About USD Coin
USD Coin (USDC) is a US-dollar-pegged stablecoin launched in 2018 by Circle Internet Financial in partnership with Coinbase under the Centre Consortium. Each USDC is intended to be backed one-to-one by US dollars and short-duration US Treasury securities held in segregated accounts. USDC is widely used as on-chain dollars for trading, payments, payroll, and DeFi, and is a core building block for many stablecoin-enabled fintech products.
USDC is issued natively on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, and many other networks via Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), which allows native burn-and-mint movement across chains. Circle publishes monthly reserve reports and weekly attestations from an independent accounting firm, and operates under multiple regulated money-transmitter licences. Mint and redeem flow through Circle's institutional API for verified business customers.
USDC is integrated across virtually every major centralized and decentralized exchange, lending protocol, payments platform, and on-chain treasury. Stripe, Visa, Shopify, and a growing list of fintechs use USDC for payouts and settlement. In DeFi, USDC anchors stablecoin pools on Curve and Uniswap, collateral on Aave and Maker, and yield strategies across multiple chains. Its regulated framing makes USDC a common choice for institutional and enterprise crypto deployments.
Crypto Market Watch tracks the live USD Coin price ranked #6 by market capitalisation, 24-hour and 7-day price changes, market capitalisation, trading volume, circulating supply, and all-time highs and lows on this page. Data refreshes continuously throughout the trading day so investors can monitor USDC market activity in real time.
