Circle, the company behind the $61 billion stablecoin USDC, made a roaring debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, becoming the first stablecoin issuer to go public and making CEO and cofounder Jeremy Allaire a billionaire.

Circle joins Coinbase, Mara Holdings and Riot Platforms as one of the few pure-play crypto companies to list in the U.S.

Circle priced its initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday at $31 per share, above the expected range of $24 to $26. The company sold around 34 million shares in the offering for a valuation of $1.1 billion. Bloomberg pegs the total amount raised in the IPO at $6.9 billion.

Circle Internet Group Inc. and some of its shareholders raised nearly $1.1 billion in an upsized initial public offering that was priced above a marketed range, in a sign that stablecoin issuers are winning greater acceptance.

Circle Internet on Wednesday priced its upsized U.S. initial public offering at $31 apiece, raising $1.05 billion, adding fresh momentum to a growing pipeline of late-stage cryptocurrency firms eyeing public markets.

SINGAPORE – Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of crypto company Ripple Labs, stated at the XRP Ledger Apex, the Ripple (XRP) community conference in Singapore, that he remains bullish on stablecoins – a sentiment he said is reinforced by the recent blockbuster Circle initial public offering (IPO).

Circle's CRCL stock debuted on the NYSE on June 5 when it opened at $69, more than 124% higher than the IPO price of $31. The CRCL stock hit a record high of $138.57 on 9 June as the news of ETF filings flew in. However, the stock closed at $ 107.10 on 10 June, a 7% drop in a day.

Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet's shares more than doubled in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, firing up the IPO market that has struggled to regain momentum.

Wall Street ETF issuers didn’t waste a second after Circle Internet Group Inc. launched its IPO last Thursday, according to Bloomberg. Within hours of the

Japan’s SBI Group has invested $50 million in Circle to help grow USDC. This shows strong support for stablecoins from big financial companies.

By the close of Circle Internet Group’s first trading day on Thursday, June 5, its stock had rocketed to $88, a 180% jump from the price institutional investors paid for their shares in the underwriting led by JP Morgan,

BitMEX Research suggests Circle's post-IPO rise and treasury-backed model could make it a safer, more profitable play than MicroStrategy.