Stablecoin market value fell by about $14 billion from its May peak, with June seeing the largest monthly supply drop of $7.7 billion since 2022. Despite this, transaction volume surged 63% to a record $1.83 trillion in June, indicating stablecoins are increasingly used for fast payments rather than as idle digital dollars. Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC supplies both declined, while some funds moved into yield-bearing tokenized Treasury products. The shift highlights a change in stablecoin use from holding to active financial infrastructure, with transaction velocity becoming a key metric over market capitalization.
Tether's USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin backed by Anchorage Digital Bank, launched on the Celo blockchain, marking its first deployment outside Ethereum. The launch includes native minting, burning, and planned gas fee payments directly in USAT, sim...
Tether AI has unveiled a new vision model for edge devices as part of its QVAC platform, enhancing on-device AI capabilities without relying on cloud computing. The platform supports local AI inference and training, with recent updates adding image c...
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has partnered with Tether to pilot blockchain-based tokenized securities and stablecoin settlements, aiming to modernize Africa's financial markets. This collaboration focuses on digital asset education, securiti...
Flare Networks CEO Hugo Philion announced plans to extend the FAssets system, currently supporting XRP, to Bitcoin through a wrapped FBTC token. This move aims to attract institutional investors by using confidential computing technology to keep larg...
In Q2 2026, TRON's TRX token gained 3%, while Bitcoin fell 4%, driven by TRON's strong stablecoin activity. TRON saw 3.5 million daily active users and processed 11.8 million daily transactions, mostly stablecoin transfers. USDT supply on TRON hit a ...
