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.
Two senior bank leaders told Washington the US needs a market-structure framework, arguing that any stablecoin allowed to pay holders yield effectively rebuilds the deposit base outside the…
100.1M $USDC (≈100.2M) moved from USDC Treasury to Coinbase Institutional.
The world's largest custodian now lets institutions convert dollars into USDC and back from inside BNY wallets, a structural on-ramp for the same pension and treasury desks that already park cash at…
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
100M $USDC (≈100M) moved from #Ethena to unknown wallet.
101.7M $USDC (≈101.7M) moved from USDC Treasury to #Coinbase.
250M $USDC (250.1M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
190.1M $USDC (≈190.2M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
190.1M $USDC (≈190.2M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
Even at $1T–$3T in market cap, the BIS argues wider stablecoin adoption would strain bank funding and credit while delivering only modest output gains.
The grants target builders stranded by the stablecoin's wind-down, with HIP-1 and HIP-3 deployers, HyperEVM protocols, USDH:USDC bridges, and Native Markets all eligible if they migrate or shut down…
The $3B USDC injection into Circle's first-party Wall Street blockchain signals a strategic pivot from Coinbase dependency, but the partnership strain could reshape stablecoin settlement rails.
The four-year ban cleared the field for Circle and Tether, but the Fed was never close to launching a retail digital dollar.
190.1M $USDC (≈190.2M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
190.1M $USDC (≈190.1M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
Waller's framing pulls stablecoins out of the crypto silo and into the Fed's policy perimeter, where Treasury issuance, bank funding, and dollar liquidity all collide.
Japan's $440B daily FX market now anchors a four-stablecoin race: RLUSD gets the head start through SBI, USDC gains a corporate lane via Nomura, JPYSC holds the yen lane, and megabank issuance looms…
The test is whether a bankruptcy-remote SPV, qualified custody, and first-loss retention can give institutional capital a reason to underwrite crypto-collateralized loans at scale.
161.2M $USDC (≈161.3M) moved from #Kraken to unknown wallet.
190.1M $USDC (≈190M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
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.
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.
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.
Morgan Stanley's staking ETP launch lands on the same day the CLARITY Act hits a Senate wall, and the tape is forced to choose which story matters more.
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: "JPMorgan warns yield stablecoins could trigger shadow banking" — read at /en-US/a/jpmorgan-warns-yield-stablecoins-could-trigger-shadow.
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