Stablecoins now move more value than most crypto assets combined. The total market cap crossed $318 billion, and the category has become essential infrastructure for trading, remittances, payment rails, and increasingly traditional finance. The coverage here tracks the full picture: USDT and USDC supply changes as a leading indicator of risk appetite, reserve composition and attestations from Tether, Circle, Paxos, and the rest of the issuer landscape, regulatory frameworks like the GENIUS Act in the US and MiCA stablecoin rules in the EU, the banking partnerships that decide which issuers stay solvent through stress, yield-bearing stablecoins like sUSDe and the regulatory questions they raise, and the freeze actions that determine whether a stablecoin behaves like cash or a permissioned asset. Geography matters now too. Euro stablecoins are launching with backing from French and German banks. Shariah-compliant stablecoins are landing on UAE-licensed chains. Hong Kong and Singapore are shaping their own regimes. Coinliva covers the supply moves, the freezes, the depegs, the audit reports, the issuer earnings, and the policy fights that decide which stablecoins survive the next regulatory cycle. The category that started as a trading tool is now financial infrastructure, and the stakes have grown to match.
The delivery giant operates in 40+ countries and processed $75 billion in merchant sales last year. It is now working with Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo to replace fragmented regional payment rails with stablecoin payouts. Visa, Mastercard, and UBS are also on board.
The sector added $1.08 billion in a single week. Tether lost $271 million of it. USDS gained $503 million. The pecking order is shifting.
The fund is half the size of its 2022 vehicle. The thesis is completely different. Stablecoins, prediction markets, and AI agents replaced the Web3 dream.
At Consensus Miami, two of the biggest names in payments said the next wave of commerce will run on stablecoins and open protocols because traditional finance simply wasn’t built for machines.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
Brian Armstrong's January opposition to the CLARITY Act contributed to a Senate Banking Committee delay that stalled the bill for months. On April 11 he reversed that position, backing the current draft and aligning with Treasury Secretary Bessent's call for Congress to act — though the Senate committee has still not scheduled a markup.
MiCA has turned boardroom approvals into live infrastructure searches across Europe's largest financial institutions. USDC volume in the EU jumped 109% in six months as corporate treasury demand replaces speculative interest.
The stablecoin sector added $1.37 billion in the week ending April 11, 2026. USDC posted the week's strongest absolute inflow at $1.27 billion. BlackRock's BUIDL led all gainers with a 5.29% rise — while WLFI's USD1 shed 5.27%, losing $232 million tied to the project's ongoing controversy.
Finance Minister Roland Lescure calls euro stablecoin volume "not satisfactory" and endorses a 12-bank consortium building a MiCA-compliant alternative to dollar dominance.
Dollar-pegged tokens now move over $4 trillion a quarter and back over 80% of regulated B2B settlements. Understanding how they work is no longer optional for anyone holding crypto.
PUSD moves into a network co-built by First Abu Dhabi Bank, opening a direct path into a $3 trillion finance corridor.
The world's first fully regulated yen stablecoin launched in October 2025. USDT remains effectively restricted. Three megabanks are building their own tokens. Japan built the most restrictive stablecoin framework in the world on purpose — and it is now producing results.
