USDC Bridge CCTP V1: Shutdown in Two Stages

If you hold USDC and have ever sent it from one blockchain to another, one date now belongs in your calendar: December 1, 2026. On that day the issuer Circle brings the old version of its official transfer bridge to a halt. Seven weeks earlier, on October 31, the caps on that bridge start to fall. Anyone holding USDC on the Cosmos chain Noble faces a separate, harder deadline: there, all contracts will be halted on January 12, 2027.

The short version first: for most retail investors practically nothing changes, because they keep their stablecoins on an exchange and the switch happens there in the background. Anyone who self-custodies, uses an older wallet app or holds USDC on Noble does have to act. This piece shows you which of the two groups you belong to, and how to establish that in a few minutes.

What Circle announced on September 10 and which two dates count

Circle issues USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market value. The company also operates the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, or CCTP for short: the in-house mechanism by which USDC officially moves from one blockchain to another. That mechanism exists in two versions. The first, CCTP V1, has been classified as the legacy version since November 2025. The second, CCTP V2, is its successor.