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In March, @0xPolygon reached a historic milestone of 4 million unique @USDC users. This also represents a 38% increase compared to February.
@USDT0_to on Polygon, meanwhile, matched its all-time high (ATH) of 2.2 million users set in May 2025.
Both key stablecoins are showing phenomenal growth on Polygon.

Crypto payment projects raised $3.1B in Q1 2026.
In March, total funding reached $2.2 billion thanks to a $1.8B investment by @Mastercard in @BVNKFinance. Notable projects that received investments in March include @KASTxyz ($80M), @arq_finance ($70M), and @utexocom ($7.5M).
Interestingly, 19 deals were closed in March, just as in January, but in January, no single investment stood out as dominant. Therefore, January remains a more active month for investments than March and February combined.
In February, 12 deals were completed, but the total amount was modest at $39M.
January proved to be m

The 2025 data presents a mixed picture. On one hand, stablecoins still lag significantly behind 🇺🇸 ACH ($33T vs $89T) and even more so behind 🇪🇺 SEPA ($259T projected for the full year).
On the other hand, they have already surpassed Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and PayPal combined: $33T vs $30.5T. For infrastructure that hasn’t even existed at scale for a decade, that’s a notable result.
It’s also worth understanding the context behind the numbers.
The total settlement volume of stablecoins includes a substantial share of on-chain activity that doesn’t qualify as “payments” in the traditiona

. @MoonPayCommerce has processed over $40,000 000 in single-payment volume and $560,000 in fees since its launch in October 2025.
88% of this volume comes from payments on @solana, with the remainder coming from @ethereum, @0xPolygon, and @base.
Weekly volume has remained between $1.1m and $2.2m.
Data:
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MoonPay Commerce (formerly known as Helio) is a platform for accepting crypto payments, founded in 2022 and acquired by @moonpay in January 2025.
The service allows merchants, developers, and creators to accept cryptocurrency (USDC, SOL, ETH and hundreds of other tokens) directly into thei

In recent weeks, investors have been cashing out at a record pace
typically, such aggressive selling of stocks indicates that the market is bottoming out 🥶

Since I was the one who created this analysis of @RedotPay transaction volume, I’d like to clarify @zachxbt point that the majority of volume flows through developing regions.
This take is only half true, because in Q4 2025, the leaders among all regions were Europe, North America, and APAC (Australia, Japan, South Korea, and others), which accounted for about 40%.
Europe and North America also showed the highest growth in metrics for the entire year of 2025.

Cross-border payments are the most promising use case for stablecoins. Stablecoins address a massive need involving billions of dollars moving between countries every day, where every percentage point of fees represents real money belonging to real people.
Transactions are becoming cheaper, but it’s not even about the price, it’s about the fact that transactions are becoming faster, more transparent, and more accessible.

In February 2026, stablecoins surpassed ACH in monthly volume for the first time.
Stablecoins - $7.2T
ACH - $6.8T
Visa - $1.2T
Stablecoins are quietly becoming the foundational infrastructure for global payments: no banks, no weekends, no borders.
Data used: @artemis

The number of payment transfers on Polygon is growing rapidly every month and exceeds 2M transfers per month.
Key providers include @CoinflowLabs, @blindpay, @Revolut, @tazapay, @rio_latam, @Paxos, @moonpay, and others.
In October, the number of transfers was less than 1M per month.

Top-5 Payment Chains by Volume (2025)
1/ @trondao
Tron leads all blockchains in payment volume. In 2025, this figure reached $68.2B.
One of the standout examples of Tron chain’s use in payments is @RedotPay, which reached $185M per month in card payment volume and has a total card volume on @trondao of $2.7B. Payment projects such as @oobit, @COINPAYMENTSNET, @spritzfinance, and others also actively use this chain.
YoY - 493%
2/ @ethereumfndn
@ethereum came in second, reaching $41.1B in 2025. Ethereum remains a leader in nearly all payment sectors. @raincards is actively used for card payme

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It's still very early ...
Traditional card payments exceed stablecoin card transactions by ~ 67,000 times in terms of monthly transaction volume.
The stablecoin market accounts for less than 0.0015% of the total volume of card transactions, the market is still very early.
According to my projections, the number of stablecoin card transactions will grow to approximately ~4–5M per month across all stablecoin cards by 2026.
This growth will be driven by rapidly developing card products such as @raincards, @AviciMoney, @useTria, @RedotPay, @ether_fi, @Cypher_HQ_, @gnosispay, @oobit, @KoloHub, @T