Circle experienced a major incident on January 22, 2026 affecting USDC - XLM - Minting and USDC - XLM - Redeeming, lasting 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
USDC - XLM - MintingUSDC - XLM - Redeeming
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 22, 2026, 05:48 PM UTC
A planned Stellar maintenance requires pausing all Stellar mint, redeem, and sends on Circle. This does not interrupt the transferability of the USDC on Stellar token on non-Circle platforms.
- investigating Jan 22, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
A planned Stellar maintenance requires pausing all Stellar mint, redeem, and sends on Circle. This does not interrupt the transferability of the USDC on Stellar token on non-Circle platforms.
- investigating Jan 22, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved Jan 22, 2026, 06:39 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.