Centre Consortium Announces Algorand as an Official Chain for USDC, Launches on Mainnet - Seite 2

Earlier this year, Centre announced its Multichain USDC Framework, an effort to increase interoperability and provide a wide range of developers, projects and ecosystems with the power of USDC and future Centre stablecoins.  The Centre Multichain USDC Framework establishes a rigorous set of criteria for the issuance and operation of USDC on new blockchains, while also supporting innovation and experimentation by third-party developers and blockchain platforms.  Algorand is the first blockchain platform to achieve the highest level of certification as an official chain for USDC, and will be an excellent addition to the Centre multi-stakeholder ecosystem.

Centre has also been encouraged by the broad and growing interest in using USDC within regulated financial institution settings, including by leading consumer fintech and payments companies, global banking and securities firms.  Algorand brings a deep focus on the features and needs of regulated financial institutions, supporting these expanding use cases.

"This is a defining milestone for frictionless mainstream payments as well as sophisticated financial applications," said Silvio Micali, Founder of Algorand, Inc. "This launch brings together the convenience of USDC and an advanced protocol for global financial exchange in which Layer-1 smart contracts are as simple and secure as ordinary payments."

"Expanding USDC from Ethereum to additional blockchains like Algorand will ensure USDC has the flexibility to support everything from emerging DeFi projects to large-scale financial institutions. Today's launch represents a significant improvement to USDC's scalability, improving its utility and making it a significantly more useful protocol for solving real-world financial problems," said Alesia Haas, Chief Financial Officer at Coinbase. "We look forward to supporting USDC on Algorand for both our retail and institutional customers in the future."

"Algorand has been at the forefront of innovation in scalable, secure blockchain infrastructure, and with the next major phase of growth with USDC demanding web-scale infrastructure for global consumer payments applications, we are excited to support the launch of USDC on Algorand," said Jeremy Allaire, Chairman and CEO of Circle.  "Algorand's focus on providing capabilities that are geared towards regulated financial institutions is also important as digital dollar stablecoins such as USDC become a core market infrastructure in the financial services industry more broadly."