Circle Internet Financial announced on Thursday that it plans to launch a Euro stablecoin (EUROC), by the end of the month, backed by the single European currency.
The launch is part of efforts by the issuer of the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to fulfil user demand and embrace competition as rivals such as Tether and Malta-based Stasis, have leady issued their euro-backed stablecoins EURt and EURS respectively.
Tether is the issuer of the largest dollar-pegged coin, USDT, which has a market cap of more than $70 billion compared with Circle’s USDC whose market capitalization stands at $54 billion.
Circle plans to launch the Euro Coin on the Ethereum blockchain on June 30 as an ERC-20 standard token. The global crypto finance company said that additional blockchains will support the stablecoin later this year.
Circle disclosed that after the launch several exchanges including Anchorage Digital, Binance.US, Bitstamp, FTX, Huobi Global, Ledger, and MetaMask Institutional will support the...
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