Circle will end USDC and legacy CCTP support on Noble by January 2027
New minting stops October 13, while redemptions continue until January 12; users and integrators should plan exits because Noble will not receive CCTP V2.
Circle said Thursday that it will discontinue support for USDC and the legacy version of its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol on Noble, the Cosmos-based chain. Circle's notice says Noble will not receive CCTP V2, Circle's newer cross-chain system.
The change is staged rather than immediate. Circle Mint will stop new USDC minting to Noble on October 13, 2026. Redemptions remain available through January 12, 2027, when Circle plans to pause the Noble USDC contract and all CCTP routes to and from the chain.
That schedule creates a migration window, not a guarantee. USDC can still move on Noble during the interim, but Circle says CCTP V1 burn limits will begin falling on October 31 and some exits may become harder after December 1.
What users and developers need to change
Circle Mint customers can continue using existing Noble withdrawals, express routes and redemptions through October 12. After new minting ends, institutional and self-custody holders can move USDC through an exchange that accepts Noble deposits, a decentralized-exchange swap on Noble or a CCTP V1 burn to a supported destination chain.
Circle says it will publish a shortlist of known exit venues but will not operate its own exit interface. That detail matters because any website or message promising an instant Circle redemption should be treated as untrusted until it can be checked against Circle's official help center and domain.
Application teams face a separate deadline. Integrators that still route Noble through CCTP V1 should remove the chain before January 12, 2027, or their routes will stop functioning. The technical dependency is the risk: a front end may continue to display a transfer option even after the underlying burn-and-mint path has become unavailable or constrained.
Circle's developer documentation says CCTP is a burn-and-mint utility, meaning native USDC is burned on one chain and minted on another after an attestation. Noble's exclusion from V2 therefore leaves Cosmos users with a narrower set of supported paths as the legacy system winds down.
The strongest conclusion is operational, not market-based. Circle is consolidating around CCTP V2, and Noble is the exception that will not receive the replacement. Holders should verify the network, destination and redemption route before moving funds, while developers should test fallbacks before the October and January deadlines. This is a support change, not a USDC depeg.
