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By Ian Allison|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Jun 11, 2025, 2:46 p.m.
- About 2 million USDC holders on World Network have now been upgraded to native USDC issued directly by Circle.
- Businesses can use Circle Mint to directly convert fiat into USDC on World Chain and back again, enabling global on/off-ramps and cross-chain swaps with no third-party bridges.
World Chain, the blockchain of Sam Altman-backed World Network, is now host to natively minted USDC, the stablecoin issued by recently listed crypto firm Circle (CRCL), the companies said on Wednesday.
World Network also joined Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2), allowing holders to move USDC across a range of blockchains.
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Some 2 million World Network users already held bridged USDC, and this has now been upgraded to native USDC issued directly by Circle, according to a press release. Businesses can use Circle Mint to directly convert between fiat and USDC on the layer-2 blockchain, enabling global on/off-ramps and cross-chain swaps with no third-party bridges, the release said.
Stablecoins are possibly the hottest sub-sector within crypto, with a plethora of mainstream uses coming online day by day and Circle’s recent IPO success for added good measure. World Network, the ecosystem that’s grown out of the Worldcoin data collecting orb from OpenAI founder Altman, has been piling on applications including offering wallets with a full range of bank-like services courtesy of Visa.
The cross-chain capabilities added to World Network means developers, businesses and consumers can quickly and easily move funds and fully benefit from decentralized finance (DeFI) composability, according to the release.
Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.
