Earlier this year, we asked When One Billion ETH Transactions? And as part of our focus on transaction growth, we began digging into the global stablecoin market — which is now sustaining >$1 billion per day in transaction value.
To better understand the growth of the global stablecoin market, we leveraged data from Coin Metrics to create a new report:
This report details the sustained growth in transaction volumes and aggregate transaction value of the stablecoin industry. We also break out several important trends:
Stablecoins demonstrating sustained growth in transaction volume and value
- Each of the past four months have exceeded $1.0 billion in daily aggregate transaction value. May 2020 saw daily average transaction value surpass $1.5 billion.
- In 2020, average daily active addresses is >88,000.
Tether’s (USDT) successful transition to Ethereum
- In January 2019, just 1% of all USDT transaction volume occurred on Ethereum.
- In May 2020, 88% of all USDT transaction volume – and 77% of all USDT transaction value – occurred on Ethereum.
- For context, USDT-ETH accounts for 16.3% of all Ethereum transactions in 2020.
DAI’s successful transition from SAI
- In 2019, Maker averaged $775MM in monthly volume, almost entirely via SAI.
- In 2020, Maker is averaging $1,642MM (+189%) in monthly volume, almost entirely via DAI.
Reserve-Backed Stablecoins (RBSC) transformation into Crypto Dollars
- RBSCs include USDC, BUSD, GUSD, HUSD, TUSD, and PAX.
- With a 6-month transaction CMGR of 32%, RBSC’s are the fastest-growing category of stablecoins.
- RBSCs are becoming Crypto Dollars powering a new platform for global commerce.
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Popular Smart Contract Addresses:
- USDT-ETH: 0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7
- USDC: 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48
- BUSD: 0x4fabb145d64652a948d72533023f6e7a623c7c53
- GUSD: 0x056Fd409E1d7A124BD7017459dFEa2F387b6d5Cd
- HUSD: 0xdf574c24545e5ffecb9a659c229253d4111d87e1
- TUSD: 0x0000000000085d4780B73119b644AE5ecd22b376
- SAI: 0x89d24a6b4ccb1b6faa2625fe562bdd9a23260359
- DAI: 0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f
- PAX: 0x8E870D67F660D95d5be530380D0eC0bd388289E1
