World Chain, the blockchain of Sam Altman-backed World Network, is now host to natively minted USDC, the stablecoin issued by recently listed crypto firm Circle (CRCL), the companies said on Wednesday.World Network also joined Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2), allowing holders to move USDC across a range of blockchains.Some 2 million World Network users already held bridged USDC, and this has now been upgraded to native USDC issued directly by Circle, according to a press release. Businesses can use Circle Mint to directly convert between fiat and USDC on the layer-2 blockchain, enabling global on/off-ramps and cross-chain swaps with no third-party bridges, the release said
source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/11/sam-altman-s-world-network-adds-native-usdc-stablecoin-and-circle-s-cross-chain-service