Stable-coin issuer Circle minted roughly $750 million of USD Coin (USDC) on the Solana blockchain over the past seven days, bringing total USDC issuance on Solana this year to about $21.25 billion. The surge in stable-coin creation coincided with accelerated capital flows into the network. More than $200 million in digital assets were bridged to Solana during the same week, including about $113 million that originated on Ethereum, according to blockchain-tracking data. The fresh liquidity underscores growing developer and trader interest in Solana, which has marketed itself as a lower-cost, high-throughput alternative to larger rivals such as Ethereum. Circle, whose USDC is the second-largest dollar-pegged token, has cited faster settlement times on Solana as a draw for payments and decentralized-finance applications.