What Is USD Coin?

About USD Coin (USDC)

What is USD Coin (USDC)? USDC is a new cryptocurrency, a digital prototype of US Dollar. It is a stablecoin and its rate depends on the strong fiat currency. This is a “clear” token that operates in accordance with the United States laws. As a stablecoin, its fluctuations don’t depend on the rate changes of other cryptocurrencies. Particularly, they have no connections with BTC rate. The Ethereum platform was used as the basis for USDC cryptocurrency and USDC tokens are the ERC-20 standard tokens. There is a possibility that USDC will replace Tether, as there have been cases of USDT instability, which caused unfortunate situations. USD Coin is supported by the most major cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, OKEX, Poloniex, KuCoin, Coinbase Pro and other.

Where did USD Coin (USDC) come from?

USDC is one of the newest stablecoins. It became available just in October 2018. The project of USD Coin was created by Coinbase in cooperation with Circle. The development itself involved Centre Consortium (Coinbase and Circle joint association). Its investors were Digital Currency Group, Bitmain, Pantera and others.

What are the advantages of USD Coin (USDC)?

1. USDC is built on ERC-20 standard
   
   So this means that the funds transfer speed is as good as ETH has. As it said of the official Circle website, people can transfer US Dollars across the world within seconds with the help of USDC.
2. Experienced team of developers with serious funding
   
   The company that created USD Coin has been working in the cryptocurrency sphere for many years so they receive more trust.
3. Individuals and organizations may deposit US Dollars from their bank accounts
   
   Then convert the money into tokens and after that they buy USDC tokens and withdraw the money to a bank account.

What are the disadvantages of USD Coin (USDC)?

1. USD Coin is a very new project with indeterminate perspectives and it is not clear how it will function in the future
   
   We can just guess if this cryptocurrency will be in demand or not.
2. USDC is not the first stablecoin that is trying to become an analogue of fiat currency
   
   It can be said that all other stablecoins faced with some problems and there are no guarantees that USD Coin will avoid those.
3. There is high competition among stablecoins
   
   USDC should have significant benefits to be above its competitors. It is unknown yet if USDC will be able to sidestep its rivals or will be one of those stablecoins that is not interested to investors.

How to buy USD Coin (USDC) on SimpleSwap?

Let’s say you want to buy USD Coin. What should you do? We suggest you go to the SimpleSwap homepage and follow the instructions below:

1. For example, you want to swap BTC for USDC. Select the currency you want to exchange (e.g. BTC) in the first drop-downlist. Then enter the amount you want to swap.
2. Select USDC in the second drop-down list. You’ll see the estimated amount that you’ll get after the exchange.
3. Click the Exchange button.
4. Enter the Recipient's Address. USDC will be sent. Be careful and make sure you use the correct address.
5. Create the exchange.
6. You will see the Bitcoin deposit address. You need to transfer the necessary amount of BTC to this address to start the BTC to USDC exchange.

You are welcome to watch this video tutorial to learn more details about the exchange process:

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