Circle launches on Polygon native USDC tokens.
“Circle is delving into the world of Ethereum’s Layer 2, Polygon, to facilitate the direct provision of USDC liquidity within the proof-of-stake scaling protocol. Circle, the stablecoin issuer, has made an exciting announcement, revealing their initiation of minting USD Coin natively on Ethereum’s Layer-2 scaling protocol, Polygon. USDC is now readily accessible to both users and developers, eliminating the need for bridging the stablecoin from Ethereum to another blockchain. The Circle Mint and Circle’s developer application programming interfaces (APIs) have seamlessly integrated with Polygon-based USDC, harnessing Polygon’s remarkable scaling capabilities. As per Circle’s recent announcement, this development opens up a world of opportunities for businesses and developers. They can now construct decentralized applications with USDC on Polygon. This novel offering promises near-instant, low-fee transactions for a myriad of use cases, spanning paym...