At the end of May, when everyone was watching the U.S. debt ceiling drama, Blackrock, the manager of Circle stablecoin reserves, precautiously moved the holdings from T-bills to commercial banks. Now that the storm alert has passed, T-bills have started to appear on the balance sheets again.

On April 26, the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol from Circle was launched. The new protocol allows moving USDC between Ethereum and Avalanche.

On March 20, a vote was opened for the MakerDAO community to ‘normalize’ the parameters of the Price Stability Module (PSM). As a result, USDC remained the main reserve asset of PSM.

After the failure of three U.S. banks (with varying degrees of crypto exposure) in the space of a week last month, the sector seems to have settled back into relative calm, at least for the time being. So it would seem like the perfect opportunity for a recap.

Circle's partnership with cryptocurrency start-up Noble will bring the USDC natively to the Cosmos ecosystem.

In a new report, Moody's analyzed the impact of the traditional banking system on stablecoins, as well as the possible tightening of regulation against the background of the recent banking crisis.

The move makes Gibraltar-based Xapo the first fully licensed bank in the world to offer USDC on-and off-ramps as a fast, free, 24/7 alternative to the expensive and slow SWIFT system used for international payments.

USDC depeged from USD after US Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. Exchanges paused their conversion as users rushed into other assets. Now the stablecoin has got back to 1:1 ration, but what’s done is done…