Trails integrates Circle CCTP for 1-click cross-chain USDC transactions

Crypto transactions shouldn’t take more than 1-click. But today, finding the right chain, the right token, bridging, swapping, and paying gas means too many clicks, and a lot of user frustration.

With Trails and CCTP, we’ve solved this with 1-click crypto transactions. Using any token. On any EVM chain. With any wallet. Anywhere. CCTP is natively integrated into Trails, providing a low-slippage, high-volume bridge for USDC that powers speedy transfers across supported chains. When a user initiates a cross-chain transaction, Trails automatically finds the best route, using CCTP’s burn-and-mint process for fast and reliable settlement.

By unifying chains, wallets, and liquidity into one global network, Trails aggregates spending power across tokens, wallets, and chains. Users can pay, swap, or fund, without manual bridging, swapping, or worrying about gas. Trails gives users the flexibility to pay gas in stablecoins like USDC through Permit (EIP-2612) compatibility, making onchain payments faster and more intuitive.

This integration directly addresses one of crypto’s biggest challenges: fragmented liquidity and broken checkout flows. With Trails and CCTP, developers reduce cross-chain complexity, users transact seamlessly, and businesses can unlock a new standard of Internet-native commerce.

The problem: Fragmented liquidity limits adoption

The crypto industry has made major strides in scaling blockchains, improving wallets, and advancing digital asset adoption. But this progress has also created a new challenge: fragmented liquidity, fragmented buying power, and fragmented user experiences.

Today, value is scattered across many chains, tokens, and wallets. To make a simple USDC payment or deposit into DeFi, users are forced through multiple steps: bridging, swapping, re-approving, and paying extra gas fees. Each step adds friction, drives drop-off, and leaves businesses struggling with lower conversion, higher churn, and missed revenue opportunities.

The innovation: = CCTP

CCTP is a permissionless onchain utility for moving USDC natively across blockchains. Instead of relying on wrapped assets or pooled liquidity, CCTP uses a burn-and-mint architecture:

1. Burn USDC on the origin chain.
2. Circle observes and attests to the burn event on the source chain. With Fast Transfer, the attestation is available immediately.
3. Mint the same amount of native USDC on the destination chain.

CCTP introduces:

• Fast transfers: faster-than-finality cross-chain USDC settlement in seconds
• Low slippage and reliability: No dependency on AMMs or pool balances.
• Programmability: Post-mint “Hooks” automate deposits, swaps, or contract interactions.
• Chain Support: Now live on 17 blockchains, with additional expansions expected.

CCTP effectively turns USDC into a universal, composable asset for a multi-chain experience.

The solution: Trails and CCTP Fast Transfer

CCTP lays the foundation, and Trails turns it into a 1-click experience.

Trails is 1-click transaction rails for your app. It unifies liquidity across tokens, chains, and wallets, turning fragmented assets into usable capital. No complex flows, no manual bridging or swaps. Just intent-based execution powered by seamless CCTP USDC transfers.

Trails aggregates a user’s balances across tokens and wallets. If funds are already on the right chain, they route directly. If not, Trails orchestrates a swap → bridge flow under the hood to successfully execute a transaction.

CCTP handles the burn → attest → mint flow behind the scenes, delivering native USDC 1:1 without relying on liquidity pools. With Fast Transfer, users see a soft-finality mint in seconds while hard-finality settlement completes in the background.

“Integrating CCTP into Trails from day one creates cross-chain USDC transactions that are fast and reliable. By combining CCTP’s Fast Transfer architecture with Trails’ 1-click orchestration, we’re enabling developers with frictionless USDC mobility across chains, wallets, and applications, and laying the groundwork for Internet-native commerce.”
Peter Kieltyka, Co-founder and CEO of Trails and Sequence

Key benefits for users

• Pay in seconds with any wallet, any token, on any EVM chain.
• No manual bridging, no re-quotes, no surprises, the exact USDC amount arrives.
• Experience blockchains as one unified network rather than isolated silos.

This integration isn’t just a better checkout. It’s crypto commerce catching up to the UX standards users deserve (and expect).

Key benefits for developers

Trails unlocks three core primitives for apps:

• Pay: Facilitate payments using full cross-chain liquidity.
• Swap: Embed in-app cross-chain swaps without manual approvals.
• Fund: Drive deposits with any token to your app.

All of this in 1-click, through one SDK, with no contract changes using Trails.

Developers gain:

• Access to the full buying power across wallets and tokens.
• Reliable settlement without dependence on third-party liquidity pools.
• The ability to sponsor gas for users to deliver a true frictionless flow.

1-click crypto: Powering Internet-native commerce

Most products still treat each chain like a walled garden. Trails treats crypto as one unified network. With CCTP, USDC becomes fully portable. With Trails, it becomes fully spendable.

Together, Trails and CCTP transform USDC from simply portable to truly spendable across chains, apps, and wallets:

• Users get instant, low-slippage payments that feel as smooth as web checkout.
• Developers get a single integration that abstracts complexity into one confirmation.
• Businesses unlock Internet-native commerce: programmable, scalable settlement across the open blockchain economy.

Trails and CCTP set the foundation for internet-native commerce, where stablecoins move across apps and chains with the speed, predictability, and simplicity users expect.

Build 1‑click, cross‑chain USDC experiences today. Learn more and start building with Trails, visit trails.build.