Circle’s euro-backed stablecoin, EURC, surged to a document provide as mounting U.S. commerce tensions and a weakening greenback seemingly gasoline demand for euro-denominated digital belongings.
EURC’s provide grew 43% over the previous month to 217 million tokens price $246 million, rating above Paxos’ International Dollar (USDG) and beneath Ripple’s RLUSD by market capitalization, RWA.xyz data exhibits. A lot of the EURC tokens flow into on the Ethereum community, up 35% in a month to 112 million, whereas Solana noticed the quickest, 75% growth to 70 million tokens. Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2, additionally noticed a 30% development to 30 million in EURC provide.
The token additionally skilled an uptick in on-chain exercise, with lively addresses rising 66% to 22,000 and the month-to-month switch quantity surpassing $2.5 billion, up 47% in a month, per RWA.xyz.
EURC is presently the most important euro stablecoin available on the market, however it lags far behind its dollar-denominated counterparts. Dollar-pegged stablecoins make up 99% of the quickly rising stablecoin market, led by Circle’s $58 billion USDC and rival Tether’s $143 billion USDT token.
The accelerating development of EURC could possibly be an indication of rising demand for diversification to euro-denominated digital belongings, significantly as world traders navigate growing financial uncertainties within the U.S. with the Trump administration wide-scale tariff rollout. The buck weakened 9% towards the euro because the begin of the yr.
Xapo Financial institution, a Gibraltar-based Bitcoin-focused monetary providers agency, reported Monday a 50% improve in euro deposit volumes in the course of the first quarter, outpacing the 20% rise in USDC stablecoin deposits. In the meantime, deposits in USDT declined by over 13%.
“This speedy improve in quantity got here amidst mounting concern about the way forward for U.S. greenback primacy and the specter of a U.S. recession as markets braced for Trump’s deliberate ‘Liberation Day’ in April,” the agency stated within the report.
Stablecoin swap volumes between overseas forex pairs on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges additionally soared to multi-year highs final week, dominated by the EUR-U.S. greenback pair, Blockworks data confirmed.
EURC additionally has seemingly benefited from Tether’s withdrawal of its euro-backed stablecoin (EURT) with E.U.-wide MiCA rules going into impact this yr, whereas quite a few exchanges delisted USDT for E.U. customers to adjust to rules, together with Binance on the finish of March.
