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Circle clears final OCC hurdle as US bank charter race accelerates

The OCC has signed off on Circle's national trust bank charter, ending a regulatory marathon and giving USDC a direct line into the plumbing of US payments. The ruling tilts the field against smaller issuers just as Wall Street moves on tokenised deposits.

Declan Moye · Monexus Business · Economy desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·10 Jul 2026·Live on the wire ↗

Title page of a working paper titled "One Hundred Years in the U.S. Stock Markets," authored by Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University, dated March 21, 2026. @AngelList · Telegram

*Desk note: Monexus is covering Circle's charter as a banking-architecture story, not a crypto-price story. The relevant frame is who gets to mint dollar claims at scale and under which supervisor — the question that has shaped US payments since 1913. CryptoBriefing's wire supplied the trigger; the structural analysis above is Monexus's own.

Wire provenance

This editorial synthesis draws on the following public wire/social posts:

https://t.me/CryptoBriefing
https://t.me/TSN_ua

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