Thus far in February 2025, an estimated $158.5M of USDC moved from a total of nine chains into Noble, the leading issuer of native USDC in Cosmos. Much of that USDC being utilized through innovative approaches on applications in Cosmos.
Average transaction time for users to receive their USDC? 20 minutes!
Source: Range, https://usdc.range.org/usdc/flows
Experts and newbies alike can appreciate how slow transferring USDC from Ethereum chains is, and ultimately, how much opportunity is lost while you idle by your desk waiting for those funds to land in your account. Rushing to swap into that memecoin? Forget about it.
Fast USDC, powered by Agoric Orchestration, and now live on Agoric mainnet, cuts wait times to under 1 minute! Here’s a mockup showing what it would look like in an application – all from a simple toggle.
For a small fee, users get immediate access to their USDC which can then be used for meme coin trading, yield farming opportunities, or smoother payment flows. And for teams building applications? That means reduced user churn.
But the key to Fast USDC is greater than its name – it comes down to opportunity.
It’s the freedom to get your USDC, and with the underlying technology of Agoric Orchestration, to unlock new cross-chain opportunities, like fully automatic lending, staking, auto-compounding, or memecoin purchasing.
And here’s the kicker… You only have to sign a single signature to receive your desired USDC and have the application you’re using take it and fulfill your desired intent, which can come in many forms depending on what additional Orchestration features have been built into the application.
How Fast USDC works
At its core, Fast USDC is controlled by an Orchestration contract. A user engaging with their Cosmos app of choice requests USDC from Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, or Polygon. The contract then advances the USDC to them from a separate decentralized Liquidity Pool. This skips the painful wait times for users and incentivizes liquidity providers by providing them a fee for contributing to the pool… win-win!
On the backend, the Orchestration contract uses Circle’s CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) to coordinate USDC transfers across chains, which settles at a later time, giving users the freedom to take immediate action with their USDC.
No longer just cargo, USDC can now power lending, staking, trading, and in-game economies the moment then tokens arrive. As more platforms integrate Fast USDC, the closer we get to a more frictionless multi-chain ecosystem.
Integrate Fast USDC today
Because it’s powered by Agoric Orchestration, Fast USDC is highly adaptable, extending to leverage other cross-chain tools based on your needs—think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure RPG, where you define the features available to your users.
Integrate Fast USDC today and go wild orchestrating the multi-chain.
