cirBTC Borrowing on Morpho Tops $190 Million as Arc Liquidity Tightens
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cirBTC borrowing on Morpho has topped $190 million, and the main market now has 97.4% of supplied USDC borrowed. That compares with 8.1% when Circle Mint opened access on Sept. 21, and the borrowing surge is also described as placing pressure on USDC liquidity and stability.
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What it means
Users and market participants watching the main market would see a much tighter USDC pool than on Sept. 21, when 8.1% of supplied USDC was borrowed. The current 97.4% borrowed figure means there is far less unborrowed supply visible today than there was then.
In practice, the market now looks different from the earlier Circle Mint opening period because most supplied USDC in the main market is already borrowed. What remains the same is that the report still frames this as borrowing activity on Morpho, rather than a change to Circle Mint itself.
Market reaction i
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 27 days ago | Circle minted another 750 million USDC on Solana in the last 24 hours event | 2 actors in common · 2 news media |
| 35 days ago | Circle mints about 13.50 billion USDC on Solana in September event | 2 actors in common · 2 news media |
| 29 days ago | Aave v4 on Base draws $4.7 million in Coinbase tokenized stock deposits event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |