🔁 $USDC without delay: what is CCTP and why does it matter?

Moving crypto between blockchains has never been exactly elegant.

In reality, what we have had until today was a makeshift solution that became the standard: wrapped tokens — copies of an asset that get stuck to bridges.

For example: you send your token from Ethereum to Solana. What arrives there is not the original token, but a wrapped version that depends on a contract in between. If that contract gets hacked, crashes, or loses liquidity... it’s over.

🎁 How wrapped works (the old model):

Your original token is locked on a network, for example, Ethereum.

A copy is issued on another one, like Solana.

This copy is maintained by a bridge.

In this way, you depend on the security and liquidity of that bridge.

This can generate various inconveniences.

👇🏻 Comment below if you’ve ever had a problem with a bridge — and how you resolved it.

🔥 But then Circle, which issues the original USDC, found a cleaner solution: the CCTP.

With CCTP:

The USDC is burned on the network, for example, Ethereum.

A new, native USDC is created on the destination network, like Solana.

No copies. No bridge. No risk of “unwrapping” later.

The $USDC that arrives is official, issued by Circle itself, pegged 1:1 with the dollar, with native liquidity on the destination network.

Today, CCTP already works on various networks like Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Base, among others.

In a very simplified way, it’s as if in the wrapped model, the copy of the money is authenticated at a notary, with the original money being stuck at the notary. And CCTP is the transfer of money from one country to another.

Now tell me one thing:

👇🏻 What other “standards” in the crypto market do we still accept just because we got used to them, even knowing that there are better options?