USD Coin (USDC) is a Optimism token, 811 days on the tracked record, carrying a NexFlow structural grade of B. The desk's full analysis sits on the News tab; the scanner's live checks sit in the Insights panel above.
Every dated snapshot we hold — nothing interpolated between them.
Date
Price
Market cap
Liquidity
Holders
Grade
2026-09-27
$0.9987
$75.18B
$9.63M
628,653
B
2026-09-26
$1.00
$75.40B
$10.00M
628,653
B
2026-09-21
$1.00
$74.42B
$10.00M
628,653
B
FAQ
Is USDC a safe token?
As of the 2026-09-27 snapshot, USDC scores 80/100 (grade B) on NexFlow's on-chain read — based on a contract that has unconfirmed mint controls, has unconfirmed freeze and blacklist controls, liquidity of $9.63M and 628,653 holders, with the creator wallet holding <0.01% of supply. That grades contract and market structure, not price direction — a clean read is not a guarantee, so re-scan before trading, since on-chain state can change.
Can you sell USDC, or is it a honeypot?
Our Optimism read covers market structure, not sell-side contract behaviour like honeypots or transfer taxes, as of 2026-09-27. Before assuming you can exit freely, run the live scan above — it reads the contract directly.
Who holds most of USDC?
The wallet that created USDC holds <0.01% of the supply as of 2026-09-27 — a small stake, under the 5% the scanners flag. That sits alongside a holder base of 628,653; a broad base lowers the odds that any one seller can steer the price, but the creator's share is the number to watch first.
Can USDC's supply be inflated?
This snapshot grades market structure only — contract-level supply controls on Optimism aren't assessed here yet. Run the live scanner, which reads the contract in real time.
What is the USDC contract address?
The USDC contract address on Optimism is 0x0b2c639c533813f4aa9d7837caf62653d097ff85. Always verify a token by its contract address, not its name or ticker — scam clones copy tickers, but the address is unique.
Where can you buy USDC safely?
Run the live on-chain scan at the top of this page first; if USDC clears, you can swap it here directly. Whatever venue you use, match the contract address (0x0b2c639c533813f4aa9d7837caf62653d097ff85) exactly before trading — copying the ticker is how clone scams catch buyers, and the address is the one field they can't fake.
No tracked DEX pools on record for USDC — GeckoTerminal's lane reported none, or the refresh has not reached this token yet. The honest answer is "none measured", not a guessed venue.
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NexFlow's generated read on USDC — written from the stored snapshot, figures re-rendered at each refresh.
Two assets answer to "USDC" on Optimism, and this is the native one: Circle's own issuance at 0x0b2c639c533813f4aa9d7837caf62653d097ff85, the mint that CCTP burns and mints against directly. The bridged predecessor — USDC.e, routed through the canonical bridge — lives at its own address on its own page in this index, and the difference between the two is the entire point of this page.
The September 27, 2026 snapshot reads $9.6 million of tracked pool liquidity and $16.7 million of 24-hour volume on the Optimism-local supply — 163.3 million units priced $161.5 million fully diluted — inside a ticker whose asset-wide market cap prints $75.2 billion. The "thin against cap" flag is arithmetic, not commentary: a redeemable stablecoin's real depth lives at the mint and across every venue combined, not in the pools any single index enumerates.
Graded B, 811 days on record. The note that matters is the address, not the flag: before approving a contract named USDC on Optimism, confirm the dapp wants the native mint — the same ticker is shared by a legacy claim.
Figures dated September 27, 2026; the live scan refreshes them.
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