{"id":32497,"date":"2020-11-28T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32497"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:57:55","slug":"tether-stablecoin-market-capitalization-nears-20-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tether-stablecoin-market-capitalization-nears-20-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether stablecoin market capitalization nears $20 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The circulating market capitalization of Tether&#8217;s stablecoins (USDT) reached $19.4 billion. Messari data indicate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The capitalization of the stablecoin USDC stands at $2.91 billion. The third-most popular stablecoin, DAI, sits at $1.08 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117877\" style=\"width: 1586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117877\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117877\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7.png\" alt=\"Tether stablecoin market capitalization nears $20 billion\" width=\"1576\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7.png 1576w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-7-1536x716.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/messari.io\/chart\/stablecoin-market-cap-(copy)-391E310D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Messari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since 2019, the supply of USDT on Ethereum (ERC-20) has grown rapidly. The number of tokens on the Tron-based tokens is gradually increasing as well. In parallel, the supply of Tether on the Omni protocol, originally serving as the technological backbone of the stablecoin, is decreasing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117876\" style=\"width: 1117px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117876\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117876\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMetrics-1.png\" alt=\"Tether stablecoin market capitalization nears $20 billion\" width=\"1107\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMetrics-1.png 1107w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMetrics-1-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMetrics-1-1024x630.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CoinMetrics-1-768x472.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1107px) 100vw, 1107px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/network-charts.coinmetrics.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coin Metrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the circulating supply of USDT has grown 4.4-fold. At current capitalization, Tether ranks fourth in lists such as CoinMarketCap or CoinGecko, trailing only Bitcoin ($315 billion), Ethereum ($58.3 billion) and XRP ($24 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The total market capitalization of popular stablecoins stands at nearly $25 billion \u2014 about 4.85% of the total cryptoasset market capitalization ($515 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In September, Tether&#8217;s market capitalization <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tether-market-capitalisation-surpasses-15-billion\">surpassed<\/a> $15 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The circulating market capitalization of Tether&#8217;s stablecoins (USDT) reached $19.4 billion. Messari data indicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1145,807,1245],"class_list":["post-32497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-market-analysis","tag-stablecoins","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32499,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions\/32499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}