Circle Internet Group announced the completion of $68 million in internal settlements through the stablecoin USDC and its own infrastructure Circle Mint in less than 30 minutes. This demonstrates the high efficiency of stablecoins in corporate financial management, especially in cash flow, auditability, and settlement speed, ushering in a new era of real-time fund management.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire revealed that Circle has completed internal entity transfers using USDC through the Circle Mint platform, transferring over $68 million in the first month, with significantly higher efficiency than traditional bank wire transfers. The platform will launch a fund management update in March to optimize account transfers and integrate with accounting system APIs.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that the company recently used USDC and Circle Mint to settle $68 million cross-company transactions in less than 30 minutes, replacing the traditional fiat wire transfer process that takes 1-3 days. This method has full auditability and is expected to be adopted by more enterprises in the future.

BlockBeats News, March 3rd, Lido announced via tweet that Phase 3 of V3 has gone live. Now, all stVaults can mint stETH permissionlessly, and the minting cap for identified node operators has also been increased. The initial deployment of Lido V3 is now fully complete.

Foresight News reports that the privacy protection project zERC20 has launched the zERC20 protocol to support the asset zBNB. The official statement says that zBNB retains the familiar and user-friendly features of BNB while adding privacy protection functions for on-chain transactions. When users wrap BNB, the original BNB will be destroyed to an irrecoverable address, and a cryptographic proof will be generated. Users can use this proof to mint zBNB to a new address, which is completely separate from historical transaction records.

Digital asset custody firm Hex Trust announces the provision of XRP DeFi access for institutional clients. Through its platform, users can mint and redeem FXRP while maintaining custody control and supporting native FLR staking. Flare also launches the FXRP lending market, allowing users to benefit without selling XRP.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Singapore-based cryptocurrency company Penguin Securities announced the completion of approximately 2.8 billion yen (about $18 million USD) in funding, with investors including mint, Tokyo University of Science Investment Management, and other Japanese investment institutions. The company was co-founded in February 2023 by Japanese entrepreneurs Yuuya Kuratomi, Kentaro Kawabe, and Shoto Setoguchi, and has obtained a Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2025. (CoinPost)

On February 2, news came out that Singapore's Gulf Bank (SGB) announced the launch of a new regulated fiat-stablecoin interoperability service, allowing institutional clients to mint, exchange, hold, and trade stablecoins within a single compliant platform. This service will be deployed on its proprietary clearing network SGB Net, supporting the circulation of mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC across multiple blockchain networks, and can be directly integrated with fiat settlement systems. SGB stated that the current stablecoin management process remains complex, and institutions face high friction costs in compliance, custody, and clearing. CEO Shawn Chan pointed out that the bank's goal is to provide a unified infrastructure for traditional finance and digital assets, enabling seamless movement of funds between on-chain and off-chain.

BlockBeats News, January 20th, according to CertiK monitoring, 193 suspicious transactions related to unverified contracts associated with SynapLogic have been detected. The attacker repeatedly calls contract functions, using flash loans to borrow 1 ETH to mint 16,000 SYP tokens, then repays the ETH. The operation originates from multiple newly created addresses.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Zama has announced that its mainnet staking feature is now live. The ZAMA token has two utilities: fees and staking. The ZAMA tokens paid as fees will be burned by the protocol, while the protocol will mint tokens at an initial annual issuance rate of 5% to pay operators. Operators are required to stake ZAMA tokens to participate and earn rewards. 40% of the rewards are allocated to FHE nodes, and 60% are allocated to KMS nodes.