USDC
USDC price
Price history, key statistics, and comparable assets for USDC.
$1.00
0.00% ($0.000000)
Historical prices
Price history
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Key statistics
- 24h previous price
- $1.00
- 24h range
- $1.00 to $1.00
- 52-week range
- $0.9983 to $1.00
- 24h volume
- 999.05M
- Market cap
- 72.09B
Profile
About USDC
USDC is classified as Cryptoasset. Its price comes from the timestamped Binance quote shown above; market cap and circulating supply are enriched by CoinGecko when available.
Editorial profile
USDC overview
USDC is a digital dollar issued by Circle and natively supported across multiple public blockchain networks. Circle provides minting, redemption, developer interfaces, and cross-chain transfer infrastructure around USDC. The USDC asset is therefore tied to this specific network, protocol, or issuer function rather than to a generic cryptocurrency category.
SourcesCircleUSDC has no independent consensus mechanism; each native deployment settles under its host blockchain's rules. Circle issues and redeems USDC against highly liquid dollar-denominated reserve assets, so supply is variable rather than capped. These mechanics describe how USDC is produced, issued, redeemed, burned, or used to secure its network; they do not imply any price outcome or investment view.
SourcesCircleA distinguishing feature is that Circle states that the majority of the USDC reserve is held in the Circle Reserve Fund, an SEC-registered government money market fund. Circle also documents USDC as a natively issued asset on many separate networks rather than a single bridged token. This named mechanism or use case is the asset-specific fact that separates USDC from tokens that may share a broad category but have different issuance, governance, or settlement designs.
SourcesCircleCircle- Asset type
- Stablecoin
- Network
- Multiple Circle-supported blockchains
- Supply mechanics
- Variable issuer-created supply that expands with minting and contracts with redemption.
- Issuer or steward
- Circle
- Peg mechanism
- Redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars and backed by highly liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets.
Primary sources
- USDC official product and reserve informationCircle · Retrieved 2026-08-10
- Circle supported assets documentationCircle · Retrieved 2026-08-10
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USDC questions
USDC questions
Who issues USDC?
USDC is issued through Circle affiliates and is designed to be redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars under Circle's terms.
Does USDC run only on Ethereum?
No. Circle natively issues USDC on multiple supported blockchain networks and documents those deployments for developers.
What supports the USDC peg?
Circle states that USDC is backed by highly liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets, with most reserves invested in the Circle Reserve Fund.
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