This is also one of the reasons why stablecoin issuers want to build their own L1 public chains. Currently, in the top 5 Gas burned on Ethereum in the last 30 days, two are from stablecoin transfers: USDT at 3rd and USDC at 5th. These "transaction fees" are something that stablecoin issuers cannot benefit from at all. As we enter a rate-cutting cycle, the income of stablecoins, which can only rely on interest as their sole source of revenue, will inevitably decrease significantly. Therefore, if they can also take a bite out of the transaction fees, or Gas, it would open up a new source of income.
In the context of a future lacking innovative breakthroughs and a stablecoin market poised for a bull market, major stablecoin protocols are beginning to build their own public chains, essentially migrating the real transaction revenue that originally belonged to Ethereum or other stablecoin public chains into their own ecosystems.
🤔 So, will a situation similar to L2/L3 offloading Ethereum occur again after stablecoins build their own public chains?
The answer seems likely to be yes.
After all, stablecoins are the cornerstone of DeFi, and their migration also signifies the migration of DeFi.
Excerpt from a rhythmic article:
Although Tether's own profits are also exaggeratedly high, this mainly comes from interest rate spreads and investment returns, unrelated to the trading volume of USDT. For every additional USDT transaction, Tether's direct revenue is zero, as all transaction fees go into the pockets of the public chain.
Circle's situation is similar. Every transaction of USDC on Ethereum consumes ETH as gas fees. At the current transaction fee level on Ethereum, if USDC could reach the trading scale of USDT, just the transaction fees alone could bring tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue to the Ethereum network. However, Circle, as the issuer of USDC, receives not a penny from these transactions.
What frustrates these companies even more is that the larger the trading volume, the more missed revenue they incur. The monthly trading volume of USDT has grown from several hundred billion dollars in 2023 to now over one trillion dollars, yet Tether's revenue from trading remains zero.
This "visible yet unattainable" pattern is the core driving force behind their decision to build their own public chains.
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