The provision of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a file excessive of $11.1 billion, CCData (a subsidiary of CoinDesk) stated in a analysis report on Friday.
The surge coincided with the launch of Donald Trump’s memecoin $TRUMP, which brought about a wave of inflows to the community, in accordance with the report. Stablecoin provide has risen by 73.6% since $TRUMP launched on Jan. 18.
Buying and selling exercise round $TRUMP resulted in file exercise on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and contributed to stablecoin provide on Solana, surpassing its earlier file set in 2022 and changing into the third largest community behind Ethereum and Tron, primarily based on this metric.
The report additionally stated that the market capitalization of all stablecoins has handed $200 billion, having grown by $37 billion since Trump gained the U.S. election in November.
The rise in provide has additionally coincided with a lower within the domination of Tether’s USDT, the biggest stablecoin with a market cap of round $140 billion. In line with CCData, its share of the sector dipped from 67.5% to 64.9% in January, the bottom since Could 2023.
One such beneficiary of this pattern seems to be Ripple’s USD, which grew to become the fourth-largest stablecoin by buying and selling quantity on centralized exchanges in January, the report stated.
Ripple spent a lot of the previous few years locked in a authorized battle with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC). The “Trump impact” has helped native token XRP leap by 33% to commerce at over $3.10 this month, and CEO Brad Garlinghouse has spoken of a bump in U.S.-based offers and hiring as effectively.
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