Bloomberg has reported on the state of stablecoins in 2025, giving a forecast by 2030.
Last year the total amount of stablecoin transactions surpassed any year in previous history, amounting to $33T in annual volumes (data used from Artemis Analytics). What this means essentially is that both the largest payment networks Visa and Mastercard were eclipsed.
Tether’s USDT stablecoin launched over a decade earlier, and was first intended and primarily used for trading and margin on exchanges. Its rise is much attributed to the pandemic initially (by Paolo Ardoino, CEO) due to the restrictive nature and inability for people worldwide to access physical cash.
So the fact that today the use-case for stablecoin transactions is now varied between P2P (Peer-to-Peer), B2B (Business-to-Business), cross-border, FX, and others is very meaningful.
Circle’s USDC stablecoin did better in 2025 with about 55% of the total pie, as did the company with a successful IPO in June. A broader more positive regulatory environment is big factor.
The reporting also provides with Bloomberg’s own prediction for the next 5 years.
It specifically projects a total transaction volume of up to $56T by the year 2030, which given how stablecoins have really only just started to become “mainstream”, it doesn’t sound too far fetched as adoption scales across use-cases for individuals and businesses.
