arc tweeted that the transaction memo feature is now available on the testnet.Developers can attach structured context to a single contract call without modifying the existing contract. Applicable scenarios include invoice numbers, payment reference numbers, customer IDs, and reconciliation tracking.

Since this week, the on-chain market driven by Robinhood has temporarily cooled down, with mainstream cryptocurrencies experiencing a pullback. The market is pinning its hopes for the next round of activity on the Arc Chain, which will launch on September 16.Arc Chain, developed by the stablecoin issuer Circle, is an open blockchain network primarily aimed at institutional users. There are differing opinions in the market regarding whether it will support the crypto-native meme coin culture. Platforms such as OpenSea and fomo have announced that they will support Arc Chain as soon as possible. In response to the fomo launch announcement, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire has made a positive statement.

The Block Research released a report on September 8, stating that during the period from October 2025 to August 2026, Bitcoin fell by over 50% and the total cryptocurrency market value decreased by over $2 trillion, while the total supply of stablecoins remained around $290 billion, with about 90% issued by Tether and Circle.In the past 365 days, the transaction volume of stablecoins exceeded $90 trillion, more than doubling compared to 2025. The daily turnover rate increased from 0.38 times in August 2024 to 0.78 times in August 2026. Ethereum holds about $147 billion (turnover rate 0.51 times/day), Base holds $4.5 billion (16.7 times/day), Solana about $13 billion (1.08 times/day), and Tron over $90 billion (0.25 times/day). The Bank for International Settlements statistics indicate that the stablecoin transaction volume in 2025 was about $35 trillion, with payment-related transactions accounting for 1.1%. Chainalysis data shows that in 2025, illegal addresses received at least $154 billion in stablecoins.The GENIUS Act was signed in July 2025. In April 2026, FinCEN and OFAC jointly proposed to classify payment stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act, and in August, the Treasury proposed a definition to clarify the scope of applicability, which is still a proposal. Companies such as Paxos, zerohash, Rain, and Altitude describe a shift from one-time KYC at onboarding to continuous lifecycle monitoring of on-chain behavior, counterparties, turnover rates, and geographic locations.

According to official news, the Circle Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) now supports a fast transfer prepayment fee feature. Previously, the protocol fee would be directly deducted from the USDC transfer amount on the target chain; with this update, developers can pre-quote and collect fees using the native Gas token or USDC from the source chain before executing the transfer, thereby simplifying the fee handling for cross-chain transfers and ensuring that users receive the expected amount of USDC.It is reported that the prepayment fee mechanism mainly improves the predictability of fees in cross-chain applications. Users do not have to bear the reduction in the actual amount received due to additional deductions on the target chain; at the same time, the CCTP Quote API can uniformly calculate fees for different supported chains and integrate Fast Transfer and Forwarding fees into a single quote, so developers do not need to build systems to separately calculate multiple protocol fees. In addition, fees can be paid directly using the native token of the source chain, which will not reduce or affect the actual transferred USDC balance.Currently, the prepayment fee feature supports USDC transfers on all EVM chains covered by CCTP, but it does not support transfers initiated from Solana; transfers to Solana are still supported. Developers can obtain specific fee quotes through the Quote API and integrate this feature, and relevant developers can refer to the CCTP official documentation to build a more predictable cross-chain USDC transfer process.

Circle announced that it has signed a final agreement to acquire Tazapay, a B2B cross-border payment infrastructure company headquartered in Singapore. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, including approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.Tazapay has an annualized payment volume of over $25 billion, more than 60 banking and fintech partners, and local payment channels covering over 100 markets. Approximately 60% of Tazapay's transaction volume includes stablecoins.

According to data released by SolanaFloor, Circle has minted approximately 3 billion USDC on the Solana chain in the past 24 hours.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire posted on X that over 1% of CRCL is held in the form of tokenized stock, amounting to over $280 million, more than any other publicly listed company in the world.

Circle President and former CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert stated at a hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that the GENIUS Act has established a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, equivalent to building a "dollar layer" for the internet financial system. He urged Congress to next pass the CLARITY Act to complete the long-term regulatory framework for the "market layer" of digital assets.In addition, Tarbert also urged that the final implementation rules of the GENIUS Act should close the regulatory arbitrage space for offshore stablecoins, requiring intermediary institutions that actually serve U.S. customers to be subject to corresponding restrictions, and ensuring that foreign stablecoin issuers meet truly comparable regulatory standards.

Alea Research published that Sky, BlackRock, and Circle together account for half of the yield-bearing stablecoin market. There are a total of 26 products in the market, with a total scale of $21.43 billion.The top three are sUSDS (23.8%), BUIDL (16.7%), and USYC (12.7%), which together account for 53.1%, while the remaining 23 products share the rest of the market.

According to a report from Circle's official blog, Circle's cross-chain infrastructure CCTP has officially expanded to support the native cross-chain transfer of the euro stablecoin EURC.EURC adopts the same "burn-mint" model as USDC, with the first phase supporting cross-chain settlement between Ethereum and Base chains. Developers can transfer both USDC and EURC through a unified interface without needing to connect to multiple bridging service providers, effectively reducing integration complexity and enhancing liquidity efficiency. EURC is issued by Circle's regulated subsidiary, and CCTP does not hold or manage user assets.

Stablecoin issuer Circle and cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced a partnership to jointly expand the liquidity and trading utility of USDC on the OKX platform.This collaboration supports broader access to USDC-denominated markets, covering spot, margin, and futures trading. Circle stated that as the digital asset market expands, trusted dollar stablecoin liquidity becomes a core trading infrastructure, providing eligible users with more ways to trade using USDC.

According to The Block, Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased $37.4 million worth of Block Inc. stock and $3.4 million worth of Circle stock on Monday. On the same day, Block Inc.'s stock price fell 1.85% to $82.02, while Circle's stock price surged 9.65% to $95.55.

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According to Caixin, Ant Group CEO and Alipay Chairman Han Xinyi elaborated on systematic insights regarding the global exploration path of AI payments at the China Payment and Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payments have essentially formed four exploration paths:The first category is represented by payment technology and infrastructure platforms like Stripe. The second category is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase, which mainly rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrencies as a payment medium to directly support automated payment scenarios between machines. The third category is represented by traditional payment networks like the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard). The fourth category consists of AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.