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Top story Stablecoins & Payments · 1 min read

Circle Discloses USDC Economics, Paying $819M to Distribution Partners in H1 2026

Circle generated $1.4 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, distributing 59% to network partners while retaining a 7% net profit margin.

Neutral $USDC
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  1. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $436.9M in WBTC (5,362 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io
  2. $TON

    $TON is up 28.6% over 24 hours at $1.78 (market cap $4.5B, rank #25). Prices via Coinbase, Kraken and DefiLlama.

    Bullish Source: basisdesk.news
  3. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $436.9M in WBTC (5,362 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io
  4. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $436.1M in WBTC (5,362 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io
  5. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $436.1M in WBTC (5,362 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io
  6. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $436.1M in WBTC (5,362 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io
  7. $WBTC

    Whale alert: $476.6M in WBTC (5,858 WBTC) moved on Ethereum from an unlabelled wallet to an unlabelled wallet Source: on-chain data via Basis Desk scanner.

    Neutral Source: etherscan.io

  8. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde stated at the IMFC meeting that headline inflation rose to 3.8% in September due to energy shocks, prompting a 25 basis point rate hike.

    Bearish Source: ecb.europa.eu

AI Daily Brief

2026-10-17 · Listen 2:01

  1. 1. Circle brought in $1.4 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, distributing 59% of it to network partners as onchain $USDC transaction volume surpassed $36 trillion.
  2. 2. Open Standard launched OUSD with over $1 billion in committed backing, prompting Visa to beta-test native minting tools and OKX to launch zero-fee conversions.
  3. 3. The deployment activates at epoch 132,352, introducing enshrined proposer-builder separation and lifting the testnet gas limit to 200M.
  4. 4. The lattice-based SNARK aggregates over 50,000 Falcon signatures per second on commodity hardware, offering proof-of-stake chains an alternative to recursive hash-based proofs.
  5. 5. Clients in the European Economic Area can now aggregate spot, margin, Earn, and futures balances into a single collateral pool that accepts over 40 digital assets, USD, EUR, and gold.
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Markets & Tokens

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  1. 1 $AGT Alaya Governance Token $0.0727 +83.7%
  2. 2 $BR Bedrock $0.3928 +17.7%
  3. 3 $SAND The Sandbox $0.0622 +12.9%
  4. 4 $KMNO Kamino Finance $0.0418 +8.3%
  5. 5 $MINA Mina Protocol $0.0788 +6.0%
  6. 6 $NMR Numeraire $12.51 +5.0%
  7. 7 $A Vaulta $0.1077 +4.3%
  8. 8 $EIGEN EigenLayer $0.2648 +3.5%
  1. 1 $ZRO LayerZero $1.94 −12.0%
  2. 2 $ZK zkSync $0.0158 −9.8%
  3. 3 $SUPER SuperVerse $0.1941 −9.1%
  4. 4 $STX Stacks $0.3768 −8.9%
  5. 5 $STRK Starknet $0.0711 −8.6%
  6. 6 $STABLE Stable $0.0252 −7.7%
  7. 7 $PROM Prometeus $4.90 −7.4%
  8. 8 $ARB Arbitrum $0.1869 −7.1%
  1. 1 $BTC Bitcoin $19.5B −1.0%
  2. 2 $ETH Ethereum $7.0B −1.5%
  3. 3 $SOL Solana $1.6B −1.7%
  4. 4 $XRP XRP $967.1M −2.9%
  5. 5 $NEAR NEAR Protocol $704.7M −3.2%
  6. 6 $ZEC Zcash $695.8M −4.8%
  7. 7 $SUI Sui $592.9M −4.4%
  8. 8 $DOGE Dogecoin $452.0M −2.5%

Gainers/Losers: market cap ≥ $50M and 24h volume ≥ $5M; stablecoins and wrapped assets excluded. Volume: top assets by 24h turnover.

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  1. Crypto market close, Oct. 16: Bitcoin edges down 0.8% to $81,499
  2. Crypto market close, Oct. 15: Bitcoin edges up 0.6% to $82,139 as NEAR climbs 7.5%
  3. Crypto market close, Oct. 14: Bitcoin slips 2.0% to $81,542 as TON tumbles 23.9%

Whale Alerts (live)

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  1. $9.7M 4,000 ETH
    0xc29b…56fe Binance
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  2. $131.7M 131,746,747 USDC
    0xbbbb…ffcb 0xd1c6…c7eb
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  3. $484.5M 5,959 WBTC
    0xbbbb…ffcb 0xd1c6…c7eb
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  4. $62.7M 62,827,015 USDT
    0xbbbb…ffcb 0xd1c6…c7eb
    Transfer
  5. $38.9M 16,000 ETH
    0xed0c…4312 0xd016…5722
    Transfer
  6. $9.7M 4,000 ETH
    0xed0c…4312 0xc29b…56fe
    Transfer
  7. $23.6M 23,601,639 USDC
    Kraken Hot Wallet 4 0x2744…a22b
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  8. $11.0M 11,000,000 USDT
    Poloniex 10 0x2387…086a
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