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USDC operates as an Ethereum ERC-20 token and is also available on several other blockchain platforms such as Base and Polygon. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Visa initiated a pilot program to send USDC via the Solana blockchain to payment firms Worldpay and Nuvei , who could then transfer payment to merchants.
The investment from Circle's venture arm, Circle Ventures, will allow Sei to integrate USDC with its growing suite of applications, such as the popular decentralized exchange Sushiswap.
The company has received over US$135 million in venture capital from 4 rounds of investments from 2013 to 2016, including US$50 million led by Goldman Sachs. [4] [5] [6] In April 2015 The New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper wrote that the Goldman Sachs investment "should help solidify Bitcoin’s reputation as a technology that serious financial firms can work with."
USD Coin, according to the stablecoin's governing company, Circle, soon will be available on six additional blockchains: Base, Cosmos via the Noble network, NEAR, Optimism, Polkadot, and Polygon PoS.
In fact, it is the cryptocurrency that commands the highest interest rates by far — about 20% annualized as of this writing — compared against GUSD, USDC, Bitcoin and Ethereum.
In January 2015, the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex enabled trading of Tether on their platform. In 2018, Phil Potter, the chief strategy officer for Bitfinex, left the company after the Paradise Papers leaks in November 2017 named Bitfinex officials Philip Potter and Giancarlo Devasini as responsible for setting up Tether Holdings Limited in the British Virgin Islands in 2014.
If there was ever a time for those curious about crypto as an investment, it’s likely right now, as some — such as Mould — are speculating that the market could “smash through $100,000 ...
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