CENTRE Whitepaper

CENTRE, the consortium Circle and Coinbase co-founded in 2018 to set fiat-stablecoin standards, published this whitepaper (version 2.0, May 2018) defining USDC's design before dissolving in 2023.

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Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated September 13, 2026 Altcoin / Stablecoin

USDC: The Fiat-Collateralized Model, the SVB De-Peg, and Circle's Sole Control

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Jeremy Allaire

A fiat-collateralized design CENTRE named as a trade-off in its own whitepaper, a reserve that broke the dollar peg for two days in 2023, and a governing consortium later folded into one company.