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Stable, programmable liquidity

USDC unites people, businesses and communities around a common purpose:
building a more open, prosperous world.
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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 sole 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.

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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.

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A global ecosystem, built on USDC

Businesses around the globe are tapping new markets and unleashing new growth potential with USDC today. Explore all the ways developers are building on USDC’s platform, and submit your project for users to discover.

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Multichain

Interoperable for a multichain world

USDC is available natively on 8 blockchains, with more integrations expected. For EVM-compatible chains and Flow, USDC is deployed via smart contract. For non-EVM chains, USDC uses built-in token primitives.

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Ethereum USDC
Total Supply1 $26.6B
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xa0...eb48
Testnet Address 0x07...a37F
Multichain Ethereum
Total Supply1 $26.6B
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xa0...eb48
Testnet Address 0x07...a37F

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.

Learn more about Ethereum USDC

 

Top Projects using Ethereum USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Solana USDC
Total Supply1 $625M
Token Standard SPL
Mainnet Address EPjF...Dt1v
Testnet Address 4zMM...ncDU
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Total Supply1 $625M
Token Standard SPL
Mainnet Address EPjF...Dt1v
Testnet Address 4zMM...ncDU

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.

Learn more about Solana USDC

 

Top Projects using Solana USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Avalanche USDC
Total Supply1 $459M
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xB9...8a6E
Testnet Address 0x54...Bc65
Multichain Avalanche
Total Supply1 $459M
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xB9...8a6E
Testnet Address 0x54...Bc65

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.

Learn more about Avalanche USDC

 

Top Projects using Avalanche USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Tron USDC
Total Supply1 $377M
Token Standard TRC-20
Mainnet Address TEkx...rdz8
Testnet Address TFGB...Pjnh
Multichain TRON
Total Supply1 $377M
Token Standard TRC-20
Mainnet Address TEkx...rdz8
Testnet Address TFGB...Pjnh

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.

Learn more about TRON USDC

 

Top Projects using TRON USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Algorand USDC
Total Supply1 $106M
Token Standard ASA
Mainnet Address 31566704
Testnet Address 10458941
Multichain Algorand
Total Supply1 $106M
Token Standard ASA
Mainnet Address 31566704
Testnet Address 10458941

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.

Learn more about Algorand USDC

 

Top Projects using Algorand USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Stellar USDC
Total Supply1 $87.4M
Token Standard Stellar Asset
Mainnet Address USDC...KZVN
Testnet Address USDC...FLA5
Multichain Stellar
Total Supply1 $87.4M
Token Standard Stellar Asset
Mainnet Address USDC...KZVN
Testnet Address USDC...FLA5

Stellar is an open network for storing and moving money. Stellar makes it possible to create, send, and trade digital representations of all forms of money: dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network.

Learn more about Stellar USDC

 

Top Projects using Stellar USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Flow USDC
Total Supply1 $8.49M
Token Standard Flow Token
Mainnet Address A.b1...oken
Testnet Address A.a9...oken
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Total Supply1 $8.49M
Token Standard Flow Token
Mainnet Address A.b1...oken
Testnet Address A.a9...oken

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.

Learn more about Flow USDC

 

Top Projects using Flow USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Hedera USDC
Total Supply1 $4.2M
Token Standard Hedera Token
Mainnet Address 0.0.456858
Testnet Address 0.0.2276691
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Total Supply1 $4.2M
Token Standard Hedera Token
Mainnet Address 0.0.456858
Testnet Address 0.0.2276691

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.

Learn more about Hedera USDC

 

Top Projects using Hedera USDC

1 As of June 11, 2023

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Arbitrum USDC
Total Supply1 $66.5M
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xaf...5831
Testnet Address 0xfd...2d63
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Total Supply1 $66.5M
Token Standard ERC-20
Mainnet Address 0xaf...5831
Testnet Address 0xfd...2d63

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.

Learn more about Arbitrum USDC

 

Top Projects using Arbitrum USDC

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Bridged

Extensible to any blockchain

With the help of public bridge infrastructure, USDC can be easily bridged* from any of its native blockchain implementations to reach additional chains.

Polygon USDC*

Bridged from Ethereum via the Polygon Bridge, Polygon USDC can be transacted on the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain.

Fantom USDC

Bridged from Ethereum via the Multichain Bridge, Fantom USDC can be transacted on the Fantom blockchain.

NEAR USDC

Bridged from Ethereum via the Rainbow Bridge, NEAR USDC can be transacted on the NEAR blockchain.

Arbitrum USDC

Bridged from Ethereum via the Arbitrum Bridge, Arbitrum USDC can be transacted on the Arbitrum Layer 2 (L2) network.

There are many other examples of bridged USDC in Web3, including (but not limited to) bridged versions on: Optimism, Harmony, Moonriver, Metis, Moonbeam, Orbit, Osmosis, Evmos, Sifchain and more. With the help of cross-chain bridges, USDC is extensible across blockchains and throughout emerging ecosystems such as Cosmos and Polkadot.

*Please note that the Circle Account only supports native versions of USDC and the following bridged versions of USDC: Polygon USDC.

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.

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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.

To unlock use cases for automated fiat on/off-ramps and wallet-like experiences, Circle builds composable APIs for payments and treasury functionality – enabling you to do more with USDC. Access Circle’s sandbox to generate deposit addresses, accept fiat and crypto payments, make fiat and crypto payouts, and manage end-user balances.

Reach out to us if you’re interested in the production version of Circle’s payments and treasury platform.

FAQ

No, USDC is permissionless, open-source and accessible to anyone to build with. You can add support for USDC in your app or dApp without needing a commercial business relationship with Circle.

If you’re interested in Circle’s APIs, you can start testing for free with a sandbox key.

Circle aims to bring native USDC to all of the largest blockchain ecosystems in Web3.

In addition, the Web3 community has built permissionless bridge infrastructure to enable USDC to flow across blockchains as a bridged asset and add liquidity to emerging ecosystems.

The Centre Consortium, a stablecoin standards organization founded by Circle and Coinbase, has set forth guidelines for blacklisting policies. If an individual violates U.S. law and is pursued by law enforcement, Circle will follow appropriate financial crime compliance measures, including Centre’s Network Access Denial Policy, as applicable.

In response to court orders and sanctions compliance, Circle has the ability to deny access to individual wallet addresses from sending and receiving USDC. When an address is denied access, it can no longer receive USDC and USDC held by that address cannot be transferred on-chain.

We take this responsibility very seriously and can share the following data:

  • As of 5/26/22: Of the total $53B+ USDC in circulation, only $2.7M USDC is currently blocked. A total of 38 unique addresses have ever been blocked to date, all of which comply with OFAC sanctions and court orders.

Importantly, the blocking of addresses emits events on-chain, and we encourage the community to monitor those events. Blocking is never done unilaterally or arbitrarily and follows the highest duty of care.

The U.S. government acts through its agencies which must follow the law. There is currently no law that would permit any agency to compel Circle to KYC every holder of USDC. Additionally, Circle does not track every individual who holds USDC.

There is currently bipartisan recognition, at all levels of the U.S. government, that public blockchains and well-regulated stablecoins like USDC are important to U.S. economic competitiveness. Circle expects to see a variety of proposals from the U.S. Congress for how to best regulate - not ban - stablecoins.

USDC reserves (cash and short-dated U.S. treasuries) are held in accounts designated ‘for the benefit of customers’ and there are bankruptcy protections. Circle does not and will not use USDC reserves to run its business or to pay its debts. U.S. money transmitter laws are in place to protect holders of USDC in the unlikely event that Circle could not operate its business.

The key factors to consider for choosing a stablecoin are: (1) what is backing the reserves; (2) how are the reserves managed; and (3) how large and diversified is the market for the stablecoin. There is no other stablecoin that compares to USDC on its reserves backing, reserves management, and liquidity across public blockchains.

As open-source code, USDC can be integrated, bought, sold, lent, borrowed, traded, and spent without ever touching Circle’s commercial products and services. The universe of protocols, wallets, exchanges, merchants, and other market participants that support USDC is expanding because USDC represents stability you can trust. Fully-backed by cash and short-dated U.S. treasuries, USDC is always redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars.

Setting a blueprint for

stablecoin standards.

USDC is often looked to as the blueprint to replicate for digital currency architecture. At the highest level, Circle works closely with U.S. congressional leaders to align the open values of Web3 with the traditional financial system and help create our harmonious, interconnected future.

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