Circle incident

USDC Ink - Delayed mints and burns and CCTP transfers (network issues)

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Circle experienced a critical incident on January 14, 2026 affecting INK - Cross-Chain Minting and Burning and 3rd Party Infrastructure & Systems and 1 more component, lasting 4h 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 14, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 14, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC
Duration
4h 35m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 14, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC

Affected components

INK - Cross-Chain Minting and Burning3rd Party Infrastructure & SystemsUSDC - INK - MintingUSDC - INK - Redeeming

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 14, 2026, 02:37 PM UTC

    Ink Mainnet is currently experiencing a network outage affecting all Ink operations. Operations will be possible once the Ink network has been restored. We are awaiting a resolution from the Ink team.

  2. investigating Jan 14, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Jan 14, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  4. resolved Jan 14, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.