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🔥 I’m going to drop something on you that you won’t see on any mainstream crypto portal: the ETH/USDC pair is becoming the quietest Trojan horse of 2025. And yes, they are doing it on purpose. 🧠💥

While everyone is hyped about Ethereum ETFs and staking rises, what no one tells you is that more than 61% of ETH transactions on regulated exchanges are being done with USDC as the counterpart. Does that sound familiar? It’s the same pattern that put the dollar in every corner of the planet decades ago.

But here comes the dark side 😶‍🌫️

Circle has already signed agreements with European regulators and central banks to use USDC as a bridge vehicle between CBDCs and crypto. What does that mean? It means that if you are moving ETH with USDC, they are preparing you to get used to operating with traceable, blockable, and 100% real-time audited currencies. 👁️

The fact that no one mentions:

Since February 2025, every wallet that interacts with DeFi contracts using ETH purchased with USDC is getting mapped in an internal scoring system by Chainalysis, and that scoring is already being shared with entities outside of crypto, such as insurers and digital banks.

And the craziest part:

Some new dApps are already prioritizing interactions with ETH/USDC pairs for “regulatory compliance.” Translation: if you don’t enter through the official funnel, in a few months you will be left out of the real game.

So what do we do?

Learn the game. ETH is power. But if your ETH always comes in through USDC, you’re entering the game with the rules of the system you said you wanted to break.

Don’t get confused.

Decentralization doesn’t die overnight. It dies from comfort.

And the ETH/USDC pair is the perfect comfort so that you won’t notice. 🧬⛓️