USDC is a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin designed to maintain a 1:1 peg with the U.S. dollar. Issued by Circle and originally developed through the CENTRE consortium, it serves as a bridge between traditional fiat currency and digital asset markets, allowing users to move dollar-equivalent value across blockchain networks and cryptocurrency exchanges. The token operates across a broad multi-chain footprint, with native issuance and support on ecosystems including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Aptos, Sui, Stellar, XRP Ledger, Hedera, NEAR, Tron, Celo, zkSync, StarkNet, and many others, making it one of the most widely deployed stablecoins in the industry. It is categorized as a fiat-backed stablecoin, with reserves held in cash and short-dated U.S. Treasuries and subject to regular third-party attestations. USDC is also recognized as MiCA-compliant, aligning it with the European Union's regulatory framework for crypto-asset markets, and is issued by a U.S.-based company. Its primary use case is providing a stable, dollar-denominated on-chain asset for trading, payments, lending, remittances, and decentralized finance applications.
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250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The first big-cloud / first big-exchange / first big-fintech convergence on agentic payments lands the same week Genius Act-era stablecoin issuance is consolidating around Anchorage — the rails and…
250M $USDC (249.9M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
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A single transfer of approximately 348 million USDC ($347,942,928) has been flagged moving out of Coinbase…
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A Stripe-owned payments executive argues the $260B+ USDT-USDC concentration is a structural drag on the sector — both issuers keep raising burn fees and neither fits every payments use case.
BIS chief Pablo Hernandez de Cos just called global cooperation on stablecoins "critically important" — the language of systemic risk, not investor protection.
Nine months after the GENIUS Act triggered a 49% stablecoin market expansion, the same coalition wants the broader digital asset framework to reach the President's desk before Congress adjourns — the…
Premier David Burt tied a second USDC distribution to next week's Digital Finance Forum, while Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal framed the island's tandem public-private rollout as a working counter-model to…
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
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USDC is a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin.
USDC (USDC) is categorised as: Aptos Ecosystem, Base Native, Injective Ecosystem.
The official USDC site is https://www.circle.com/en/usdc.
Most recent USDC coverage: "Bernstein reiterates Coinbase outperform with $330 target, 71% upside" — read at /en-US/a/bernstein-keeps-330-target-on-coinbase-sees-71-upside-as.
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