As stablecoin markets have released more fiat-pegged tokens, the stablecoin economic has grown by 3.59% over 17 days since December 8. On Saturday, December 25, the stablecoin economy’s $167 billion market valuation represents 6.68% of the entire $2.49 trillion crypto market economy.
Stablecoin Issuance jumps 3.5%
There’s a great number of stablecoins in existence today that are pegged to the value of fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. Dollar is currently the most popular stablecoin, there are many others. On Saturday, the total value of all the stablecoins in existence is $167 billion, up 3.59% since our newsdesk’s last stablecoin report. Today, tether (USDT), the most popular stablecoin is at around $77.7 Billion. It’s spread across multiple blockchains.
Tether’s sizable market capitalization is 46.52% of the entire stablecoin economy today. The second most stablecoin by market capitalization is USDC, which has $42.4 billion. USDT has increased by 5.7% in the last month. However, USDC rose 14% over the 30 last days. BUSD, UST and DAI are the third, fourth, and fifth biggest stablecoin markets valuations, respectively. BUSD’s $14.8 billion market cap increased by 14.6% during the last month and UST’s issuance jumped by 36.6%.
60% of Today’s Trades Are Paired With Stablecoins
Makerdao’s stablecoin DAI saw a 2.9% increase in value to $8.9 million this month. Terra Protocol’s UST stablecoin is 9.18% larger with a valuation of around $9.8 billion at the time of writing. MIM and FRAX saw significant issuance increases with anywhere between 15.6% and 42.4% in the last month. In the last 30 day, the stablecoin origin dollar has risen more than 102%. Meanwhile, SUSD has jumped 38.7%.
Friday’s trade volume for the stablecoin market was $55.4 Billion, which is $92.1 Billion in total volume. So 60.15% are now paired with stablecoins in every trade. For instance, the leading crypto asset in terms of market valuation, bitcoin (BTC), has seen around 59.68% of today’s swaps with tether (USDT). Similar metrics are also available for ethereum, the second most important crypto asset. 51.45% of all current ether swaps with USDT were made using ETH.
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