In accordance with Circle’s most up-to-date reserve report, round 65% of all USD Coin (USDC) reserves are held as US treasury payments.
Circle held $43.4 billion in USDC reserves to again 43.23 billion USDC in circulation as of Nov. 30, 2022. Of those reserves, $12.79 billion lay within the Circle Reserve Fund, a registered authorities cash market fund wholly owned by Circle and managed by BlackRock. The fund’s holdings included 12 US treasury payments as of Nov. 30.
Circle created its Reserve Fund on Nov. 3, and in lower than a month, it transferred round 29.5% of the stablecoin reserves to the fund. Since then, Blackrock’s disclosures info reveals that “USDC reserves invested within the Circle Reserve Fund have risen to round $28.6 billion, or 65%,”
Fashionable crypto analyst John Paul Koning called it a “win” for USDC customers, including:
“Circle is yielding a few of its management over USDC’s reserves to an exterior supervisor topic to SEC regulation, which in the end makes USDC safer. Transparency improves too, since USDC customers can now get common updates from BlackRock.”
One other $19.41 billion price of USDC reserves had been held as treasury payments instantly by Circle as of Nov. 30.
Moreover, $11.15 billion of the stablecoin’s reserves was saved as money at US-regulated monetary establishments, which embrace Financial institution of New York Mellon, Residents Belief Financial institution, Prospects Financial institution, New York Neighborhood Financial institution, Signature Financial institution, Silicon Valley Financial institution, and Silvergate Financial institution.
