Stablecoin switch quantity on Ethereum surpassed $8 trillion within the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a brand new all-time excessive, reported Token Terminal on Monday.
The $8 trillion milestone is nearly double the switch quantity determine for the second quarter, which was simply over $4 trillion, in line with the chart.
Stablecoin issuance on Ethereum elevated by round 43% in 2025 from $127 billion to $181 billion by yr’s finish, in line with BlockWorks.
“This isn’t hypothesis. That is international funds occurring on-chain,” commented “BMNR Bullz” on X. That is earlier than SWIFT-style integrations, full RWA tokenization, and institutional rails going stay. “The rails are already constructed. Adoption is catching up,” they added.
Ethereum transactions and addresses peak
The milestone coincided with an all-time excessive in complete every day transactions on the Ethereum (ETH) community, which hit 2.23 million in late December, in line with Etherscan. Ethereum every day transactions are at present up 48% for the reason that similar time final yr.
Token Terminal studies that Ethereum energetic month-to-month addresses hit an all-time excessive of 10.4 million in December.
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There was additionally a rise within the every day variety of distinctive addresses that have been energetic on the community as senders or receivers, which topped one million in late December.
Ethereum stays king for RWA tokenization
The Ethereum community stays the first settlement layer for stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization, with round 65% market share of complete RWA on-chain worth, which is round $19 billion, in line with RWA.xyz.
That market dominance will increase to over 70% when layer-2 and EVM networks are included.
Ethereum at present has a 57% market share of all stablecoins issued, with the Tron community in second place with a 27% share.
Tether (USDT) stays the market chief in issuance with $187 billion, equating to 60% of the complete stablecoin market, and greater than half of that’s on Ethereum.
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