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Eligible Circle Mint institutions can now deposit Bitcoin, turn it into wrapped cirBTC collateral, and borrow USDC through a Morpho lending market in one coordinated workflow.<\/p>\n

Circle made the service live on Arc and Ethereum on Sept. 21, reducing the number of systems a treasury team must navigate to raise dollar liquidity without selling its Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

The service remains limited to eligible institutions, excludes New York clients, and is subject to jurisdiction and eligibility. Circle Mint is the account interface, cirBTC is Circle's<\/a> tokenized claim backed by native Bitcoin<\/a>, and Morpho supplies the third-party lending market.<\/p>\n

Under Circle's Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing<\/a> service, customers deposit native BTC, mint cirBTC, and supply the token as collateral through a customer-controlled wallet. Borrowed USDC<\/a> then settles into the customer's Circle Mint balance.<\/p>\n

Circle coordinates the experience, but the selected market determines borrowing costs, collateral limits, liquidation thresholds, available liquidity, and availability. Morpho's documentation<\/a> describes each market as its own combination of loan asset, collateral, oracle, interest-rate model, and liquidation loan-to-value limit.<\/p>\n

For a treasury team, the streamlined interface does not remove the need to monitor collateral values, utilization, and borrowing costs. A position can become liquidatable even though the underlying Bitcoin was never sold, because cirBTC sits in the lending market<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Aave V4\u2019s Arc market is swimming in $76 million of USDC nobody is borrowing<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

A Sept. 21 snapshot of the Arc market<\/a> for USDC loans against cirBTC displayed an 86% liquidation loan-to-value limit. It showed $14.13 million borrowed, $162.85 million in available liquidity, a $176.99 million market size and 7.98% utilization. At least one borrow appeared in the activity log that day.<\/p>\n

Those figures show the Arc market was operating, but they are a point-in-time snapshot and do not apply to Ethereum.<\/p>\n

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Circle Mint lets eligible institutions convert deposited Bitcoin into cirBTC collateral and borrow USDC through Morpho, leaving market risk with the lending venue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Circle's reserve dashboard<\/a> reported 948.75081803 cirBTC outstanding against 951.25857454 BTC in reserves as of Sept. 20. About 397 cirBTC was on Arc, and about 552 was on Ethereum.<\/p>\n

Arc, Circle's layer-1 network, is also run by a permissioned validator set, another distinction for institutions choosing among the supported networks.<\/p>\n

The launch shortens the path from held Bitcoin to USDC, but it does not turn variable DeFi credit into a fixed Circle loan. Whether the service drives lasting cirBTC demand will depend on continued borrowing activity and market terms after the launch-day snapshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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