Stablecoin Usage
- Estimates by the US Federal Reserve Board indicate that more than 80% of trade volume on major centralized crypto exchanges involves stablecoins as part of the traded pair.
- Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) surpassed $10 billion in 2025, with stablecoins acting as a primary settlement layer.
- Stablecoin usage in DeFi applications accounts for roughly $60 billion, showing strong utility in decentralized finance as of early 2025.
- Stablecoin usage in cross-border payments remains under 1% of global flows but is accelerating rapidly in 2025 as infrastructure evolves.
- DeFi total value locked (TVL) in 2025 is about $123.6 billion, with stablecoins contributing around 40% of that.
- Over 43% of B2B cross-border payments in Southeast Asia now utilize stablecoins.
- The number of freelancers globally paid in stablecoins increased by 39% compared to H1 2024.
- USDC’s integration into Visa’s Cross-Border Payment system has expanded to over 20 countries in 2025.
- In Q2 2025, USDC bridged volume across chains exceeded $5.1 billion, a 22% increase from Q1.
- As of July 2025, USDC secured $7.3 billion in DeFi total value locked (TVL), topping USDT’s $4.9 billion.
- USDT leads on Tron-based DApps, with over $3.2 billion transacted in Q2 2025 alone.
- B2B stablecoin flows annualize at $36 billion and P2P flows at $18 billion as of early 2025.
- DeFi liquidity pools with stablecoin collateral have increased by over 40% in TVL in 2025.
- Protocols like Aave and Compound increased stablecoin-backed loans to over $14 billion in Q3 2025 with borrowing APRs near 6.7%.
- Business-to-business payments have contributed $94.2 billion in settlement volume between January 2023 and February 2025, suggesting corporate treasurers have discovered practical applications for blockchain-based payment rails.
- CEXs now hold $50 billion in ERC-20 stablecoins, with USDC reserves growing 1.6 times to $8 billion in 2025 alone.
- B2B stablecoin payments surged 30x to $3 billion monthly in 2025.
- Stablecoin remittances represent 3-5% of global flows in 2025.
Financial System Impacts
- Ahmed and Aldasoro (2025) estimate that a $3.5 billion inflow into stablecoins (roughly two standard deviations) reduces Treasury bill yields by around 2.5-5 basis point.
- Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs attracted $74 billion in 2025, with stablecoins enabling efficient on-ramps.
- Stablecoins processed $5.7 trillion in cross-border payments in 2024.
- In 2025, about 13% of e-commerce platforms will have integrated algorithmic stablecoins to serve privacy-oriented and global buyers.
- In 2025, 5 major payment processors are actively rolling out support for algorithmic stablecoins, marking a step toward mainstream adoption.
MORE STABLECOIN STATISTICS:
Transaction Volume: https://airdropbee.com/stablecoin-statistics-transaction-volume/
Marketcap and Supply: https://airdropbee.com/stablecoin-statistics-market-cap-and-supply/
Regulation and Adoption: https://airdropbee.com/stablecoin-statistics-regulation-and-adoption/
Reserves, Transparency, and Peg Stability: https://airdropbee.com/stablecoin-statistics-reserves-transparency-and-peg-stability/
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