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Circle’s USDC transfer volume hits $32 trillion, revenue still yield-led

In Q2, reserve income accounted for 95.2% of Circle’s $701.3 million total revenue, while transaction revenue was $5.3 million.

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Circle processed $32 trillion in adjusted USDC transfer volume in 2026, according to Coin Metrics’ August analysis cited by CryptoSlate. The report estimates that each dollar of USDC supply turned over 741 times at an annualized rate, a measure of settlement intensity rather than consumer payment activity.

Despite the scale of transfers, Circle’s revenue composition remained heavily tied to yield on assets backing USDC. For the three months ended June 30, reserve income supplied $667.7 million of Circle’s $701.3 million in total revenue and reserve income, or 95.2%, while transaction revenue contributed $5.3 million.

CryptoSlate also pointed to how much of the transfer volume reflects crypto market plumbing. Coin Metrics’ bottom-up work found that on Base, 69% of USDC volume involved decentralized exchange liquidity provision and 23% involved flash loans, while on Ethereum flash loans accounted for 65%. The analysis described these flows as examples of liquidity rebalancing and collateral movement that can generate large gross transfers without matching growth in net capital moved or fees collected by Circle.

The outlet noted that some volume could not be cleanly mapped to identified categories, including 8% on Base and 33% on Ethereum, and said that residual cannot be safely relabeled as commercial payments. Circle’s own activity metric also showed a separate usage measure, with USDC onchain transaction volume rising 151% year over year to $14.8 trillion.

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