{"id":33296,"date":"2025-06-23T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33296"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:01:47","slug":"circle-hits-new-record-with-market-cap-nearing-that-of-coinbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33296","title":{"rendered":"Circle Hits New Record With Market Cap Nearing That of Coinbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) soared to a fresh record high on Monday extending their explosive rally since its IPO and making the company worth almost as much as its flagship token&#8217;s market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Shares were up another 22% at one point Monday morning, hitting a record high just shy of $299, before giving back some of the advance. The stock closed around $263, up 9% for the session. Since the IPO earlier this month priced at $31, shares have appreciated a whopping 750%.<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, Circle\u2019s market capitalization reached roughly $60 billion, putting it nearly on par with the $61.3 billion supply of its USDC USDC stablecoin. It also brings the firm within striking distance of crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), which has a market cap of about $78 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Circle\u2019s surge this month is a testament to the soaring investor appetite for the fast-growing stablecoin market, a crypto sector with few publicly-traded pure plays. USDC remains the second-largest dollar-pegged token in circulation, and it&#8217;s widely used across exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, and increasingly popular for payments and cross-border transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Catalysts that helped to fuel the rally was the U.S. Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/06\/17\/u-s-senate-passes-genius-act-to-regulate-stablecoins-marking-crypto-industry-win\">passing<\/a> the so-called GENIUS Act last week, advancing regulation for the asset class that some believe it could reach trillions over the next years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/10\/24\/circles-allaire-stablecoins-could-expand-by-trillions-in-10-years-will-be-integral-part-of-global-financial-system\">Circle&#8217;s Allaire: Stablecoins Could Expand by Trillions in 10 Years, Will Be Integral Part of Global Financial System<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still, some analysts warn the rally may be running ahead of fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>The rally put Circle in the market cap league of well-established fintech giants like Robinhood ($68 billion), Nubank ($59 billion), Block ($38 billion), and not far from Coinbase ($78 billion), according to Jon Ma, CEO of crypto analytics firm Artemis.<\/p>\n<p>The company also trades at eye-watering valuation multiples rarely seen among its fintech and crypto peers: 32x its revenue, 80x its gross profit, 152x EBITDA, and 285x earnings, Ma pointed out. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not a lot of upside in the current model,&#8221; he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonbma\/status\/1935727836339281965\">previous post<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) soared to a fresh record high on Monday extending their explosive rally since its IPO and making the company worth almost as much as its flagship token&#8217;s market capitalization. Shares were up another 22% at one point Monday morning, hitting a record high just shy of $299, before giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}