According to ChainCatcher news reported by The Block, the stablecoin space is attracting increasing attention from venture capital. Y Combinator has listed stablecoins as a key focus area for the Winter 2025 batch, with several projects receiving significant funding: the stablecoin infrastructure project usdx.money completed a $45 million funding round at a $275 million valuation; Binance Labs invested in the Solana ecosystem stablecoin protocol Perena; the MiCA-compliant EU stablecoin issuer Quantoz Payments received investments from Tether, Kraken, and others. Stripe acquired the stablecoin payment platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, setting the largest merger and acquisition deal in the cryptocurrency industry.
Galaxy Ventures partner Will Nuelle predicts that by the end of 2026, the transaction volume of stablecoins for non-cryptocurrency use cases like trade finance and payment processing will reach $1 trillion, accounting for over 1% of the global cross-border B2B payment market share. VanEck Ventures partner Juan Lopez predicts that in the next 3-5 years, about 30% (approximately $20 billion) of remittances from the U.S. to Mexico will be completed via stablecoins.