cirBTC Borrowing on Morpho Tops $190 Million as Arc Liquidity Tightens
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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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.
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Where this sits in the USDC series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 11 days ago | USDC a 1 $ high | today it sits -0.0 % from there |
| 1 days ago | USDC a 0.999 $ low | today it sits +0.1 % from there |
From what we have stored, starting 22 days ago.