THELOGICALINDIAN - Stellar has become the fourth blockchain to abutment the USDC stablecoin
One of the arch dollar-pegged stablecoins, USD Coin (USDC), has gone alive on the Stellar blockchain.
USDC Added to Stellar Ecosystem
Developers architecture on the Stellar blockchain can now accomplish use of the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin.
With the announcement, Stellar is the fourth blockchain to abutment the stablecoin, afterward Ethereum, Algorand, and Solana.
Stellar allows cross-border affairs with adjustment times aural bristles seconds. As such, it will facilitate fast USDC transactions. It will additionally acquiesce users to accomplish USDC affairs with negligible fees, admitting Ethereum’s gas fees can be absolutely expensive.
USDC is the second-largest stablecoin afterwards Tether (USDT). It was launched in 2018 by CENTRE, the aftereffect of a affiliation amid the crypto companies Circle and Coinbase. Currently, there are $6 billion of USDC tokens in circulation.
New Uses for USDC
The affiliation brings burning amount to the Stellar ecosystem and will actualize new opportunities for USDC.
“Businesses and developers will account from Circle’s calibration and clamminess to bear on the kinds of articles and use cases the Stellar was advised for, abnormally cross-border payments and tokenization,” Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon declared in a media release.
The stablecoin will be accessible beyond all projects aural Stellar’s ecosystem. It will be tradable with over 9,000 agenda assets, according to the Stellar Development Foundation.
Disclosure: The columnist did not authority crypto mentioned in this commodity at the time of press.