USDC (USDC) is trading at $1.00, up 0.02% in the last 24 hours. Over the last week it has traded between $0.9993 and $1.00. It trades at a fixed value near $1, which is how a stablecoin behaves — it is designed to hold a peg rather than appreciate.
What the data shows about USDC
USDC (USDC) trades at $1.00 and has barely moved — a 0.1% range across the period charted above. That is how a stablecoin behaves: it is designed to hold a peg rather than appreciate, so the thing to watch is not the price going up but whether it holds the peg at all.
We publish hand-written research for the assets people most commonly search for, and USDC is not currently one of them — so this page describes what the market data shows rather than making claims about the project itself. For what it does and who builds it, read the project's own documentation and check its activity on a block explorer.
USDC price today and its recent range
USDC is currently $1.00. Over the period covered by the chart above it has ranged from $0.9993 to $1.00, which puts it roughly 3% of the way up that range — near the bottom of it.
Read against the range rather than against a round number. The distance from the recent high (-0.07%) tells you more about where sentiment sits than the raw price does, and it is the figure that should inform where you put an alert.
What actually moves the USDC price
Three forces set the price, on different clocks. The first is the whole market: when Bitcoin moves sharply, correlations converge and almost nothing trades on its own merits. The second is USDC's own drivers. The third is positioning — leverage that has to be unwound regardless of what anyone believes.
USDC specifically: recent movement has been very low, and at its size it mostly tracks the wider market.
The practical consequence is not to react to a move until you know which of the three caused it. A 10% fall during a market-wide flush means something entirely different from a 10% fall while everything else is flat. The first is usually noise; the second is usually information.
Setting a USDC price alert
The most common mistake is setting the threshold too close. If it sits inside USDC's normal daily range it will fire constantly, you will start dismissing without reading, and the alert that mattered gets dismissed with the rest.
Work from the range instead. USDC has moved between $0.9993 and $1.00 recently, so alerts placed at or beyond those edges mark genuine changes of state rather than ordinary movement.
Then check it against your own behaviour rather than the chart: an alert you have dismissed twice without acting is already costing you the attention the next one needs.
Get told when USDC moves
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Frequently asked questions
What is the price of USDC today?
USDC (USDC) is trading at $1.00, up 0.02% over the last 24 hours. Its recent range is $0.9993 to $1.00. Prices update continuously on this page.
What is USDC used for?
We do not publish a hand-written profile for USDC yet, so this page does not describe what the project does. What the market data shows: it trades at a fixed value near $1, which is how a stablecoin behaves. For what it does and who builds it, read the project's own documentation.
What are the risks of holding USDC?
As a stablecoin, the risk is the peg itself: whether the issuer's reserves and redemption process hold under stress. We do not publish a project-specific risk assessment for it. Nothing on this page is financial advice.
How do I get an alert when USDC hits a price?
Create a free CoinPriceAlert account and set a price or percentage alert on USDC. Alerts are evaluated on our servers, so they arrive as a push notification even when the app is closed — and quiet hours stop a 24/7 market waking you at 4am.
No hand-written profile yet: the text is generated from live market data and the asset's category. Read the project's own documentation before acting. Market data: CoinGecko, refreshed continuously; alert planner: 365 daily closes from Binance. Nothing here is financial advice.