The whole market capitalization of the stablecoin sector within the cryptocurrency house has endured its 17th consecutive month-to-month decline in August, falling by 1.28% to $124 billion, the bottom degree since August 2021.
In accordance to CCData’s newest Stablecoins & CBDCs report, each BUSD and TUSD stood out in experiencing important declines of 9.35% and 9.15% to $3.37 billion and $2.75 billion respectively, after main cryptocurrency alternate Binance adopted First Digital USD (FDUSD).
In the meantime, First Digital Labs’ FDUSD has seen its market capitalization skyrocket 1,410% to $305 million after being launched final month after being adopted by the main cryptocurrency alternate. Buying and selling volumes on pairs involving FDUSD surpassed $500 million final month, whereas the stablecoin remains to be solely the fifth-largest on Binance.
FDUSD’s buying and selling volumes are additionally set to profit from Binance’s zero-fee buying and selling promotion, with extra buying and selling pairs set to be listed within the close to future. Per CCData’s report, the USDT/FDUSD buying and selling pair noticed $437 million in volumes, accounting to 86.2% of the stablecoin’s quantity.
The report additionally particulars that in July, stablecoin buying and selling volumes fell 6.14% to $453 billion, making it the second-lowest month-to-month stablecoin buying and selling quantity on centralized cryptocurrency buying and selling platforms seen this yr, and the third-lowest since April 2019.
As of August 13, stablecoin buying and selling volumes on centralized buying and selling platforms reached $194 billion, which suggests they’re on monitor to document traditionally low month-to-month figures.
When it comes to central financial institution digital currencies (CBDCs), the report particulars that China’s Central Financial institution Governor has revealed that the Digital Yuan, the nation’s CBDC, reached 1.8 trillion RMB in transaction quantity, equal to $248 billion, in June.
The variety of transactions utilizing the Digital Yuan, the report provides, surged to 950 million, representing a 1,600% rise in transaction quantity and a 164% rise in transaction rely from August 2022’s replace.
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