USD Coin USDC
USD Coin is issued by Circle, the named issuer of this regulated stablecoin. Circle keeps the power to upgrade the contract, mint, freeze and blacklist wallets — standard for a regulated stablecoin, and not a rug risk. Low risk.
Control powers
- Upgrade administrator — An administrator can replace the contract code, so the rules can change after you buy. verified on-chain
- Logic contract owner — The contract holding the token logic has its own owner, separate from the address you interact with. read on-chain
Trading
- Buy tax — There is no buy tax. reported by the security feed
- Sell tax — There is no sell tax. reported by the security feed
- Sellable — A sale of this token goes through. reported by the security feed
Liquidity & holders
- No project-owned trading pool — Not applicable — this token does not have a single project-owned trading pool; it trades in many pools run by other parties, so there is no LP position for its issuer to lock or burn. from the issuer registry
- On-chain liquidity — On-chain trading pools hold $36,186,515. Most trading in this token happens on centralized exchanges, which the market feed cannot see. reported by the market feed
- Top holders — The ten largest wallets hold 3% of the supply (excluding the trading pair, burned supply and contract holders), the largest of them 1%. reported by the security feed
Code & history
- Code published — The contract's source code is published and readable. reported by the security feed
- Issuer can block individual wallets — Circle can block individual wallets from holding or moving USD Coin. This is a disclosed power of the named issuer, not a hidden one. from the issuer registry
- Issuer can create new tokens — Circle can create new USD Coin. This is a disclosed power of the named issuer, not a hidden one. from the issuer registry
- Issuer can freeze transfers — Circle can freeze or pause transfers of USD Coin. This is a disclosed power of the named issuer, not a hidden one. from the issuer registry
What matters here
- An administrator can swap the token's code for entirely different code without asking holders.
- The code behind this token can be replaced, so its behaviour can change after you buy.
- A check that could not run is not a check that passed.
Market
| on-chain pools seen | 30 |
| Quoted against | WETH |
Also listed on 7 centralized exchanges, including Binance, Kraken and OKX. read from each exchange's own public market list
Open the full evidence and provenance
Compare USD Coin with another token on this chain — two at a time, differences marked.
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What we know about this token
How long this has existed
| Domain registered | 27 years ago | from the domain registry (RDAP) |
| Website first archived | 27 years ago | from the Internet Archive |
Largest holders
| Address | Share |
|---|---|
0x2df1c51e09aecf9cacb7bc98cb1742757f163df7 |
16.66% |
0xee7ae85f2fe2239e27d9c1e23fffe168d63b4055 |
5.44% |
0x724dc807b04555b71ed48a6896b6f41593b8c637 |
1.46% |
0x007d76eec0ba411ce873a8819df50dd443d967a0 |
1.13% |
0x47c031236e19d024b42f8ae6780e44a573170703 |
1.00% |
0x70d95587d40a2caf56bd97485ab3eec10bee6336 |
0.90% |
0x9e36cb86a159d479ced94fa05036f235ac40e1d5 |
0.88% |
0x519c721de735f7c9e6146d167852e60d60496a47 |
0.82% |
0x0b07f64abc342b68aec57c0936e4b6fd4452967e |
0.70% |
0xdb5e6c7a7c38c0abde696b006c7176f8aa7b5dd0 |
0.62% |
What this scan does not establish
- Can anyone change balances directly? — no source answered this question for this token, so nothing is claimed either way.
- Is there a hidden owner? — no source answered this question for this token, so nothing is claimed either way.
- This is an automated read of public on-chain data and labelled provider feeds at one moment in time. It is not an audit, it does not execute the contract's logic path by path, and a token can change after it is scanned.
Evidence runs for this address
| Collected | Pinned to | Provider agreement | Assessment at the time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | Finalized block 491638948 | Verified | recorded under an earlier method |
About USD Coin
USD Coin (USDC) is a token on Arbitrum. Its main trading pair has existed for 1199 days on uniswap. The selected venue feed reports a price of $1.001, $36,186,515 in its largest observed DEX pair and $35,652,919 of 24-hour volume across 30 pair(s). An external provider reports roughly 5055426 holders; VetMyToken has not reconstructed the complete holder set. An external provider reports published source code; VetMyToken has not independently verified that source. Contract controls, holder coverage, liquidity control and market quality are assessed separately; market activity does not improve or reduce the security-risk assessment.
| Exact address | 0xaf88d065e77c8cc2239327c5edb3a432268e5831 |
| Network | Arbitrum |
| Project website | https://www.circle.com/usdc |
| Main observed pair created | 8 Jun 2023 |
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