$USDC 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.