Stable, programmable liquidity
USDC unites people, businesses and communities around a common purpose: building a more open, prosperous world.
Foundational. Composable.
Built to last.
USDC is a core building block of the crypto economy, serving as a trusted, interoperable, and highly liquid digital dollar for thousands of projects running on the world’s leading blockchains.
As the issuer of USDC, Circle is committed to supporting developers globally across blockchain communities and helping to deliver the vision of a free, open, and permissionless internet.
Whether you’re just getting started or consider yourself a seasoned developer, it’s easy to integrate USDC into your app or dApp today. USDC is open-source, composable, and accessible for anyone to build upon.
More than just a stablecoin
USDC is an open platform for digital dollars running on global, always-on infrastructure. Developers build on USDC to connect their products to an uber-money API that delivers 24/7 liquidity and near-instant payments to anyone with an internet connection.
Leading payment service providers built on USDC to transcend the traditional banking system’s limitations and deliver real-time settlement to their customers.
Institutional DeFi protocols like Credix use USDC for stable, programmable liquidity their users can trust. Novel DeFi apps like Friktion leverage USDC in on-chain structured products as their trusted digital dollar of choice.
USDC’s reach is ever-growing as Circle continues to bring USDC to more of the world’s leading blockchains and contribute to open crypto payment standards. USDC is a platform designed to keep pace with the speed of Web3 innovation.
A global ecosystem, built on USDC
Businesses around the globe are tapping new markets and unleashing new growth potential with USDC today. Explore how developers are building on USDC’s platform, and submit your project for users to discover.
Algorand is one of the world's most decentralized, scalable, and secure blockchain infrastructure. From decentralized finance to generative NFT art (and everything in between), our sustainable blockchain is powering economic models of the future.
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Arbitrum is a layer 2 (L2) scaling solution for Ethereum that went live on mainnet in August 2021. Arbitrum uses Optimistic Rollups to increase the number of transactions that can be processed in parallel and reduce costs, while benefiting from the shared security of the layer 1 (L1) Ethereum blockchain.
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Avalanche is an open, programmable smart contracts platform for decentralized applications. Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. Avalanche is Solidity-compatible, so all of your favorite tools like Remix, Truffle, and Tenderly work out of the box.
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Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users on-chain. Built on the OP Stack, Base enables developers to confidently deploy any EVM codebase and on-ramp users and assets from Ethereum L1, Coinbase, and other interoperable chains.
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Ethereum is open access to digital money and data-friendly services for everyone – no matter your background or location. It's a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of applications you can use today.
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Flow is a new blockchain built for the next generation of apps, games, and the digital assets that power them. Flow is easy to use and powerful to build with. Every aspect of the platform was designed from the ground up to support exceptional user experience at mainstream scale.
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Hedera is an enterprise-grade public network for you to make your digital world exactly as it should be – yours. Whether you're a startup or enterprise, a creator or consumer, Hedera goes beyond blockchain for developers to create the next era of fast, fair, and secure applications.
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NEAR Protocol is a high-performance blockchain featuring a unique scaling solution based on ‘sharding’ to deliver low-cost transactions that can settle in seconds. Developers can build on NEAR with familiar programming languages like JavaScript and Rust to accelerate time-to-market.
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Noble is an appchain purpose-built for native asset issuance in Cosmos and the boundless Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) ecosystem. Dozens of appchains can access USDC issued on Noble via an integration leveraging IBC that is simple, safe and seamless.
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OP Mainnet is a layer 2 (L2) scaling solution for Ethereum, designed to increase transaction throughput and streamline costs. OP Mainnet uses optimistic rollup technology, which bundles together transactions to boost efficiency while leveraging the underlying security of Ethereum.
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Polkadot is a network of many sovereign blockchains, also known as parachains. Parachains enable parallel execution to allow for faster transactions while contributing to Polkadot’s shared security and decentralization. Polkadot Asset Hub is a common-good parachain that’s designed for efficiently deploying, storing, and transferring digital assets. From Polkadot Asset Hub, digital assets can be readily transferred to parachains via the XCM protocol.
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Polygon PoS is a scalable proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain that complements Ethereum’s decentralized security with faster settlement times and greater cost efficiency. Businesses and developers can create applications on Polygon PoS that appeal to the general public and benefit from near-instant, near-zero cost transactions worldwide.
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Solana is a decentralized blockchain built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps for the world. Solana ensures composability between ecosystem projects by maintaining a single global state as the network scales.
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The Stellar network is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable blockchain built for financial products and services. It offers builders a protocol optimized for payments, with a design intended to keep fees low and to provide transaction speeds that can scale with increased adoption.
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TRON is one of the largest blockchain-based operating systems in the world, offering public blockchain support of high throughput, high scalability, and high availability for all Decentralized Applications (DApps) in the TRON ecosystem.
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Maximize your vision.
Do more with USDC.
As an open-source, programmable dollar with global reach, USDC is powerful market infrastructure you can begin building with immediately. Circle exists to make it even faster and easier for developers to realize their vision for USDC.
We believe the ability to rapidly test and iterate is critical to shipping great products. Use Circle’s multi-chain testnet faucet to begin experimenting with USDC flows within your project.
Circle offers composable APIs for programmable payments and wallet infrastructure. Access Circle Sandbox today to generate wallets, accept and make USDC payments, and manage funds flow between users.
Reach out to us if you’re interested in the production version of Circle’s payments and treasury platform.
Setting a standard for stablecoin legislation
USDC is often viewed as the blueprint to follow for designing a regulated digital currency. At the highest level, Circle works closely with US congressional leaders to align the open values of Web3 with the traditional financial system and help create our harmonious, interconnected future.
