USDC (USDC)

your users don't hate crypto. they hate gas. on @Arc, gas is USDC. a fee quoted in cents is a fee paid in cents. no second token to buy, no native balance to explain, nothing to top up before someone can send $5. so builders, honest question: what's the app you shelved because explaining gas to normal people would've killed it? i'll go first in the replies 👇

this post just revealed how fragile trust in defi has become. but there are still credible places to earn stablecoin yield with relatively lower risk. here are 9 defi protocols worth exploring if you still have some capital left (in no specific order): 1 | @aave: USDC on Ethereum is paying around 3.32% APY, with over $2.12B supplied. no lockup. you earn interest paid by overcollateralized borrowers and can withdraw whenever sufficient liquidity is available. 2 | @sparkdotfi: USDC on Spark is paying around 3.70% supply APY. deposit USDC, earn yield from borrowers and withdraw the same asset without entering an LP position. 3 | @MorphoLabs: the Steakhouse Prime USDC vault on Base is paying around 4.05% net APY, with over $228M deposited. Steakhouse allocates the USDC across Morpho lending markets backed mainly by blue-chip crypto and RWA collateral. 4 | @0xfluid: USDC on Ethereum is currently paying around 4.26% net APR. the rate moves with borrowing demand, and there is no LP position or fixed ma

Steve(s) update! The agents have officially touched grass. Sort of. Last match, they made predictions on @Polymarket, spent USDC, and started chasing a dream: earn enough for a ticket to the biggest match of the year. Some cooked. Some got cooked. Final stretch starts tomorrow: https://t.co/ZqxNAViQwr

$USDC on Hyperliquid monthly transfer volume more than doubles to $45.5B in June. https://t.co/NWXy2zhlLW

More than a dozen new dollar-backed stablecoins launched this quarter. From OpenUSD with over 140 partners, to SoFi’s entry through a national bank, to Tether’s upcoming U.S.-focused stablecoin, the market is accelerating toward a new era of digital dollars. The market clearly picked up on a trend and started using the best blockchain has to offer. But this trend also asks a question not many people talk about. If I hold one digital dollar and you hold another, are they truly the same when markets come under stress? Central banks call the thing that makes this work the singleness of money. A $20 bill from one bank is worth the same as the one from another. Stablecoins don't get it for free. USDC traded near $0.87 in March 2023. Very soon the trend is going to move from launching a stablecoin to building a native issuance and setting up guardrails for the worst case scenarios.

this post just revealed how fragile trust in defi has become. but there are still credible places to earn stablecoin yield with relatively lower risk. here are 9 defi protocols worth exploring if you still have some capital left (in no specific order): 1 | @aave: USDC on Ethereum is paying around 3.32% APY, with over $2.12B supplied. no lockup. you earn interest paid by overcollateralized borrowers and can withdraw whenever sufficient liquidity is available. 2 | @sparkdotfi: USDC on Spark is paying around 3.70% supply APY. deposit USDC, earn yield from borrowers and withdraw the same asset without entering an LP position. 3 | @MorphoLabs: the Steakhouse Prime USDC vault on Base is paying around 4.05% net APY, with over $228M deposited. Steakhouse allocates the USDC across Morpho lending markets backed mainly by blue-chip crypto and RWA collateral. 4 | @0xfluid: USDC on Ethereum is currently paying around 4.26% net APR. the rate moves with borrowing demand, and there is no LP position or fixed ma

What a week for @circle and @USDC. Just in the past 7 days: • Circle received final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust, bringing USDC infrastructure under a federally regulated trust bank framework. • USDC served as the preferred stablecoin for the cash leg of transactions behind @The_DTCC’s move into live, production‑grade tokenization. • Marex began allowing clients to post USDC as margin for derivatives, bringing stablecoins into institutional clearing and collateral workflows. • Circle signed an agreement with JCB, Japan’s largest card network, to explore USDC‑powered cross‑border payments and merchant transactions. • Circle Gateway and Circle Payments Network became natively accessible through @FireblocksHQ, making it easier for institutions to manage USDC across chains and settle payments globally. • Circle joined the @x402Foundation as a founding member, helping establish an open standard for internet‑native payments across AI agents, APIs, and applications. • Circle partnered with