Circle incident
USDC Ink - Delayed mints and burns and CCTP transfers (network issues)
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.
Affected components
INK - Cross-Chain Minting and Burning3rd Party Infrastructure & SystemsUSDC - INK - MintingUSDC - INK - Redeeming
Update timeline
- 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.
- investigating Jan 14, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Jan 14, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved Jan 14, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.