Circle has announced that it will discontinue USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol V1 support on Noble, with new minting ending Oct. 13, 2026, and the final contract pause scheduled for Jan. 12, 2027.
Summary
- Circle will disable new USDC minting on Noble through Circle Mint on October 13, 2026.
- Noble’s USDC contract and every CCTP route will be fully paused on January 12, 2027.
- CCTP V1 burn limits from Noble will begin declining toward zero on October 31, 2026.
- Circle will snapshot remaining Noble balances before opening manual redemptions beginning January 13, 2027 onward.
- Noble will not receive CCTP V2, requiring holders and integrators to move elsewhere before closure.
Circle’s Sept. 10 notice instructed Circle Mint customers, institutions, retail holders and application developers to move their USDC or remove Noble routes before the final deadline.
USDC will remain transferable on Noble during the exit period. Circle Mint customers can redeem Noble-based USDC until Jan. 12, while holders outside Circle Mint can use supporting exchanges, decentralized exchanges or CCTP V1 routes to leave the network.
Noble will not receive CCTP V2, Circle’s current cross-chain protocol. Once the legacy contracts are paused, users will no longer be able to move USDC to or from Noble through CCTP.
Circle has divided the Noble exit into three stages
Circle Mint will continue offering its existing Noble services through Oct. 12. Customers can use withdrawals, express routes and redemptions without changes during this initial period.
New USDC minting through Circle Mint will stop on Oct. 13. Redemptions will remain available until Jan. 12, 2027, giving customers three months to remove or redeem their balances after issuance ends.
During the same window, the USDC token will remain transferable between Noble addresses. Circle is not immediately freezing balances or stopping ordinary on-chain transfers when minting ends.
CCTP V1 capacity will become more limited before the final pause. Circle plans to start reducing burn limits on Oct. 31, eventually taking the available limit to zero.
After Dec. 1, Noble users may only be able to send CCTP transfers to networks that still accept CCTP V1 burns. Circle advised holders to consult its documentation before selecting a destination chain.
All Noble CCTP routes and the USDC contract are scheduled to pause on Jan. 12. Noble will then disappear from Circle Mint and CCTP access beginning Jan. 13.
USDC on Noble holders have three exit routes
Institutional and self-custody holders can deposit Noble USDC into a centralized exchange that supports the network. Each holder must verify that the selected exchange still accepts Noble deposits before initiating a transfer.
A decentralized exchange operating on Noble provides another option. Holders can swap USDC for an available asset and move the replacement asset through a supported route, subject to the liquidity and pricing offered by the relevant platform.
The third route uses CCTP V1 to burn USDC on Noble and mint an equivalent amount on another supported blockchain. Circle’s protocol transfers native USDC through a burn-and-mint process without requiring a traditional bridge liquidity pool.
CCTP V1 currently supports Noble alongside Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Polygon PoS, Solana, Sui and Unichain. Continued destination availability may change as Circle retires the legacy protocol.
Circle said it would publish a shortlist of known exit venues but had not released the list with its initial announcement. The company stressed that it will not operate an exit interface for holders.
Users will therefore need to interact with an exchange, decentralized trading platform or compatible CCTP application. Circle warned users to rely on its official blog and Help Center because the migration process could attract scams.
CCTP V1 integrators must remove Noble routes
Applications that have integrated CCTP V1 must remove Noble as a supported route before Jan. 12. Any application still pointing to Noble’s legacy contracts after the pause will no longer be able to process transfers.
Circle’s developer documentation describes CCTP as a permissionless utility that moves native USDC between networks through burning and minting. Circle does not take custody of assets transferred through the protocol.
The Noble withdrawal schedule forms part of Circle’s network-wide retirement of CCTP V1. In an Aug. 27 update, the company said general V1 deprecation would begin Oct. 31 and finish Dec. 1.
CCTP V2 uses separate smart contracts and application programming interfaces. It is not backward compatible with V1, meaning integrators must change their contracts, APIs and supported route configurations.
The current version offers standard and fast transfer modes, programmable hooks and support for 27 blockchains, according to Circle. Noble is excluded from that list and will not be upgraded from V1.
Circle did not provide a technical or commercial reason for excluding Noble from CCTP V2. Its announcement described the withdrawal as part of the transition away from the legacy protocol.
Manual redemptions begin after the final snapshot
At the Jan. 12 pause, Circle will take a snapshot of every remaining USDC balance on Noble. The snapshot will establish which wallet addresses may qualify for manual redemption after normal access ends.
Manual redemptions are scheduled to begin Jan. 13 through Circle’s Help Center. Holders will not be able to use Noble through Circle Mint or CCTP from that date.
Eligibility will depend on three conditions. The claimant must meet Circle’s compliance and security requirements, control the wallet holding the tokens and have an address recorded in the pause-day snapshot.
Circle has not published the full manual redemption procedure or its expected processing time. The company said detailed instructions would appear in its Help Center when the process opens.
No automatic conversion will occur for tokens left on Noble. Holders seeking payment after the pause must contact Circle and complete its manual review process.
Circle said its work within the Cosmos ecosystem would continue through Injective and other networks connected through the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. The company did not announce a replacement native issuance partner for Noble.
