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September's Stablecoin Yields

Welcome back to the Citizen Daily Brief. Put your stablecoins to work. This is the future of finance, after all.
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Sep 24, 20253 min read
September's Stablecoin Yields
Published on Sep 24, 2025
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NEED TO KNOW
Tether's $20B Raise
  1. 💰 Tether Targets $20B Raise at Eye-Popping $500B Valuation. A successful deal would make the stablecoin issuer one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
  2. ⚖️ ShapeShift Fined $750k for Sanctions Violations. The shuttered crypto exchange, founded by Erik Voorhees, was penalized by the U.S. Treasury for processing transactions from sanctioned jurisdictions between 2016 and 2018.
  3. 😮 SBF Shocks Crypto Twitter with 'gm' Tweet. The brief tweet sent the price of FTT skyrocketing some 30%.
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Daily Market Snapshot: With most top 100 coins trading flat on the day, BTC enjoyed a small rally, while ETH and SOL chopped slightly in the red.
Prices as of 3pm ET 24hr 7d
Crypto $3.92T ↗ 1.2% ↘ 2.0%
BTC $113,588 ↗ 1.3% ↘ 1.9%
ETH $4,172 ↘ 0.2% ↘ 7.7%
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