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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A ranked snapshot of the top stablecoins by circulating supply, with USDT holding the dominant share despite tighter competition from USDC, Ethena's USDe, and bank-issued tokens.
The x402 protocol rollout stitches agent, business, and developer rails into one stack: Coinbase is positioning itself as the payments spine of the agentic economy before a standard settles.
Coinbase Business is opening agentic payment acceptance to all clients one year in, framing the rail as a core growth bet rather than an experiment.
Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
The Arbitrum bridge itself held, but five hot-validator signatures cleared the quorum on a third-party bridge and let the attacker walk away with the protocol's entire TVL.
Blockaid flags the loss to a third-party bridge, not Arbitrum's native one, and Offchain Labs says the core bridge is unaffected while it investigates.
250M $USDC (250.1M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The downgrade hinges not on the bill itself but on the 140-company Open USD consortium behind it, which Mizuho says could fragment Circle's issuer revenue if the law passes.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
191.3M $USDC (≈191.4M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
191.4M $USDC (≈191.4M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
100M $USDC (≈100M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
Roughly 5% of all stablecoin float now sits on a chain that was a rounding error in the sector two years ago, with Circle, Tether and Paxos all leaning in.
Two distinct accumulation patterns on the same day, fresh wallets buying off Binance and a dormant address returning after 90 days, frame the bid as institutional in shape, not just retail.
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.
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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: "Circle buys ~1,000 blockchain patents from IBM, tops US holders" — read at /en-US/a/circle-buys-1000-blockchain-patents-from-ibm-tops-us-holders.
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