{"id":95320,"date":"2026-03-17T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=95320"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:25:29","slug":"injective-integrates-native-usdc-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/injective-integrates-native-usdc-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Injective Integrates Native USDC Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Layer 1 blockchain platform Injective has announced support for the stablecoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-usdc-stablecoin\">USDC<\/a> and Circle&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-cross-chain-bridges\">Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol<\/a> (CCTP).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USDC and CCTP, powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/circle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@circle<\/a>, are officially coming to Injective.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest regulated stablecoin. Secure crosschain transfers. All natively integrated into the fastest blockchain built for finance.<\/p>\n<p>Mainnet loading. \u23f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WbQimtO7qF\">pic.twitter.com\/WbQimtO7qF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Injective \ud83e\udd77 (@injective) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/injective\/status\/2033891477424636252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The project team emphasized that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">&#8220;stablecoins&#8221;<\/a> have evolved beyond a crypto experiment into a global payment infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;In 2025, the volume of stablecoin transactions <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/usdc-surpasses-usdt-in-defi-usage-activity\">reached $33 trillion<\/a>, a 72% increase over the previous year. USDC led with a processed flow of $18.3 trillion. This is more than half of Visa&#8217;s annual transaction volume and five times that of PayPal,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Circle&#8217;s coin capitalization is nearly $80 billion, and its integration for Injective users means direct access to this liquidity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/circle-accelerates-usdc-cross-chain-transfers-to-mere-seconds\">CCTP<\/a>, as the native cross-chain infrastructure of the USDC issuer, will provide users and developers the ability to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>seamlessly move the stablecoin between supported networks;<\/li>\n<li>conduct transfers with near-instant finality;<\/li>\n<li>create applications for cross-network registration, trading, and native liquidity management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Injective uses the MultiVM token standard for USDC, fully available in Wasm and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-ethereum-virtual-machine-evm\">EVM<\/a> execution environments. This means no bridges, &#8220;wrappers,&#8221; or fragmentation, the developers emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The native stablecoin will be launched in phases on the mainnet. At the time of writing, USDC operations are available in the testnet.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bug Hunter Accuses Injective of Greed<\/h2>\n<p>A user of the Immunefi bounty platform, known as f4lc0n, claimed that the blockchain team is attempting to drastically underpay him for discovering a critical vulnerability in the code.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I Saved Injective&#8217;s $500M. They Pay Me $50K.<\/p>\n<p>I like hunting bugs on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/immunefi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@immunefi<\/a> . I&#8217;m decent at it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #1 \u2014 Attackathon | Stacks<br \/>\u2014 #2 \u2014 Attackathon | Stacks II<br \/>\u2014 #1 \u2014 Attackathon | XRPL Lending Protocol<br \/>\u2014 1 Critical and 1 High from bug bounties (not counting this one)<\/p>\n<p>Life was\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 f4lc0n (@al_f4lc0n) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/al_f4lc0n\/status\/2033110168045568434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;white hat hacker&#8221; uploaded a report on GitHub, titling the README file in the repository: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I saved Injective $500 million. They will pay me $50,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to f4lc0n, the issue he identified in the subaccount verification system potentially allowed attackers to place market orders on behalf of users. The vulnerability opened the possibility to create a new token, establish a spot market with USDT, purchase assets on behalf of other traders, and withdraw funds to Ethereum. All these actions required no permission.<\/p>\n<p>The programmer believes the vulnerability endangered all capital stored on the blockchain\u2014$500 million at the time. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/address\/0xF955C57f9EA9Dc8781965FEaE0b6A2acE2BAD6f3\">Arkham<\/a>, the current figure is slightly over $285 million, with nearly $269 million in the native token INJ.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/immunefi.com\/bug-bounty\/injective\/information\/\">Injective page<\/a> on Immunefi, the reward for a critical vulnerability is listed as $500,000. In f4lc0n&#8217;s view, the issue he discovered falls into this category. The programmer noted that after his report, the blockchain platform conducted a governance vote and updated the network.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;white hat hacker&#8221; stated that the team did not respond to his inquiries for three months and then offered a sum ten times smaller.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;For clarity, they haven&#8217;t paid the $50,000 either,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In February, losses from hacker attacks in the crypto industry <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-market-losses-from-hacks-drop-to-11-month-low\">amounted to $26.5 million<\/a>\u2014the lowest figure since March 2025, as noted by PeckShield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Layer 1 blockchain platform Injective has announced support for the stablecoin USDC and Circle&#8217;s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Injective announces USDC and CCTP support, enhancing cross-chain transactions.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1439,807,910],"class_list":["post-95320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-injective","tag-stablecoins","tag-usdc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"109","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Injective announces USDC and CCTP support, enhancing cross-chain transactions.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95322,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95320\/revisions\/95322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}