The stock of Circle Internet Group (NYSE: $CRCL) is down 5% after the stablecoin issuer reported mixed financial results.
For the year’s second quarter, Circle posted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.18 U.S., which topped analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.16 U.S.
However, revenue in the April through June period totaled $701 million U.S., missing forecasts of $712 million U.S.
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Circle’s dollar-backed stablecoin (CRYPTO: $USDC) continued to expand in the latest quarter, with circulation reaching $73.3 billion U.S., up 19% from a year earlier.
That said, the circulation of USDC was down from a peak of nearly $80 billion U.S. reached earlier this year amid growing competition in the stablecoin space.
Along with its earnings, Circle offered an update on Arc, its blockchain network that’s scheduled to launch a public mainnet on Sept. 16 of this year.
Circle said more than 100 ecosystem and institutional builders are developing on Arc.
The network’s validators include asset manager BlackRock (NYSE: $BLK), credit card giants Mastercard (NYSE: $MA) and Visa (NYSE: $V), and Standard Chartered ($STAN) bank.
Management at Circle said their strategy is to position Arc as infrastructure for tokenized assets and institutional payments.
Circle also reported that its Circle Payments Network reached $14.7 billion U.S. in annualized transaction volume during Q2, up 76% from the previous quarter.
Before today (Aug. 5), CRCL stock had declined 60% over the past 12 months to trade at $61.20 U.S. per share.
