Injective (@injective) $INJ has launched a new route for USDC through Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). Users can begin onboarding USDC through LI.FI (@lifiprotocol) and Jumper (
Injective (@injective) $INJ has launched a new route for USDC through Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). Users can begin onboarding USDC through LI.FI (@lifiprotocol) and Jumper (@jumperapp).
Injective says the integration supports its goal of making USDC a standard across more than 20 blockchains.
CCTP is Circle's own cross-chain infrastructure for moving USDC between networks. According to Circle's developer documentation, the protocol transfers USDC natively using a burn-and-mint process and does not rely on traditional bridge liquidity pools. In practice, USDC is burned on the source chain and the same amount is minted on the destination chain, so users receive Circle-issued USDC rather than a wrapped version.
Circle says this design improves capital efficiency and reduces trust requirements. Its documentation notes that lock-and-mint and liquidity pool bridging both require USDC to be locked in third-party smart contracts, which adds trust assumptions and lowers capital efficiency.
Injective's own documentation states that USDC is available on Injective as a native stablecoin through CCTP. It also says USDC on the network follows the MultiVM Token Standard, so the same token can be used across both the EVM and Cosmos environments without bridging between them. Use cases listed include trading on Injective's on-chain order book, collateral for derivatives markets and settlement in DeFi applications.
The new route builds on earlier work. Circle announced that USDC and CCTP are live on Injective, and described USDC as the world's largest regulated stablecoin. Circle said the combination is intended to support low-latency trading, lending, payments and other DeFi use cases.
LI.FI is also not new to the network. Crypto Briefing reported that Injective integrated with LI.FI Protocol, a cross-chain routing and liquidity aggregation layer that spans more than 60 blockchain networks. That integration lets users bridge, swap and deposit INJ and USDC into Injective's ecosystem, with Jumper, LI.FI's consumer-facing interface, set to follow.
For users, the practical change is a simpler path for moving USDC onto Injective from other supported chains. For Injective, it adds to its effort to deepen stablecoin liquidity as it positions itself as a Layer-1 blockchain built for financial applications.
Circle Docs: Cross-Chain Transfer ProtocolInjective Docs: USDC on InjectiveCircle: Now Available, USDC and CCTP on Injective
