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.
Chris Perkins argues the $2.7T crypto market has already proven it can grow and attract institutional capital without a federal framework — even as Senate delays push the bill's path further.
Treasury, OCC and FDIC are turning the statute into an operating manual — and the fixed-cost compliance burden it imposes could squeeze smaller issuers while cementing an advantage for banks, large…
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
MoonPay has introduced the MoonAgents Card, enabling AI agents to spend stablecoins directly from on-chain wallets…
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The product is a direct bet that stablecoin rails are mature enough to distribute institutional credit — and the timing lands in the middle of Washington's bank-versus-crypto fight over yield on the…
A 294-134 House vote last July proved the bill can pass — the question is whether the Senate can hold the coalition together through stablecoin yield, DeFi, and ethics friction before the 2026…
The footprint widened by five networks in a single update, but the structural story is settlement, not speculation: USDC is becoming a real rail between issuers, acquirers, banks and treasury systems…
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
Coinbase's asset management arm is moving into structured credit, offering a new fund that combines stablecoin yield…
The corporate endorsement is the headline — but the rollout starts in two countries and runs through Stripe, a deliberately narrow test that will be judged on adoption metrics before scale, not…
Four years after Libra died, Meta is back with a USDC payout pilot for creators in Colombia and the Philippines, and a Goldman-anchored TAM of $25B to $48B per year in stablecoin creator flows.
The wallet-clearing pace is steady, not panic — and Vitalik's public address is a perennial on-chain signal investors track for what the Ethereum creator is rotating out of.
The card network is settling roughly $7B annualized onchain and now supports 130+ stablecoin-linked card programs across 50+ countries — the rails are no longer a sandbox.
The exit timing — full Aave repayment and fund withdrawal in the same move — is the read worth more than the 8,500 ETH print itself.
The criticism pits Tether's freeze track record against Circle's silence in a public call to action — and raises the question of whether selling USDC is the lever that moves a $60B stablecoin issuer.
Two emerging markets with large freelance and creator economies get the first crack at stablecoin rails from a Big Tech balance sheet — a real-world test for the thesis Diem never got to run.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
A transfer of 195,007,439 USDC — roughly $195 million — has been recorded moving from Coinbase Institutional to an…
A transfer of 195,007,439 USDC — roughly $195 million at par — has been recorded moving from the USDC Treasury to an…
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: "Franklin Templeton: $2.7T Crypto Market "Fine" Without Clarity Act" — read at /en-US/a/franklin-templeton-exec-crypto-is-just-fine-even-if-the.
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