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Binance is buying $100 million of Circle shares at $80.84 apiece as part of a five-year partnership to promote USDC on its exchange, with the stock subject to a lockup of up to two years. Circle will pay Binance a monthly incentive fee tied to USDC balances held on the platform, and Circle shares rose more than 1% in premarket trading following the announcement.
Circle has unveiled Arc, a new blockchain network designed for institutional finance, with USDC stablecoin functioning as its core settlement asset. The network is permissioned, meaning access is restricted, and is backed by major financial players including BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard.
Sebastian Stan has confirmed he is joining the cast of 'The Batman Part II', director Matt Reeves' follow-up to his 2022 Batman film. Stan described landing the role as a mix of good timing and personal excitement to step into a new corner of the superhero genre after years associated with Marvel.
A senior consumer tech reviewer wrote a tongue-in-cheek first-person account of using a crossbody phone strap, a carrying style popularized in Europe and among younger users. She humorously details wearing it with everyday casual outfits, using it for quick texting and tap-to-pay, and even repurposing the phone's flashlight as reading light in dim bars.
reMarkable has released a software update for its E-Ink tablets that lets users circle any part of the screen to capture and copy it as an image, which can then be repositioned or moved between notebooks. The update also adds green, yellow, cyan, and magenta pen colors, improves grayscale differentiation, and enables importing JPG and PNG files directly from Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive.