Part 2: Fall Update
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Stablecoins have quickly become a credible alternative to traditional payment and settlement networks. In just five years, their supply has grown from under $10 billion to over $300 billion. To better understand how stablecoins are actually used, we spoke with 22 companies across a range of use cases and collected estimates from 11 more. This report offers a rare, bottoms-up look at how stablecoins are being used in the real world.
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How Big are Stablecoin Payments, Really?
Based on the data provided by contributing firms and the additional onchain estimates, we were able to specifically attribute $136 billion of stablecoin payment settled for various payment types between January 2023 and August 2025, with the vast majority of these settling on blockchains directly. The annual run rate pace for these settlements totalled approximately $118 billion in August 2025.
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Top Blockchains Used for Stablecoin Transactions in 2024
The most popular blockchains employed to settle customer flows, as a share of value sent, were Tron, followed by Ethereum, Polygon (Ethereum L2), and Binance Smart Chain. This mirrors survey findings from our 2024 report which found that users preferentially used those same five blockchains, albeit with Ethereum being the most popular network.
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The Most Used Stablecoins for Global Transactions
Tether's USDT was by far the most popular stablecoin used to settle flows for firms in the study. We explore the breakdown of USDT versus Circle's USDC on a country-by-country basis later in the report.
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Which Countries Send the Most Stablecoins?
Based on the geographic data provided by firms for the study, combined with additional geographic attribution estimates obtained by looking at IP addresses and timezones of on-chain entities as their transactions reach blockchain nodes, we were able to identify countries originating the bulk of stablecoin transactions. The USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and the UK were the top stablecoin sending countries.
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