Circle mints $500M USDC on Solana as stablecoin cap nears $16B, but SOL stays weak

Circle minted an additional $500 million USDC on Solana, helping push the network's stablecoin market cap toward its $16 billion peak and bringing more than $370 million in weekly inflows. Despite USDC making up over 51% of Solana's stablecoin liquidity and Solana seeing a near 6% weekly supply increase, SOL has slid to multi-month lows and the SOL/ETH ratio fell nearly 3% this week.