What exactly does Circle do, and why did it decide to move its headquarters from downtown Boston to lower Manhattan late last year? Here are six things to understand about the company, which manages a "stablecoin" called USDC.

The cryptocurrency company, which offers fully backed digital money for rapid global payments around the clock, priced its IPO above the expected range.

Gemini goes down the IPO route, amid rising crypto market optimism IPO filing a sign of growing Wall Street interest in digital assets In a notable shift within the stablecoin and crypto markets, Circle’s USDC followed Tether’s USDT in May,