Circle Internet Financial has introduced the Bridged USDC Standard, a framework enabling Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain teams to deploy bridged USDC with the possibility of upgrading to native issuance later. This standard seeks to resolve the "cold start" problem by allowing new blockchains to leverage USDC liquidity without waiting for native issuance, thus facilitating early ecosystem activity. Bridged USDC, created by third parties, serves as a proxy to USDC, helping bootstrap liquidity and fostering new use cases. Unlike native USDC, bridged USDC can be quickly deployed on emerging blockchains, which are proliferating faster than Circle can issue native USDC. The Bridged USDC Standard allows for seamless transitions of ownership of bridged USDC token contracts to Circle, enabling a potential upgrade to native USDC while preserving existing user balances and integrations, thus minimizing liquidity fragmentation and the need for migrations. Implementations of this standard are already underway on platforms like Linea and Scroll, and Circle aims to expand this approach to other architectures and potentially extend it to other stablecoins like EURC.