USDC and CCTP are now live on Injective, enabling dollar-denominated collateral, efficient settlement, and seamless crosschain USDC transfers for DeFi applications.
USDC and Circle CCTP are now live on Injective, bringing trusted digital dollars and crosschain connectivity to its vast ecosystem.
Injective is a Layer-1 (L1) blockchain designed to be optimized for building premier onchain finance applications. With integrated financial primitives and plug-and-play modules, developers can create robust, high-throughput capital markets with low latency and near-zero transaction fees. This efficiency enables builders to rapidly launch onchain exchanges, lending protocols, payment gateways, RWAs, and more with performance standards comparable to centralized counterparts.
Injective supports virtual machine (VM) integrations with Ethereum (EVM), Solana (SVM), and WebAssembly (WASM), which unlocks DeFi-friendly crosschain liquidity and use cases. USDC and CCTP bolster this interoperability to facilitate simplified onchain composability.
With USDC and CCTP now available, Injective users can access the world’s largest regulated¹ stablecoin and securely engage in crosschain transfers. Together, these capabilities are intended to support low-latency and high-frequency trading, lending, payments, and other DeFi use cases.
Benefits of USDC and CCTP on Injective
USDC on Injective is designed to provide a trusted digital dollar that can be used for trading, lending, and other DeFi activity. USDC on Injective offers features like:
- A regulated,1 fully reserved stablecoin redeemable 1:1 for US dollars2
- Enables institutional on/offramps like Circle Mint3 for eligible users
- Integrates easily into Injective’s crosschain trading ecosystem
Meanwhile, CCTP is intended to simplify USDC transfers across supported blockchains without relying on wrapped assets. CCTP on Injective enables developers to:
- Securely and efficiently move USDC between Injective and other supported blockchains
- Build apps directly on the protocol layer that support high-performance DeFi trading
Key use cases for USDC on Injective
USDC on Injective is designed to be a core trading and collateral asset across the Injective ecosystem, supporting traders who seek high-performance spot and derivatives trading in a DeFi environment. USDC settles directly on Injective, enabling reliable trading performance without the trust assumptions of bridged assets. Injective features powerful onchain primitives (like its decentralized central limit order book, or CLOB) that support app developers and traders looking for permissionless performance. With near-zero gas fees and sub-second finality, USDC on Injective also unlocks agentic finance use cases where autonomous agents can execute micro-transactions, settle payments, and manage collateral programmatically at scale.
USDC on Injective is also intended to support crosschain functionality through CCTP. It allows USDC to move across supported blockchains in a fast, low-cost, and capital efficient manner. This helps CEXs, digital wallets, apps, and developers offer seamless crosschain transactions while maintaining trading liquidity. This is particularly useful for Injective as its VM infrastructure integrations already support EVM, SVM, and WASM.
Lastly, USDC on Injective will support protocol revenue flows and onchain payments. As a highly liquid, regulated, and fully reserved stablecoin, USDC can support powerful DeFi trading for both retail and institutional trading activity within the Injective ecosystem.
Explore USDC on Injective apps
Builders are choosing USDC on Injective for their traders and users. To learn more, check out Injective’s growing app ecosystem.
USDC on Injective, issued by Circle1
Token Name: USDC
Token Symbol: USDC
Mainnet Address: 0xa00C59fF5a080D2b954d0c75e46E22a0c371235a
Testnet Address: 0x0C382e685bbeeFE5d3d9C29e29E341fEE8E84C5d
Get started with USDC on Injective
Businesses and enterprises can access on/offramps to convert fiat currency to USDC on Injective by applying for a Circle Mint3 account. Individuals, small institutions, and those without a mint account can also access USDC through a wide array of wallets, exchanges, and other accessible options that support USDC. Visit USDC.com to learn more.
Get started today with our developer docs for USDC and CCTP on Injective. USDC is an open-source, permissionless protocol that anyone can use or build on.
1 USDC is issued by regulated affiliates of Circle. A list of Circle’s regulatory authorizations can be found here.
2 Circle Mint customers are able to redeem USDC directly from Circle. In addition, Circle will redeem all USDC presented to it for redemption in compliance with MiCAR, regardless of whether the holder is a Circle Mint customer. Circle Mint is currently available only to institutions and is not available to individuals.
3 Circle Mint and money transmission services are provided by Circle Internet Financial, LLC, NMLS # 1201441, and Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS, Electronic Money Institution License No. 17788, when provided in France. A list of Circle’s regulatory authorizations can be found here. Circle Mint is currently available only to institutions and is not available to individuals.
