Key Insights
- Bybit increases the liquidity of USDC in the world spot, derivatives, and payment markets.
- The settlement platform by Circle increases the speed of accessing stablecoins and the conversion of fiat.
- Bybit is benefiting from regulatory momentum associated with wider institutional adoption of compliant stablecoins.
Bybit and Circle have announced a global alliance aimed at increasing the usage and accessibility of the USDC. The collaboration allows Bybit to add to the liquidity of both spot and derivatives markets in the USDC, which will offer better depth and execution to the retail and institutional traders.
The exchange will launch more initiatives to increase the utility of USDC in its wider range of financial services, such as Bybit Earn to save money, Bybit Card to earn rewards and cashbacks, and Bybit Pay to spend money daily. Such integrations will make USDC a major part of the platform settlement, rewards, and payment workflows.
Circle Infrastructure Enhances Fiat On- and Off-Ramp Connectivity
According to the stablecoin issuer’s announcement, the partnership also furthers the fiat accessibility of world users. Bybit will use the settlement and payments infrastructure offered by Circle to integrate currency conversions in the various regions and to make deposits and withdrawals quicker and more open. The partnership aims to make cross-border exchange of local currencies and digital assets easier. This is aimed at overcoming the conversion bottlenecks that have historically plagued the global crypto exchanges.
The technology provided by Circle is more entrenched in international remittances, stablecoin payment rails, and institutional settlement infrastructure. Initiated integrations with other companies in the first half of this year are indicators of a growing tendency toward the necessity to use regulated stablecoins as a means of payment.
Bybit is included in more than a hundred companies on the public testnet of Arc. Arc is a layer-1 blockchain introduced by Circle in October 2025 and designed specifically to develop stablecoin-native finance. The testnet has had participation of financial institutions, payment providers, and infrastructural providers, keen to identify an effective settlement pathway for regulated digital funds.
The participation of Arc by Bybit is an indicator of adherence to the new blockchain standards based on compliance, transparency, and scalable financial architecture, as Arc is developing.
Circle’s Regulatory Milestones Support Partnership Expansion
The Bybit and Circle alliance follows the exchange, expanding its regulatory presence in various jurisdictions. The firm, which was recently hit with questions regarding its compliance, recently received a license from the Securities and Commodities Authority of the UAE. This enables the exchange to act with extensive authorization in one of the most rapidly growing digital-asset areas. Further regulatory coverage has been extended in the European Economic Area, Turkey, and other markets, placing Bybit in a position of compliant global expansion.
Bybit Secures UAE’s First Virtual Asset Platform Operator License from Securities and Commodities Authority
Ben Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of Bybit, said: “Receiving the full Virtual Asset Platform Operator License from the SCA is a testament to Bybit’s unwavering commitment to… pic.twitter.com/IH5p3GbODz
— Bybit (@Bybit_Official) October 9, 2025
Circle officials emphasized that the collaboration is based on the vision of a stablecoin infrastructure that fits the institutional requirements of speed, reliability, and transparency. In the long-term growth plan, CEO Ben Zhou has underlined the need to incorporate the USDC scheme into the savings, trading, and payments framework of the platform.
The announcement comes at a time of a very strong pace of acceleration in the uptake of stablecoins in remittances, merchant payments, settlements between businesses, and digital marketplaces. The recent announcement of stablecoin settlement functionalities in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Bybit, earlier this year, joined hands with Mastercard to incorporate blockchain-based transaction layers into its processes.
💥BREAKING:
MASTERCARD AND CIRCLE TO ENABLE $USDC PAYMENTS ACROSS EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA. pic.twitter.com/imHSc5Lw5z
— Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) August 27, 2025
Likewise, the company just recently incorporated OwlTing into the Circle Payments Network to bring high-growth stablecoin markets in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. These advancements are part of an increased trend in the world where regulated stablecoins are being used as fundamental tools to enhance speed and cost-effectiveness in inter-border transactions
