Building blockchains is the newest fad in fintech. The U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has one. The online brokerage Robinhood announced its plans to launch its own blockchain in June, and its ...

Circle and Stripe look beyond Ethereum, announcing plans to build their own Layer-1 blockchain protocols. Circle's Arc Layer-1 blockchain protocol is designed to offer enterprise-grade stablecoin ...

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Facebook’s Libra project, warned on Friday that Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc could succeed commercially but at the cost of crypto’s decentralization ideal.

In August 2025, Circle (the company behind USDC) announced Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and financial apps. Arc isn’t just another general-purpose chain; it’s ...

Payments firm Stripe is expanding its crypto products to layer-1 blockchain Aptos APT $0.8266 and stablecoin issuer Circle plans to bring its flagship stablecoin, USDC, to the network, ecosystem ...

That was the assumption when fishery managers created a rule in 2020 requiring anglers to use circle hooks when fishing with bait for striped bass. Some preliminary studies from the late 1990s ...