
Stablecoins total market cap just surpassed $150 billion
The total market cap of all stablecoins surpassed $150 billion on Monday. Tether’s USDT is still the largest stablecoin on the market, but Center’s USDC is catching up.
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Checking against the internal record of blacklisted addresses cost USDC users millions of dollars each month. This makes the stablecoin USDC around 40% more expensive to use than the decentralized stablecoin DAI.



