{"id":12300,"date":"2025-10-01T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/retail-stablecoin-use-climbs-to-ath-but-bots-still-dominate-report\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:36:10","slug":"retail-stablecoin-use-climbs-to-ath-but-bots-still-dominate-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/retail-stablecoin-use-climbs-to-ath-but-bots-still-dominate-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail stablecoin use climbs to ATH, but bots still dominate: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">CEX.IO exchange released a report showcasing growing stablecoin adoption, with bots still dominating transaction volumes. <\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_3abb53531df7d5a0461a326ed40dc21c\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Retail stablecoin use reached an all-time high, on track to surpass $60M by year\u2019s end<\/li>\n<li>USDC dominates volumes, with Tether in close second <\/li>\n<li>Base and Ethereum account for the majority of stablecoin transfers, with Solana falling off since January<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins just had their biggest quarter in history. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, CEX.IO published a report showcasing significant growth in both volume and total value. Still, questions remain about the large share of bot transactions in trading.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cex.io\/ecosystem\/q3-2025-stablecoin-report-35063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report<\/a>, the stablecoin market cap rose by $45 billion to approach $300 billion. At the same time, on-chain transfers hit a record $15.6 trillion. In terms of volume, USDC continued to dominate, accounting for 63% of volume in the third quarter of 2025. USDT was in second place at 32.5%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stablecoin transaction volume share by top asset | Source: CEX.IO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Still, the report notes that most of USDC\u2019s surge came from bot activity, which rose by 80% to 83% over the past three months. At the same time, USDT was the main driver of organic traffic in stablecoins.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Retail stablecoin transfers reach an ATH<\/h2>\n<p>One of the biggest trends is the rise in retail-sized transfers, or those worth $250 or less. These transfers reached an all-time high, both in September and in Q3 2025. According to CEX.IO, retail-sized transfers are on track to surpass $60 billion by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1562\" src=\"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759336564_807_Retail-stablecoin-use-climbs-to-ATH-but-bots-still-dominate.png\" alt=\"Stablecoin transfers below $250 by year\" class=\"wp-image-14421114\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stablecoin transfers below $250 by year | Source: CEX.IO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, retail transfers account for just 30% of all stablecoin transfer volume, which reached an all-time high of $15.6 trillion in Q3. Moreover, according to CEX.IO, bot transactions accounted for 70% of this figure, encompassing both retail and large transfer volumes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe surge of bot activity and unlabeled high-frequency transfers could raise questions about a potential increase of wash trading and non-economically-valuable transfers within the stablecoin space,\u201d the report wrote. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEX.IO exchange released a report showcasing growing stablecoin adoption, with bots still dominating transaction volumes. Summary Retail stablecoin use reached an all-time high, on track to surpass $60M by year\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12302,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions\/12302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}