• USD Coin coming to Stellar
    Stellar CEO and executive director Denelle Dixon announced that USD Coin is coming to Stellar (Photo: Stellar Foundation)
    Cryptocurrencies

    USD Coin coming to Stellar network

    The addition of the second-largest stablecoin adds an important source of liquidity to the international payments network

    October 15, 2020 /

    The announcement by Circle and Coinbase’s Centre Consortium makes the Stellar network the third blockchain to offer native support for USDC, joining Algorand and Ethereum.

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  • USDC passes $1 billion
    USD Coin hit an important milestone, but it's a long way behind Tether (Photo: CoinMarketCap)
    Alt coins

    Circle, Coinbase say USD Coin passes $1B

    The market cap milestone makes the USDC stablecoin a contender in a ring dominated by Tether

    July 3, 2020 /

    Working together as the Centre Consortium, the firms claimed in a blog post that USDC reached that milestone quicker than any other digital dollar stablecoin. Most of that increase came on June 22, when the supply jumped from about $731 million to $920 million—rising by about one-third.

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