All the Stablecoin News: Stripe, Visa, Coinbase, Circle, More

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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There has been a flurry of stablecoin news lately — from Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, Circle, and more — so we're doing a special bonus episode to cover everything that's been going on. Our experts highlight the signal versus the noise.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Web 3 with A16Z, a show about the next generation of the internet.
0:09.0	I'm Robert Hackett.
0:10.3	There's been a flurry of stablecoin news lately, so we're doing a special bonus episode to cover everything that's been going on.
0:17.3	Sonal and I are joined by A16Z Crypto's data science lead, Darren Matsuoka, who shares the
0:22.6	actual data behind the Stablecoin trend. Then we have Sam Broner, who's a deal partner here,
0:28.2	and our frequent author on Stablecoins, to analyze the news and help highlight the signal versus the noise.
0:35.2	We also have one of our regular episodes covering the broader
0:38.6	stablecoin trend and big picture dropping separately in the feed, also with Sam and
0:43.7	A16Z crypto founder Chris Dixon. So be sure to check that out next. As a reminder, none of the
0:50.5	content should be taken as investment, business, legal, or tax advice.
0:55.3	Please see A16Z.com slash disclosures for more important information, including a link to a list
1:01.1	of our investments.
1:03.9	All right, Darren, welcome to the show.
1:05.7	Thanks for having me.
1:07.2	As our data whiz, I'd like to ask you, what are you seeing out there when it comes to stablecoins?
1:13.3	By the way, Robert, you called him a data whiz, but I jokingly have told Darren since we started this podcast that we want him to come on as our data weatherman.
1:21.9	And this is our first time actually letting that happen.
1:24.9	Besides his doing the state of crypto report with you, he gets to be like the weatherman of the industry.
1:30.3	All right, Darren, as our data whiz and in-house resident weatherman when it comes to parsing these trends, what are you seeing out there when it comes to stablecoins?
1:40.5	Sure. Let me share a few numbers. And I'm going to pull these numbers from the stablecoin dashboard provided by Visa. I think Visa is a pretty neutral, very credible source here, and they've partnered with Alium, which is a data provider that's done some great work for the industry. If we just look at the top line metrics, over the last 12 months, stablecoins have done $33 trillion in
2:02.5	transaction volume. To put that into context, that is about three times the total amount of
2:08.3	transaction volume of Visa. It's about 20 times the transaction volume of PayPal. And it's quickly
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