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If you have other cryptocurrencies, you can use a bunch of different DEXes to purchase USDC right now.

A popular one is Uniswap, here is USDC: https://app.uniswap.org/#/tokens/ethereum/0xa0b86991c6218b36... (currently trading at 1.000 USD at Uniswap)

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Don't know what this 1.000 is supposed to mean, but Uniswap is never trading dollars anyway: they do not exist in defi.

One can calculate the implied USDC/USDT rate from that very page by pricing a swap for 1 ETH or BTC for USDT vs same for USDC. The USDT quote is similar to CEXes for dollars, and the USDC is substantially higher, aka value of 1 USDC is well below 1, on Uniswap itself.

1.000 is the implied rate. Uniswap does it for you.

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