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The partnership between Circle and Sasai enables USDC payments across Africa, enhancing financial access and reducing remittance costs. This integration aims to boost cross-border trade and support a mobile-first economy in the region.

Circle is expanding the use of its USD Coin (USDC) across Africa through a strategic partnership with Sasai Fintech. The collaboration aims to weave USDC into Sasai’s payments fabric, covering cross-border transfers, enterprise payments, and consumer wallets, with the goal of lowering costs and

Circle Internet Group has partnered with Cassava Technologies to enable users in Africa to conduct domestic and cross-border payments using its stablecoin USDC, involving the remittance app Sasai Fintech Ltd., which operates across 30 markets.

Circle is partnering with Sasai Fintech to expand the use of its USDC stablecoin across African payment corridors, targeting remittances, business transactions and mobile wallet services. According to Tuesday’s announcement, collaboration will integrate the second-biggest stablecoin into Sasai’s ex

Gate officially integrates Polymarket, becoming the first centralized exchange platform globally to integrate it, and launches a dedicated portal in the Gate App. Users can participate in prediction trading through USDT in their spot accounts without on-chain operations, and transaction fees are waived during the public beta period. It offers both prediction and trading modes to meet different needs and supports diverse event types and trading methods. In the future, it will expand the event scope and enhance price discovery functionality.

Circle Internet Group has partnered with Sasai Fintech, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, enabling users to pay with USD stablecoin USDC through Sasai Fintech's money transfer app across Africa, covering 30 markets.

Gate announced on March 24, 2026, that it has integrated Polymarket and launched a dedicated “Polymarket” entry within its app, becoming the first centralized exchange to offer prediction market functionality directly on its platform.

As stablecoins expand, major global banks like Citigroup and BNY Mellon are accelerating deposit tokenization initiatives to address fund outflows and operational pressures. This model maps bank deposits as on-chain assets, enabling rapid settlement, which helps enhance liquidity while maintaining compliance. Despite transformation challenges in technology and regulation, deposit tokenization could drive the convergence of traditional finance and blockchain in the long term.

Prediction market platform Polymarket announced it will expand its fee mechanism to all crypto market timeframes and introduce a daily USDC rebate mechanism for liquidity providers. The new floating fee structure has a maximum of 1.56%. This move marks a shift in the platform's business model and could reshape the competitive landscape, elevating the importance of artificial market makers.

Polymarket will adjust its fee mechanism starting March 30, 2026, adding multiple market categories and adopting a dynamic formula to calculate new fee rates. Fees will be used to incentivize market makers to provide liquidity. Currently, only Crypto and Sports markets charge fees, while other markets remain fee-free.

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Gate News bot message, Machi (@machibigbrother) deposited $250,000 USDC into HyperLiquid. According to the report, Machi increased his ETH long position with 25x leverage while opening new long positions in BTC with 40x leverage and HYPE with 10x leverage.

Bernstein analysts point out that Circle's USDC partnership with a certain CEX is a direct play for investing in the stablecoin market. AI agent machine payments could bring incremental demand, but the scale remains small for now. USDC's supply and trading volume have reached all-time highs, with leading market share.

Japan's SBI VC Trade, under the SBI Holdings financial group, will launch USDC lending services in 2026, providing users with annualized returns. This is Japan's first lending service targeting stablecoins, with an anticipated annual interest rate of 5%. This service not only introduces new yield options but also expands the financial applications of stablecoins, demonstrating Japan's emphasis on the legitimacy and operational standards for stablecoin utilization.

Gate News bot message: According to Gate's official announcement on March 23, 2026 Gate has now launched USDT Staking AAVE-Plasma Protocol and USDC Staking AAVE V3(ARB) Protocol. Both products have a minimum investment of 1 USDT/1 USDC, with current annualized yields reaching up to 3.23%. Both USDT and USDC staking products earn on-chain yields through Aave's decentralized liquidity market. Users' staking begins earning interest the day after staking(D+1 Day), and interest distribution begins on the third day(D+2 Day). Interest is automatically distributed daily in the form of corresponding tokens. Users can redeem their staked assets at any time, with funds arriving the day after submission(D+1 Day). Both products have no upper limit on per-user staking amounts, and annualized yields fluctuate daily based on user staking participation and on-chain yields.

Gate News, on March 23, according to Whale Alert monitoring, USDC Treasury executed a burn operation on the Ethereum chain, destroying a total of 50,000,000 USDC.

The DeFi ecosystem has recently experienced an advanced exploitation which continues to show the ongoing vulnerabilities with the minting mechanisms of various protocols within the DeFi ecosystem. On March 22, 2026, the security monitoring platform known as Lookonchain notified the community about a