“All through 2026, Binance has constantly captured the most important share of $USDC spot buying and selling exercise, processing $5 million-$10 billion in each day quantity, roughly 10-20 occasions greater than most different buying and selling venues, which generally keep under $0.5 billion,” mentioned Anastasia Melachrinos, head of analysis at Kaiko.
Different main exchanges have remained broadly inside their earlier $USDC buying and selling ranges, in accordance with Kaiko, suggesting Binance itself has pushed a lot of the rise.
“As Binance accelerates $USDC‘s attain in rising markets, that dominance is prone to develop even additional,” Melachrinos mentioned.
Extra stress on Tether
$USDC has a market capitalization of about $74 billion, making it the second-largest U.S. greenback stablecoin behind Tether’s roughly $140 billion USDT.
“There’s a clear incentive on either side to develop $USDC by way of Binance’s person base and infrastructure,” mentioned Martins Benkitis, co-founder and CEO of Gravity Staff.
Circle has additionally been constructing past stablecoin issuance. Its Circle Funds Community is designed to attach monetary establishments for stablecoin funds, whereas its lately introduced $400 million acquisition of Singapore-based Tazapay would add native banking relationships and fee rails throughout rising markets.
The technique comes as stablecoin competitors broadens past Circle and Tether. Banks and fee firms together with Visa, Mastercard and Stripe have been pushing additional into stablecoin funds and infrastructure.
