Circle’s USDC will launch natively on Optimism, Coinbase’s Base next week

The major stablecoin company Circle said it will launch its USDC stablecoin natively on two blockchains in the first week of September. The company said on Aug. 30 that it will launch USDC on Optimism’s OP Mainnet. It said that this new, native version of USDC will gradually replace OP Mainnet’s current version of the...