Stablecoins, Still “Crypto”? – Issue #610
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Stablecoins are being repositioned from trading tools into core financial infrastructure. Alex Novozhenov outlines how regulation, institutional adoption, and payments use cases could reshape the market by 2026.
→ 2026 Stablecoin Predictions: From Crypto Plumbing to Payments Infrastructure
The Focus
For years, stablecoins functioned as internal utilities for crypto markets. They moved value between exchanges, supported arbitrage strategies, and acted as temporary parking rails for traders. That framing no longer fits the way they are being used.
What is changing now is not the technology. It is the role stablecoins are being assigned inside the financial system.
Payment networks are…
