Circle, the issuer of U.S.-backed stablecoin USDC, made a splash with its IPO on June 5, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know in just one minute of reading.

IPO Highlights & Market Perception

• Circle offered 34 million shares at $31 each, raising $1.05 billion — one of the largest fintech IPOs since Coinbase in 2021.
• Trading on NYSE under ticker “CRCL” opened at $69, peaked at around $104, and closed at $83.23 on June 4 — a blistering 168%+ first‑day gain. On June 10, it’s $115 at the premarket.

• It recorded the biggest two-day IPO pop since 1980 relative to its IPO price.

SBI Group Commits $50 Million

• Tokyo-based SBI Holdings and its subsidiary SBI Shinsei Bank invested $50 million in Circle’s stock — $25 million each — soon after the IPO.
• SBI aims to leverage its investment to expand USDC’s footprint in Japan’s emerging digital assets market.

Ripple Partner SBI Holdings & SBI Shinsei Bank Invest $50M in Circle, USDC Issuer, Post-NYSE Listing to Boost Digital Asset Adoption in Japan pic.twitter.com/UWfbeGeVF8

— 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP (@BankXRP) June 9, 2025

Sigil’s Core Fund Scores ~4x Return

• • Crypto investment firm Sigil Core Fund turned significant profits from its venture into Circle ahead of the IPO, generating near 4× returns on its position.
  • The IPO’s oversubscription — reportedly 25× over demand — amplified these returns and signals robust investor appetite.

How Sigil fund did 500% in a year buying Circle at $5b valuation last summer.

The best trades are sometimes right there in front of your eyes. You just need a good thesis. https://t.co/wmSIn2wtlD

— MrKvak (@MrkvakEth) June 10, 2025

Implications for the Crypto Sector

• Industry Barometer: Circle’s success is being seen as a bellwether for future crypto and fintech IPOs, signaling public-market readiness.
• Stablecoin Legitimacy: Analysts emphasize how Circle’s public entry elevates stablecoins to the status of mainstream financial infrastructure.
• Regulatory Tailwinds: With more clarity unfolding around digital assets and crypto-favorable policies under the Trump administration, Circle’s performance reinforces a broader shift toward compliance-backed crypto ventures.
• Investor Caution: Experts caution on post-IPO lock-up expiry. Insider share sales in 90–180 days could stall momentum, mirroring past tech IPO cycles.

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In the wake of a favorable court ruling in the Ripple vs. SEC case, XRP has witnessed an extraordinary surge in demand and trading activity. With over 1 million trades per minute globally, XRP has become the center of attention for investors worldwide. 

This unprecedented growth comes after a period of legal uncertainty and trading restrictions, positioning XRP for potential success in the cryptocurrency market.

XRP’s Milestone: Over 1 Million Trades Per Minute Sparks Growth

Visionary entrepreneur and self-proclaimed “Crypto Crusader,” known as Nick on Twitter,  swiftly recognized the unparalleled growth potential inherent in XRP.

Taking to social media, Nick expressed his awe at the surging demand for XRP, emphasizing its relentless upward trajectory in a tweet. With unwavering confidence, Nick firmly believes that this remarkable milestone is merely the inception of XRP’s extraordinary journey.

Also, XRP experienced a significant surge in trading volume, reaching $10.4 billion on July 13. However, while this figure appears impressive, it is worth noting that it only ranks as the 76th largest volume in XRP’s history. 

This observation highlights the immense potential that XRP possesses, suggesting that the recent surge in volume may be just the beginning.

A tweet from Leonidas, the host of the popular crypto YouTube channel XRPArcade, underscores this point, stating, “On July 13th, XRP’s volume spiked to $10.4 billion. Even though this seems like a big number, historically, this was XRP’s 76th largest daily trading volume recorded on CoinMarketCap (CMC). The highest was almost $37 billion on April 6th, 2021.” 

This historical context emphasizes that XRP has achieved even higher trading volumes in the past, indicating the potential for further growth. 

XRP price sitting at $0.73 | Source: XRPUSD on TradingView.com

Daily Volume Surges 18-Fold Following Court Ruling And Exchange Relisting

The court ruling that declared XRP as not a Security favored the altcoin as XRP witnessed a dramatic surge in trading volume, increasing from $613 million to $11.2 billion within a single day. 

The ruling by the Southern District Court of New York has reignited investor interest in XRP, leading major exchange platforms such as Coinbase, Kraken, and Crypto.com to relist the asset. 

The market responded with XRP’s value soaring by 85% from $0.47 to $0.87, with the token currently trading at $0.78 despite the market drawdown.

Moreover, XRP’s market capitalization also experienced a substantial boost, reaching $40.8 billion within the past 24 hours. This surge propelled XRP to become the fourth largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, trailing only Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Tether USD (USDT). 

The derivatives market also witnessed increased interest, with funding rates and open interest for XRP derivatives reaching the highest levels of the year, indicating growing confidence among traders.

Featured image from Outlook India, chart from TradingView.com

Self-described “on-chain sleuth” @ZachXBT tweeted that a wallet linked to a Dogechain developer had started dumping DC tokens.

Nice a wallet that received 20,000,000,000 DC for free ties directly back to the deployer and has already started dumping tokens on people.

0x7249a89195A7A532af12345E2dE0C20c8A06A0d9https://t.co/rsnYUsVzrD https://t.co/66Ulblwfcl pic.twitter.com/lsSqa4Mj9w

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) August 25, 2022

Dogechain launched their DC token on Aug. 24 via airdrop to qualifying wallets. The qualifying criterion was any Dogechain wallet that had interacted with the protocol before Aug. 23. This would necessitate adding Dogecoin(DOGE) liquidity into the Dogechain protocol.

Reddit user u/evelynvee posted that the Dogechain dev wallet mentioned by @ZachXBT was dumping the 20 billion tokens received from the airdrop at a peak of  1 million tokens a minute.

According to u/evelynvee, DC token holders generally cannot dump their tokens as there is an 8 million DC token fee to bridge to the Ethereum chain, plus a minimum transfer of 9 million DC tokens ($16,000).

The official Dogechain Twitter has not responded to comments and requests about what is happening.

Dogecoin Foundation warned users not to risk their DOGE

Dogechain pitched itself as a layer 2 scaling solution to bring DeFi, NFTs, and gaming to Dogecoin.

Borrowing from the Dogecoin philosophy, the Dogechain team said the project is community-based and champions the idea of equality and fairness.

“Dogechain stands for fairness and equal opportunity for all. Our goal is to create a blockchain that is truly owned by the people.“

Nonetheless, Dogecoin Foundation board member Jens Wiechers warned that Dogechain is not a related product and that “paid media,” including social media shills, are disseminating false information to the contrary.

Similarly, Dogecoin dev @cb_doge said Dogechain is “another knock-off token,” while cautioning DOGE holders not to risk their tokens.

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Cardano’s supporters on Crypto Twitter are sharing their experience using Sundaeswap (SUNDAE), its flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Sundaeswap (SUNDAE) now allows users to exchange assets in less than a minute: user

Anonymous Cardano (ADA) enthusiast and staking pool operator who goes by @Swag_Stakepool on Twitter is fascinated by the speed of exchange demonstrated by the Sundaeswap (SUNDAE) exchange module.

So…@SundaeSwap doing swaps under a minute now. CT had the whole industry shook that these growing pains on #Cardano could never be remedied.

Y’all funny.

— Jeff – SW₳G Stakepool – $DANA ISPO (@Swag_Stakepool) March 3, 2022

As per his estimations, on average, Sundaeswap (SUNDAE) handles cross-asset swaps in less than one minute. This period can be compared to Ethereum-based and BSC-based top-tier DEXes Uniswap (UNI) and Pancakeswap (CAKE).

He also mocked the skepticism of Cardano’s crticics who predicted that Cardano’s DeFi ecosystem would not get rid of the troubles it faced upon smart contracts launch.

As covered by U.Today previously, Cardano (ADA) skeptics repeatedly announced that due to the limitations of its EUTXO model, it will not be powerful enough to host modern DeFi infrastructure.

New Daedalus release saves almost 30% of RAM usage

Sundaeswap (SUNDAE) is one of the earliest DeFi protocols in Cardano’s ecosystem. It boasts a cross-asset swap module, yield farming instruments and other DeFi tools.

On Feb. 14, 2022, it smashed through a major milestone: its net volume of assets locked exceeded $100 million.

Also, yesterday, Cardano dev IOHK released an updated version of its node software, Daedalus.

Daedalus 4.9.0 for Cardano has been released on auto update and appears to use less RAM. On my Mac the cardano-node and Daedalus processes combined use 8.62 GB RAM total, down from 12 GB last I checked.
Best full node wallet ever.#Cardano #Ada #goingfornumber1 pic.twitter.com/UxPQTtLyiB

— Rick McCracken , (@RichardMcCrackn) March 3, 2022

Daedalus 4.9.0 now consumes 8.62 GB RAM in all on Apple’s Mac computers, compared to 12 GB registered previously.

Invesco, a $1.6 trillion asset manager surprised many by pulling out of its Bitcoin Futures ETF bid at the last moment. What turned even more heads was the fact that the withdrawal came after the SEC has already approved ProShares’s Bitcoin Futures ETF that created and broke several records on debut. Now the asset manager has come out to reveal the reason behind the unexpected pullback.

Anna Paglia, global head of ETFs and indexed strategies at Invesco balmed the SEC’s strategy to be the main reason behind its surprising move. Paglia said the regulatory constraints put on the fund would have made it a very expensive investment for traders. He particularly showed displeasure towards the SEC’s decision to go with a 100% Futures based product as it typically incurs a loss when it rolls a front-month contract into a longer-dated one.

“We thought that CME futures were going to be a very effective element of the portfolio. We never thought they would be effective when they would be 100 per cent of the product,” said Anna Paglia, global head of ETFs and indexed strategies at Invesco.

SEC chief Gary Gensler made it clear that a spot market-based Bitcoin ETF would not get SEC approval as the regulatory body still believe the market is not mature enough and might fall prey to scams and manipulations. This is the reason a majority of firms either withdrew their spot ETF applications or filed an additional one for the Futures ETF.

Will Invesco Launch a Spot Bitcoin ETF?

Invesco says an ideal portfolio for a Bitcoin investment would be a mix of futures, swaps, physical bitcoin, ETFs, and private funds. Paglia also revealed that Invesco was among the first to file for the Bitcoin Futures ETF but later decided against it as internal surveys and research showed that it would not be as beneficial as they thought it would be. He explained,

“Our view was that a futures-based ETF was going to be imperfect,” Hougan said. “When we filed we thought that it would be worth it, but costs built on costs — the contango, the commission merchants, added costs to work through a Cayman subsidiary — so that we ultimately decided it wasn’t in the interests of long-term investors.”