Coinbase is becoming the official treasury deployer of USDC on Hyperliquid, managing USDC reserves and sharing yield with the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Circle will handle the technical side, using CCTP to facilitate cross-chain transfers of USDC. USDC will effectively replace USDH as the de facto settlement currency and official quote asset on Hyperliquid, where USDC balances already sit at roughly $5 billion.

USDH markets will remain functional but sunset over time, with feeless conversions to USDC and fiat redemptions available during the wind-down. Native Markets has agreed to terms granting Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand assets. Coinbase has also increased its staked HYPE position as part of the transition, deepening its alignment with the Hyperliquid network as USDC consolidates its role across onchain capital markets.

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Circle's Chief Economist Gordon Liao has published an Aave governance proposal to raise the interest rate slope on the USDC market on Aave v3 Ethereum Core from 10% to 40% initially, with a target of 50%. He believes that higher rates will attract new USDC liquidity providers in an effort to bring utilization back down. The proposal comes in response to the KelpDAO exploit, which has driven the USDC lending market on Aave to 100% utilization for the last four days, leaving lenders unable to withdraw their funds due to insufficient liquidity.

As the proposal notes, debt repayments are being immediately absorbed by a queued withdrawal backlog. The proposal faced community pushback as raising the rate slope can accelerate harm. Higher rates risk triggering liquidations for borrowers who are already trapped. Liquidity providers are reluctant to deposit due to the current uncertainty around a potential lender haircut.

Circle has also faced broader criticism for not offering to inject liquidity directly into its own asset pool as the issuer of USDC. Earlier this month, Circle failed to freeze USDC connected to the DPRK in the Drift Protocol exploit.

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