The competition surrounding one of crypto’s best use cases is ramping up as USDC growth outpaces USDT.

Matt Hougan predicts that once merchants get comfortable with B2B stablecoin payments, they’ll roll them out across domestic retail transactions.

Meanwhile, Ripple USD has surged to No. 4 by trade volume on CEXs just five weeks after launching.

The USDC issuer has acquired Hashnote and USYC, the largest tokenized money market fund.

Tether launched USDT0 on Kraken’s Layer 2, Ink.

Over 20 venture firms participated in the platform’s seed funding round, including F-Prime Capital and Galaxy Ventures.

The British Virgin Islands-based stablecoin issuer is relocating to the Central American nation that was the first to have a national bitcoin treasury.

In its 2025 Look Ahead report, Fidelity Digital Assets foresees National Bitcoin reserves, stablecoins evolving, and tokenization becoming the next ‘killer app.’

The Resolv stablecoin USR has jumped to a market cap of $387 million from $13.7 million on Dec. 1.

This is USDT’s sharpest decline since the FTX crash, falling from $140 billion to $137 billion amid growing regulatory pressure in the EU.