1. Introduction 

USDC provides a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin and is based on the open source asset-backed stablecoin framework developed by CENTRE.

As crypto assets have grown in their importance and adoption, it’s become vital to be able to use fiat currencies for payments and trading. A price-stable currency such as the US dollar (and similar stable currencies such as EUR, GBP, JPY, RMB, etc.) is critical for enabling mainstream adoption of blockchain technology for payments, as well as to support maturation in financial contracts built on smart contract platforms, such as tokenized securities, loans, and property.

Existing approaches have lacked financial and operational transparency, have operated in unregulated offshore jurisdictions with unknown banking and audit partners, and have been built as closed-loop ecosystems and closed source technologies.

USDC solves these problems by offering a solution with detailed financial and operational transparency, operating within the regulated framework of US money transmission laws, with established banking partners and auditors, and is built on an open source framework with an open membership scheme that eligible financial institutions can participate in.

2. Useful Links

• Official Website: https://www.centre.io/usdc
• White Paper: https://www.centre.io/pdfs/centre-whitepaper.pdf
• Explorer:
• ERC20:https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48
• SOL: https://solana.fm/address/EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v
• TRC20: https://tronscan.org/#/token20/TEkxiTehnzSmSe2XqrBj4w32RUN966rdz8
• ALGO: https://algoscan.app/asset/31566704
• BEP20: https://bscscan.com/token/0x8ac76a51cc950d9822d68b83fe1ad97b32cd580d
• POLYGON: https://polygonscan.com/token/0x2791bca1f2de4661ed88a30c99a7a9449aa84174
• OP: https://optimistic.etherscan.io/token/0x0b2C639c533813f4Aa9D7837CAf62653d097Ff85
• ARBI(Bridged): https://arbiscan.io/token/0xff970a61a04b1ca14834a43f5de4533ebddb5cc8