Stablecoins Attract Big Companies: U.S. Corporations Signal a Crypto Payment Shift
About 29% of 100 executives from the 500 biggest U.S. corporations by revenue stated that their companies are considering or are interested in stablecoins, according to Coinbase’s State of Crypto report, which was released on Tuesday. Compared to merely 8% who provided the same response in 2024, this is a significant increase. Compared to the previous year, this indicates a more than threefold increase.
The high transaction costs and sluggish transaction speeds of the existing payment systems were major factors driving interest in stablecoins. Meanwhile, 7% of those surveyed stated that stablecoins are now held or used by their organization.
SMBs Flock to Stablecoins: Coinbase Report Reveals Massive Interest Spike
Companies with fewer than 500 workers have also expressed more interest in stablecoins than they did the previous year. 81% of the 251 financial decision-makers at small and medium-sized enterprises who responded to the study expressed interest in utilizing stablecoins, up from 61% a year earlier.
In the meantime, 46% of respondents stated they will probably utilize cryptocurrency within the next 3 years. Over 82% of SMBs also stated that they believe cryptocurrency can help with at least one financial problem facing their company, like cross-border payments and transaction fees.
This growth is driven by the belief among consumers and both the F500 and SMBs that stablecoins can help address some of their biggest financial pain points. Use cases include remittances with near-instant and low-cost cross-border transactions, lower payment processing fees, increased payroll efficiencies, inflation protection, and bridging payments gaps for the under and unbanked,
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Stablecoins Outperform Visa, Mastercard in Volume: Are Traditional Payments Dying?
According to Coinbase, the monthly volumes of organic stablecoin transfers have also considerably increased, peaking at $719 billion in December 2024 and $717 billion in April 2025, the two largest months to date. In 2024, the combined volumes of Visa and Mastercard were surpassed by 7.7% to reach $27.6 trillion in total stablecoin volumes. Ownership of stablecoins increased over this time, reaching over 161 million in May.
That is more than the population of the 10 largest cities in the world combined and more than the 142 million combined users of the US ‘Big Four’ mobile bank apps, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank,
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