Dedge Joins the Circle Alliance Program

Dedge Security is now a Certified Member of the Circle Alliance Program.

In 2026, USDC is something banks hold, custody, and issue against. The GENIUS Act gave institutions authority to custody stablecoins, Circle National Trust put the issuer under national bank supervision and reserves are BlackRock-managed, BNY Mellon-custodied with BNY now letting institutions mint USDC directly.

USDC circulation grew ~72% in 2025 to $75.3B, native across 30 chains.

Arc Powers Institutional Settlement

Circle's next move is infrastructure it owns end to end. Arc is an enterprise-grade, EVM-compatible Layer-1, with USDC as native gas and stablecoin FX built in. Its testnet opened in late October 2025 with 100+ partners, processing 150M+ transactions across ~1.5M wallets at ~half-second settlement.

The point isn't throughput, it's intent. Arc is built for regulated, predictable settlement, not speculation. Circle isn't just issuing an asset, it's building the rails it settles on.

Inside the Circle Alliance Program

A regulated digital dollar only becomes usable money when an ecosystem surrounds it: custody, compliance, payments, tooling, security. The Circle Alliance Program (launched Nov 2023) is that coordination layer, now 1,000-plus members across fintech, traditional finance, payments, banking, and Web3 infrastructure.

The weight around Circle shows where the demand is. Names any institution would recognize, Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Standard Chartered, DTCC, back Circle's Arc network as founding validators and partners, with BNY Mellon and BlackRock anchoring USDC's reserve and custody. Inside the Alliance itself, custody and treasury providers like Utila sit alongside the fintechs and infrastructure firms building on USDC.

"We're proud to join the Circle Alliance Program as USDC becomes true institutional infrastructure, now moving now moving trillions on-chain across 30 blockchains. At that scale, what keeps money safe isn't just the contract code, it's the configuration and governance around it. That's the drift Dedge is built to catch before funds move."

— Rubén Jiménez García, Co-Founder & CEO, Dedge

Where Dedge Fits in the Stack

Everything above hardens the institutional layer (custody, reserves & rails). But once value moves on-chain, a different surface decides whether it stays safe, the permission layer.

• Signers & thresholds: who can approve a transaction

• Governance timelocks: how long changes take to land

• Proxy admin keys: who can swap contract logic

• On-chain roles: who holds privileged control

Enterprise security learned long ago that systems drift from secure configuration the moment they go live, and only continuous monitoring catches it. On-chain permissions are no different, a timelock shortened, a 3-of-5 dropped to 2-of-5, a proxy swapped.

Audits certify code at a point in time. Several of the largest 2026 losses weren't broken contracts, they were configuration changes made after the audit passed.

Regulated money is moving on-chain at institutional scale. Keeping its security posture aligned is what makes that trust durable.

About Dedge

Dedge is a Web3-native security posture management platform giving institutions continuous risk visibility from code to chain, static analysis, dependency and secret scanning, compliance, and real-time on-chain monitoring including proxy-upgrade and anomaly detection.

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