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View More NewsIn brief Circle acquired over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents from IBM, making it the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States; financial terms were not disclosed. The portfolio covers banking, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply chain verification, and secure cloud operations. Circle plans to deploy it across USDC, Circle Payments Network, its Arc blockchain, and AI-powered financial tools. Circle—the company behind USDC (the digital dollar used by millions worldwide for payments, savings, and international transfers)—just bought the blockchain patent library IBM spent more than a decade building. The deal, announced July 27, hands Circle over…
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