Stablecoins have quietly become crypto’s most critical infrastructure, serving as the bridge between crypto and fiat money.
🔹 Billions in MCAP
🔸 Trillions in settlement
🔹 Powering DeFi, payments & global trade
Let’s dive into the backbone of digital finance anon🧵
But why do we need stablecoins? Because neither side of the bridge was enough on its own.
🔹 Volatile assets can’t serve as money
🔸 Fiat rails are slow, costly & fragmented
🔹 Stablecoins bring speed & global reach
They’re the glue that makes crypto usable for everyday finance.
And that’s why adoption has exploded.
🔹 The market has exploded to ~300B MCAP, one of crypto’s fastest-scaling sectors
🔸 168B+ in trading volume
🔹 >50% of all on-chain activity now runs on stablecoins
From trading desks to remittances, they’ve scaled into crypto’s backbone.
At the top, a few heavyweights are leading the way 👇
🔹 @Tether_to $USDT ($173B): The global heavyweight
🔸 @circle $USDC ($74B): The institutional favorite
🔹 @ethena_labs $USDe ($14B): The fastest-growing synthetic dollar
Each plays a different role in how money moves on-chain.
The dollar still dominates the market, but local currencies are catching up.
🔹 Europe: EURC & EURS bringing euro liquidity on-chain
🔸 LatAm: BRZ & MXNT bridging volatile economies to digital rails
🔹 Asia: XSGD & JPYC pushing regional adoption
Stablecoins are going global 🌍
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