Circle’s valuation doubles to $9B following revised merger agreement with Con...
The Circle-Concord business combination will create a new company that plans to list publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. USD Coin (USDC) operator Circle has seen its valuation double to $9 billion after the company revised its merger agreement with Concord Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) founded in 2020.Circle announced Thursday that it had terminated its previous business combination terms with Concord and reached a new agreement that is expected to be finalized by December 8, 2022, with the possibility of it being extended to January 31, 2023. As....
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The stablecoin market continues to grow and diversify: Circle's USDC, Tether's USDT and Terra's UST all made headlines this week. Stablecoins used to be a sort of taboo subject in the crypto community after it became common practice to criticize Tether’s reserve backing. Are you really a seasoned crypto investor if you haven’t gone down the Tether (USDT) rabbit hole? Some of those concerns were finally quelled in May 2021 when Tether passed an assurance test by disclosing its reserves for the first time. For some onlookers, the reserve breakdown created more questions than answers due to....
Already being the primary asset manager of USDC cash reserves, BlackRock will now also be exploring capital market applications for the USDC stablecoin. Circle, a major peer-to-peer payments firm and the principal operator of the UDC Coin (USDC), has announced a $400 million funding round and a new partnership with the American investment firm BlackRock.The USDC issuer has entered into an agreement for a funding round featuring investors like BlackRock, the investment advisory firm Fidelity Management and Research, the London-based hedge fund Marshall Wace and Fin Capital, as Circle....
In other news, Fireblocks has acquired First Digital in a deal worth $100 million and the New York Stock Exchange is pursuing NFT trading. Last week’s Crypto Biz newsletter explained how Wall Street is essentially marketing Bitcoin (BTC) for us after Wells Fargo said digital assets could “soon hit a hyper-inflection point” in terms of adoption. This week, JPMorgan Chase issued its own bullish outlook when it labeled the Metaverse a $1 trillion a year opportunity. In addition to JPMorgan, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this week sent out a strong signal that nonfungible tokens (NFTs)....
The combined company will be called "Bakkt Holdings" and will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange with an expected valuation of $2.1 billion.
Tera Group Inc, the operator of the US's first regulated Bitcoin derivative platform Tera Exchange, recently signed a merger agreement with MGT Capital Investment; thereby adding a crucial step that should make the former a publicly listed company. According to the available details, both the parties have currently agreed on some "contemplated" terms of the agreement which will reach its conclusion by March 16th, 2015. But as per now, it is definite that Tera will have a major stake in MGT's common stock shares (at least 70%). From the look of it, Tera however seems to be disinterested....