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On-chain data shows that at 5:42 and 11:04 Beijing time today, USDC Treasury minted a total of 250 million USDC on the Solana network, bringing the total minting today to 500 million USDC in two instances.

According to The Block, Circle's Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen plans to step down after more than five years in office, with an expected departure by the end of December, unless the company identifies a successor earlier. Circle stated that it has engaged an executive search firm to initiate the recruitment process for a new CFO.

Stablecoin issuer Circle's Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down at the end of this year, and the company has begun the search for his successor.According to the disclosed departure agreement, Fox-Geen will receive a conditional cash payment of $1.05 million.

The Circle Foundation announced two grants to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore the application of digital payments and digital financial infrastructure in humanitarian aid and development projects.The Circle Foundation stated that the relevant programs will study how to utilize digital payments and regulated payment-type stablecoins to disburse funds to aid recipients more quickly, transparently, and at a lower cost.For the UNDP, the grant will be used to establish and operate a "Digital Asset Innovation Pool," helping country offices expand previous digital payment pilot projects conducted in Syria, Haiti, Guatemala, and Gambia from single projects to regular project execution, and provide support such as regulation, operations, and beneficiary protection; this mechanism will not replace traditional banking channels but will serve as a complementary option outside the existing payment system.For the WFP, the grant will support the establishment of governance, risk management, funding, reconciliation systems, and compliance tools necessary for stablecoin payments, and integrate local fintech and mobile payment services. Over the next three years, the WFP plans to test 2 to 3 payment channels connecting its payment system with local financial service providers and markets to assess the performance of stablecoin payments in terms of efficiency, transparency, and resilience.

According to on-chain data, Tether has successfully frozen 218,000 USDT in the stolen address from Bitget, which is a "three-hop" associated address of the initial stolen address from Bitget. This address remained inactive for over 2.5 hours after being discovered.Crypto KOL tanuki42 initiated a tracking of "Circle vs Tether" at that time and asked which of the two companies would freeze the related assets first.Currently, Circle has frozen the related stolen assets 7 hours and 18 minutes earlier than Tether.

According to on-chain analyst tanuki42, the address 0xe07 holds 100,000 USDC and 218,000 USDT, which come from the initial address of stolen funds from Bitget. This batch of funds has been idle for over 2.5 hours, after which they publicly called on Circle and Tether to freeze the assets.At 5 PM, crypto researcher SomaXBT posted that Circle has frozen the USDC assets and specifically called on Tether to follow up. As of the time of publication, Tether has not responded.

Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire posted on the X platform, citing an official tweet from Arc Chain, stating that one week after its launch, the on-chain asset scale (USDC and cirCTC) has achieved a breakthrough from 0 to 700 million dollars; the USDC trading volume has surpassed 7 billion dollars.

The public chain Arc officially announced that Circle's on-chain foreign exchange engine StableFX has now launched on the Arc mainnet. Arc is the public chain launched by Circle, aimed at stablecoins and payment scenarios.The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly 10 trillion USD, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours. StableFX supports round-the-clock settlement, allowing for near-instant or delayed settlement, where both parties can either receive funds simultaneously or not at all to reduce settlement risk. A single contract can trade with multiple vetted counterparties and obtain pricing through a unified RFQ model.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Inner Circle Esports vs 3DMAX - Logitech G Play Connect Playoffs," the option "Inner Circle Esports" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 54% an hour ago to the current 27.5% (a fluctuation of 26.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to data from Dune, the network transaction fees on the sixth day since the launch of Circle's Arc mainnet dropped to approximately $9,218, a decrease of 96.7% compared to the first day of launch.During the same period, the daily transaction fees for Robinhood Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Sui were approximately $312,000, $139,000, $22,300, and $11,500, respectively.

According to the 8-K document submitted by Circle Internet Group to the U.S. SEC, a subsidiary of Circle signed an agreement with Binance on September 17, 2026, to expand their strategic cooperation in promoting USDC. At the same time, Binance subscribed to 1,237,011 shares of Circle Class A common stock at a price of $80.84 per share, totaling an investment of $100 million. This price reflects a discount compared to the market price prior to the signing of the subscription agreement.Under the agreement, Circle will pay Binance a monthly incentive fee, calculated as a percentage of the amount of USDC held through Circle's modular smart contract wallet infrastructure service, while Binance will carry out additional promotional activities for USDC on its platform. The agreement has a term of five years, and either party may unilaterally terminate it upon the occurrence of specific events. The new agreement replaces the previous agreements from November 2024 and August 2025.The subscribed shares are issued through a private placement and are not registered under the Securities Act. Binance agrees not to directly or indirectly sell, transfer, pledge, or hedge such shares from the date of delivery until the second anniversary or before the termination of the commercial arrangement, while retaining voting rights and subject to several customary exceptions.

Circle announced that the Digital Asset Backed Borrowing and Lending (DABB) feature has been launched on the Arc and Ethereum networks, available to eligible Circle Mint institutional clients.Clients can deposit Bitcoin, mint Circle Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), and supply cirBTC as collateral to third-party lending markets in a single process using a self-custody wallet. The USDC borrowed will be directly settled into the Circle Mint account balance, without the need to sell the pledged Bitcoin; collateral can be released after repaying the USDC.

On-chain data shows that at 20:14 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

During the traditional market's weekend closure, the perpetual contract types of stocks in the exchange may have already priced in the market conditions. According to RootData, cryptocurrency concept stocks have generally surged significantly in pre-market trading:Strategy (MSTR) contract is currently priced at $162.81, up 5.78% from the last trading day's official closing price of $153.92;Coinbase (COIN) contract is currently priced at $201.47, up 3.72% from the last trading day's official closing price of $194.25;Circle (CRCL) contract is currently priced at $95.06, up 3.57% from the last trading day's official closing price of $91.78;Robinhood (HOOD) contract is currently priced at $123.95, up 3.45% from the last trading day's official closing price of $119.82;AMD (AMD) contract is currently priced at $577.46, up 3.15% from the last trading day's official closing price of $559.82;Micron Technology (MU) contract is currently priced at $1,040.67, up 2.45% from the last trading day's official closing price of $1,015.80;Meta (META) contract is currently priced at $682.04, up 2.45% from the last trading day's official closing price of $665.75;Tesla (TSLA) contract is currently priced at $370.73, up 1.77% from the last trading day's official closing price of $364.27;SanDisk (SNDK) contract is currently priced at $1,821.27, up 1.64% from the last trading day's official closing price of $1,791.82;NVIDIA (NVDA) contract is currently priced at $224.96, up 1.21% from the last trading day's official closing price of $222.27;

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. SEC has launched a five-year innovation exemption that provides a pathway for eligible tokenized U.S. stocks to be traded through automated market makers (AMM) on public blockchains. Analysts from Goldman Sachs and Citizens believe that Coinbase, Robinhood, and Circle could become early beneficiaries of this policy.The new framework requires tokens to retain shareholder rights such as dividends and voting rights while imposing limits on the number of stocks and trading volume that trading platforms can offer. Goldman Sachs stated that Coinbase's existing tokenized stock products already possess several of the required features, and its institutional custody business and Coinbase Tokenize may also benefit.However, Coinbase's current trading platform uses a centralized limit order book, and to operate a trading venue directly under the exemption, it will still need to build AMM infrastructure or route trades to decentralized trading platforms on Base.Currently, the stock tokens offered by Robinhood for markets outside the U.S. are derivatives that only provide price exposure and do not possess the complete shareholder rights required by the framework, thus requiring further adjustments to the product. Robinhood has previously stated plans to add 1:1 redemption and voting rights features for stocks.Analysts also believe that an increase in on-chain securities trading may drive demand for tokenized cash, benefiting Circle indirectly, with USDC potentially being used for settlement and collateral in on-chain markets.

Circle's public chain Arc has officially announced that it has launched proxy payments.Its Facilitator Service provides a hosted access path for x402 developers, allowing the acceptance of USDC and supporting on-chain settlements on Arc, Base, and Polygon; this path does not require a Relayer key or a separate Gas fee wallet.

According to monitoring by Bubblemaps, Circle has completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens and distributed them to 11 addresses via a null address, which can now be tracked in real-time on the blockchain.The Arc team previously announced that the minting of ARC tokens has been completed, with a total of 10 billion tokens. The team emphasized that ARC tokens are not yet available for circulation, trading, public use, or activation for staking, governance, fees, or utility functions. According to the previous white paper, the distribution plan for ARC tokens is as follows: 60% allocated to the ecosystem (token sales, developer funding, network growth); 25% allocated to Circle (protocol development, staking, and governance); 15% allocated to long-term reserves (strategic flexibility and economic stability).