{"id":648661,"date":"2026-08-26T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=842417"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:30:23","slug":"circle-mints-5-billion-usdc-in-a-week-as-supply-race-with-tether-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/circle-mints-5-billion-usdc-in-a-week-as-supply-race-with-tether-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Mints 5 Billion USDC in a Week as Supply Race With Tether Heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/circle-mints-5-billion-usdc-in-a-week-as-supply-race-with-tether-heats-up3_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Circle mint data August\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Circle minted roughly 5 billion USDC over the past week, according to onchain trackers, in one of its largest weekly issuance pushes yet. A Record Week for Fresh Supply Onchain analytics platform Solscan revealed the roughly 5 billion USDC mint earlier today, with analysts noting that the issuance is just one of many billion-dollar mints [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle minted roughly 5 billion USDC over the past week, according to onchain trackers, in one of its largest weekly issuance pushes yet. A Record Week for Fresh Supply Onchain analytics platform Solscan revealed the roughly 5 billion USDC mint earlier today, with analysts noting that the issuance is just one of many billion-dollar mints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}