Allium said stablecoin payment volume reached $482 billion in the first nine months of 2026, up 45% year over year, according to a report cited by BlockBeats.
Payments expanded
Stablecoin payment transactions rose 71% year over year to more than 1 billion, while stablecoin-linked cards recorded $3.9 billion in cumulative spending by September, ten times the year-earlier period.
Supply growth lagged
The report put total stablecoin circulating value at about $305 billion at the end of September, up 0.4% from the start of the year. It did not provide methodology or chain-coverage details for its payment-volume measure.
Source: BlockBeats flash.