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Stablecoin transfer volume hit a record $4.5 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, an a16z crypto report said this week, as Wall Street started pricing the sector as a structural risk to the credit-card networks that have run global payments for half a century.

“Stablecoin volume hit ~$4.5T in Q1 2026,” a16z crypto’s research team posted on X on April 24, citing its own quarterly tracker. “Nearly two-thirds of the volume originates from Asia, primarily Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan,” the firm added in a follow-up post, pointing to the region as the engine room of the boom. The Q1 number caps a steep ramp: total stablecoin transaction volume crossed $33 trillion in 2025, and the new tracker now isolates payment flows from raw chain activity.

The number landed as the broader market sat at roughly $320 billion in stablecoin supply, according to Marc Bauman. “The stablecoin market just crossed $320B,” Bauman wrote on X on April 22. “$USDT (Tether): $185.5B, 57.96% share. $USDC (Circle): $78.6B.” Prediction-market platform Kalshi echoed the volume figure the same day. “JUST IN: Stablecoin volume hit $4.5T in Q1 2026,” its trading account posted.

What turned the volume number into a Wall Street story was the reaction in legacy payment stocks. In a recent IMF working paper, Alex Copestake, an economist in the fund’s Research Department, and his co-authors argued that financial markets are pricing stablecoins as a disruptive force on legacy payment processors. The paper used an event study around the U.S. House passage of the $GENIUS Act to measure a roughly $22 billion abnormal drop in market value across 35 incumbent payment companies, with names including Visa and Western Union among the affected stocks. The pricing reaction sits alongside bank counter-moves targeting the same $323 billion market.

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