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Key Takeaways
- Total stablecoin supply has crossed $325 billion, a 10x increase from early 2021 levels
- Annual transaction volume hit $33 trillion, exceeding Visa and Mastercard’s combined $25.5 trillion
- 76% of stablecoin volume is now driven by automated bots and AI agents
- Regulatory clarity from the U.S. GENIUS Act and Europe’s MiCA is pulling banks and fintechs deeper into stablecoin infrastructure
Add the context, and it starts to matter considerably. That figure from Artemis’s findings represents a tenfold increase from where things stood in early 2021, and according to data from Artemis, it marks a new all-time high for an asset class that many in traditional finance spent years dismissing as a speculative sideshow.
The sideshow has become the main event.
A Two-Speed Payment System
What’s worth understanding here is not simply the size of the number, but the structure underneath it. The stablecoin market is not a monolith – it is, at this point, something closer to a two-speed payment system operating in parallel with the traditional...
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