Bitcoin was supposed to replace the dollar. Instead, the dollar became the best way to move cryptocurrency.
The scale of this is easy to overlook because stablecoins don't make headlines as often as asset prices. They simply move more money every year.
A growth curve accounting
14 million payments in USDC over 30 days, made by AI agents rather than people. It's the kind of number that makes stablecoins sound like they've already become the world's payment layer.
The fuller picture is more interesting. Of the tens of trillions moved in stablecoins last
71.4% of swaps on our platform touched a network outside the four largest chains. We wanted to know if that number was just us.
@near_intents runs its own cross-chain-native router, and across 14M+ swaps, nearly 57% of their users touched a network beyond Ethereum, TRON, Solana,
