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Top Stories This Week Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand on FTX’s collapse Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried testified this week in his ongoing criminal trial in the Southern District of New York, denying any wrongdoing…
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Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. After posting small gains last weekend, the price growth of crypto market leaders Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) slowed to effectively nothing this week. Bitcoin remains at…
![Circle To ‘Stand Behind’ USDC, Cover .3 Billion Shortfall Held in Silicon Valley Bank Circle To ‘Stand Behind’ USDC, Cover .3 Billion Shortfall Held in Silicon Valley Bank](https://img.decrypt.co/insecure/rs:fill:1024:512:1:0/plain/https://cdn.decrypt.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/circle-centre-coinbase-usdc-ethereum-algorand-gID_6.jpg@png)
USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has claimed that it will “cover any shortfall” caused as a result of the $3.3 billion in its funds held by the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank. In a blog…