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.
The bridging capital model turns the slow primary-market redemption window into a near-instant secondary exit, with LPs earning receipt tokens on the spread between primary and secondary pricing.
The deal pairs Coinbase's regulated stablecoin infrastructure with Hyperliquid's perps volume — and clears the way for the venue's homegrown USDH to be wound down.
The strategic round pushes total funding past $65M and signals a deeper stablecoin-infrastructure convergence: Circle's venture arm backing the wallet stack that signs USDC flows.
The deal gives Coinbase treasury control over the $5B USDC pool on crypto's fastest-growing perp DEX — and the right to absorb the rival USDH brand before it sunsets.
Coinbase has been appointed the official USDC treasury deployer on Hyperliquid, the high-performance decentralised…
The swap signals Hyperliquid abandoning a homegrown stablecoin for Circle's USDC as the venue's aligned quote asset — a quiet win for Circle, and an admission that USDH never found product fit.
Circle has minted 500 million USDC directly on the Solana blockchain in a single transaction, a move that signals a…
Two deep-pocketed wallets — one laddering limit orders across $30.88 to $35.88, the other filling a 62,230-HYPE block — landed within hours of each other, a coordinated bid at a time when HYPE's…
138.1M $USDC (≈138.1M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
138.1M $USDC (≈138M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
348M $USDC (≈348M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to #Coinbase.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The flood of edits — touching stablecoin oversight, ethics rules and DeFi provisions — shows the bill's scope is still in flux a day before the committee votes.
The tie-up gives Ricardo Salinas Pliego's conglomerate access to USD-pegged stablecoin infrastructure — and adds another TradFi heavyweight to the dollarized cross-border thesis.
SOL joins BTC and ETH as a third major collateral tier on Coinbase's Morpho-based lending product, with a 70% LTV cap — and a $2.3B cumulative origination base means real borrow demand behind it.
The CPI dip-and-recover sets the day's tone, but the more durable read is on the institutional plumbing: a $250M USDC mint, Hyperliquid's first ETF, and JPMorgan's tokenized money-market fund for…
The address has absorbed 21,800 ETH at an average of $2,155 — a steady, multi-week accumulation pattern rather than a one-off splash.
250M $USDC (249.8M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
a16z, BlackRock, Apollo, and ICE buying into Circle's new L1 forces the question every holder of USDC had hoped wouldn't surface: the clean issuer-distributor pact with Coinbase no longer has…
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
Where Zipp's editorial desk has weighed in on this token.
A $70M hardware-wallet drain lands the same week Treasury and the Senate try to cage the asset in policy. Bitcoin's macro thesis gets tested on two fronts at once.
One regulator hands Circle a charter and a senator invokes Satoshi to move a market-structure bill, while a hardware-wallet bug quietly rewrites the cost of self-custody.
Consensus priced in a dovish pivot and got three dissents instead. The regime gap between risk-on equities and stalled BTC is where the next move is hiding.
Bitcoin sits near $64K while a $38M wallet exploit, a fading CLARITY Act, and a stubborn Fed crowd out every bullish headline.
A 9-3 hawkish split, a stalled Clarity Act, and a near-record low July for Bitcoin ETFs reveal which jurisdictions are quietly eating US lunch.
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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: "Upshift Vault Platform Delivers Instant RWA Redemptions via USDC" — read at /en-US/a/upshift-launches-usdc-vault-platform-to-deliver-instant.
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