[New post] The USDC Stablecoin Will Soon Expand Its Reach To 10 More Networks
Crypto Breaking News posted: "The second biggest stablecoin by market capitalization is already a multi-blockchain project. Soon, though, USDC will live almost everywhere. According to Coindesk, it will soon be available in, "Avalanche, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Kava, Nervos, Polkadot, Stac"
The second biggest stablecoin by market capitalization is already a multi-blockchain project. Soon, though, USDC will live almost everywhere. According to Coindesk, it will soon be available in, "Avalanche, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Kava, Nervos, Polkadot, Stacks, Tezos, and Tron." That will bring the total to 14; since USDC is already functional in Ethereum, Algorand, Stellar, and Solana.
The biggest stablecoin, Tether or USDT, is only available in 8 of those. Currently, the most used stablecoin is Tron's version of USDT.
"We anticipate that USDC on these blockchain platforms and multichain protocols will further accelerate the use of the world's fastest growing digital dollar currency."
The consortium that runs USDC, CENTRE, is a joint venture between Coinbase and payments processor Circle. The information comes from, "a draft announcement from USDC administrator CENTRE obtained by CoinDesk."
For this, we have to go back to the academy. Coinzilla informs us:
USDC is one of the fastest-growing stablecoins pegged 1 to 1 to the US Dollar.
What is more remarkable is that Circle, the company that developed the stablecoin, is actually holding the amount of money required for backing the USDC in circulation.
That's definitely a show at USDT. Tether's audit and legal issues have been a topic of contention in the cryptocurrencies community for a while now. Can they back all the Tether they've minted? A burning question that's harder to answer than you'd think.
is an ERC-20 token that functions through the Ethereum Network. Nowadays, USDC transactions can also be settled through Algorand, Solana, and Stellar's infrastructures.
Since the launch of USDC 2.0, the payment process is simplified, the gas fees being paid directly in USDC.
The official love affair between the US government and USDC started last January, when Jeremy Allaire from Circle announced that, "the largest US banking regulator with new guidance allowing US banks to use public blockchains and dollar stablecoins as a settlement infrastructure in the US financial system." According to him, "Decentralized, permissionless, open source and internet mediated software is literally becoming the foundation for not just the US financial system but for the global economy."
3/ The new interpretive letter establishes that banks can treat public chains as infrastructure similar to SWIFT, ACH and FedWire, and stablecoins like USDC as electronic stored value. The significance of this can't be understated.
Recently Randal K. Quarles, the Federal Reserve's Vice Chair for Supervision, considerably raised the stakes:
In my judgment, we do not need to fear stablecoins. The Federal Reserve has traditionally supported responsible private-sector innovation. Consistent with this tradition, I believe that we must take strong account of the potential benefits of stablecoins, including the possibility that a U.S. dollar stablecoin might support the role of the dollar in the global economy. For example, a global U.S. dollar stablecoin network could encourage use of the dollar by making cross-border payments faster and cheaper, and it potentially could be deployed much faster and with fewer downsides than a CBDC.
Will stablecoins like USDC and USDT substitute the Digital Dollar project? Could they be an alternative to CBDCs? We'll have to wait and see.
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