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šŸš€ Circle (CRCL) Just Blew the Roof Off Wall Street — and Crypto May Never Be the Same

Well, that escalated quickly.

Circle (ticker: CRCL), the company behind USDC (aka the second-largest stablecoin on the planet), just torched its previous record — jumping 34% in a single day to a new all-time high. Why the pump? The U.S. Senate just passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark piece of crypto legislation that could finally bring stablecoin regulation into the real-deal mainstream.

šŸ’¼ What’s the GENIUS Act and Why Should You Care?

The GENIUS Act isn’t just a fancy acronym — it's the kind of bill that makes crypto go from ā€œwild westā€ to ā€œWall Street-ready.ā€ It:

Requires 1:1 backing for stablecoins (i.e., real cash or Treasuries),

Introduces licensing and transparency requirements,

And gives legit players like Circle a massive regulatory edge.

In other words: no more sketchy stablecoin games. This is grown-up money now.

šŸ“ˆ Circle’s IPO Was Wild — This Is Wilder

In case you missed it, Circle IPO’d earlier this month at $31. It opened at $69 and just kept climbing. Today? It closed around $199.59 — that’s over 6x the IPO price. šŸ‘€

Safe to say, this isn’t just another crypto flash-in-the-pan. Wall Street is watching — and they like what they see.

šŸ”® What’s Next?

With Circle pulling off one of the biggest post-IPO runs in years, the floodgates might just be opening:

Coinbase, Robinhood, and other crypto-adjacent stocks surged on the same news.

Startups like Fireblocks and Chainalysis are rumored to be prepping IPO paperwork.

And crypto finally feels like it’s stepping out of the shadows — and into the suits-and-ties spotlight.

Circle just gave the public markets their first real taste of compliant, scalable, regulation-friendly crypto — and investors are eating it up. The GENIUS Act may have just rewritten the playbook for how crypto grows up in America.