USDC, The US dollar-pegged stablecoin run by crypto exchange Coinbase and payments platform Circle, today announced Solana as its fourth “official” blockchain, after Ethereum, Algorand and Stellar. Upon the announcement, the market cap of USDC jumped up by $53 million to $2.791 billion, according to metrics site CoinMarketCap. The coin, which is now the 13th largest by market cap, traded $566 million in the past 24 hours. What's more, at this pace, its growth now exceeds that of its chief competitor Tether (USDT), even if Tether's overall market cap is still far larger. USDC has boomed this year. In January, the ... (full story)