Stablecoins have spent years sitting in the background of crypto, but the latest payments data suggests they’re moving into a far more familiar role. Visa Business and Economic Insights found that retail-sized stablecoin volume for USDC, USDT and PYUSD rose from $0.5 billion to $69.8 billion between 2019 and 2025, a sign that dollar-linked tokens are being used in smaller, more practical ways than before. That point gets sharper when you look at how people are paying. Visa also reported that fiat-backed stablecoin purchases on Visa-branded cards outpaced crypto purchases in the second half of 2025, and the average ticket size was below $100 once B2B activity was excluded.

It’s a story about crypto becoming easier to live with.

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