Centre Consortium, which issues second-largest stablecoin USDC, has been dissolved as Coinbase acquires a minority share in Circle Internet Financial, according to a blog post from the company.

“Centre will no longer exist as a stand-alone entity and Circle will remain as the issuer of USDC, bringing any Centre governance and operations responsibilities in-house,” Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a jointly-authored blog post. The announcement added that revenue from interest earned on the dollar reserves backing USDC tokens will continue to be shared between the two firms, but the split will now be equal.

USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin issuer Circle—the largest publicly traded crypto exchange—has always been linked to Coinbase through its consortium, a separate group set up to govern the U.S. dollar-pegged token. The consortium itself was founded by Coinbase and Circle in 2018. At the time, the consortium said that it welcomed “broad industry participation” and that it would introduce more USDC issuers.

Now Circle will be the only USDC issuer.

The blog post also said that USDC will launch on six new blockchains through the end of October—but without naming which networks. That will mean that USDC will be available on 15 different networks, according to the companies.

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Author: Stacy Elliott

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