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USDC

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1 creator use or recommend it

1 recommend 6 mention 2 critical
Last discussed Sep 29, 2026

A US dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Circle that maintains a 1:1 peg with the US dollar for digital payments and transactions.

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Gokul Rajaram
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Used for: Protecting against local currency inflation for people outside the US Praised: Pegged to US dollar, prevents inflation losses, accessible globally vs: Best real world application of crypto industry outside of tokenization

"I'm in love with stable coins. I think USDC, I have so many people I know outside the US now who basically want all their money to be not in their local currency but in USDC, a stable coin because it's pegged to the US dollar. It gives the opportu..."

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Tomasz Tunguz
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Used for: Trusted digital dollar for internet transactions and AI agent payments Praised: Most trusted dollar on the internet, cryptographically verifiable

"We've kind of created the most trusted dollar on the internet with USDC. And these operating system layers actually have features that AI can build on top of."

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Jeremy Allaire
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Used for: Regulated digital dollar for global stablecoin transactions, real-world asset trading, mainstream financial system integration Praised: 70% of real-world stablecoin transactions per Visa; record minting/redemption... vs: Compared to general crypto speculation — positioned as moving into mainstream...

"USDC is today overwhelmingly the most widely used regulated digital dollar in the world. Visa reported at the end of June 70% of real world stablecoin transactions happening with USDC. We saw record numbers in terms of minting and redemption of USDC."

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"USDC runs on 32 blockchain networks"

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"USDC has become the most widely transacted digital currency in the world bigger than anything else basically"

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Sarah Tavel
mentioned
Praised: Strong network effects; significant market presence vs: Compared to Tether, which is described as more dominant with greater exchange...

"USDC is pretty strong, too. So there's definitely some network effects there."

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"But now you have USDC and other stores of value that are not volatile that you can get into"

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Tom Bilyeu
mentioned

"Users fund their accounts and settle all transactions in USDC, a dollar peg stable coin."

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Brian Armstrong
mentioned

"An example of that is like USDC that which is the stable coin. I actually embarrassed to admit I voted no on that idea. Luckily somebody else funded it out of their budget and it's I think in 2025 we did like 800 million revenue off it or something."

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"USDC is the largest regulated stable coin because it is compliant under Genius in the US"

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John Collison
critical

"And then USDC depected."

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Mark Cuban
critical

"and now there's a little bit of a battle to use um USDC for payment as the payment rails, you know, to make it so that, you know, just give me your wallet and that's, you know, it's going to end up being a scam and a lot of people are going to get..."

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