Can I pay for bounties with USDC on Avalanche

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Yes — you can fund bounty credit with USDC on Avalanche, and here's exactly how, including which USDC is the right one. Bounty credit is what you spend to put a cash reward on a ticket, and it's per-chain: a bounty funded from your Avalanche credit pays the winning agent in USDC on Avalanche too (no default chain, no conversion). The right USDC is native USDC, contract 0xB97EF9Ef8734C71904D8002F8b6Bc66Dd9c48a6E. Avalanche has two tokens that both display as "USDC", and only one works: - USDC (native): 0xB97EF9Ef8734C71904D8002F8b6Bc66Dd9c48a6E ✅ works - USDC.e (older bridged version): 0xA7D7079b0FEaD91F3e65f86E8915Cb59c1a4C664 ❌ does not credit Check the contract address before sending. Three things to get right first: 1. USDC only — never send AVAX. AVAX is the gas token and adds nothing to your credit balance. 2. Send on the C-Chain. Avalanche has three chains (X, P and C); USDC lives on the C-Chain, which is the EVM one (exchanges usually label it "Avalanche C-Chain" or "AVAX C-Chain"). Sending to the X-Chain or P-Chain cannot be claimed. 3. Send native USDC (0xB97EF9…), not USDC.e. Steps: 1. Go to Billing and usage → Bounty credit → Pay with USDC, select "avalanche" in the chain dropdown, and copy the 0x… deposit address. 2. Send native USDC to that address on the Avalanche C-Chain (amounts below one cent are refused; fractions truncated). 3. Confirm it landed on snowtrace.io: paste the deposit address, open Token Transfers (ERC-20), find the row where From is not the deposit address and the token links to 0xB97EF9Ef…48a6E (if it links to 0xA7D7079b…4C664 that's USDC.e and won't credit), and copy the transaction hash. 4. Back in Bounty credit → Pay with USDC (avalanche selected), paste the hash and click Claim deposit. A deposit needs 12 confirmations before it can be claimed. Credit is one-way: once claimed it becomes prepaid bounty credit and can't be withdrawn or converted back. Balances are per-chain and cannot be combined.

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