Open USD supply on Ethereum tops $100M in its first week

ANALYSISOpen USD supply on Ethereumtops $100M in its first week29IMPORTANCECLOSED2NEWS MEDIA2PIECESOct 7, 2026 18:02blockboard.net

OpenUSD’s supply on Ethereum reached $100.6 million in its first week, after starting from a late-September level that was about one-tenth as large. First-week activity also showed most of the wider supply being staged with partners, custodians and market makers, while DEX volume across four networks was limited through Oct. 5.

What this rests on

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Open USD’s rapid growth on Ethereum brought attention to institutional influence in stablecoin markets and concerns about liquidity concentration and market stability.
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OpenUSD’s Ethereum supply reached $100.6 million in its first week, about 10 times its late-September level.
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Most of OpenUSD’s broader supply was first staged with partners, custodians and market makers during the first-week blockchain activity.

What it means

Who it affects, what changes and what is still unconfirmed

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Users and market participants watching OpenUSD on Ethereum will notice that the token already has a large supply on the network, and that most of the broader supply was initially placed with partners, custodians and market makers. The limited DEX volume through Oct. 5 shows that early activity was not concentrated in decentralized trading venues.

Market reaction

ET Ethereum the event is about this asset from 2 h before to 4 h after the line marks the first headline
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-0.99 % before publication
+0.76 % after
$2,546price at publication
12series points

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.

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Oct 7 17:58
Crypto Briefing scoop
Breaks the event: $100M
+2 min
Oct 7 18:00
CN Crypto News Flash adds
Adds $10M and $4.1M

Where this sits in the Ethereum series

WhenWhat happenedFigure
1.0 years ago ETH a 4.245 $ high today it sits -43.0 % from there
4 months ago ETH a 1.566 $ low today it sits +54.5 % from there

From what we have stored, starting 1.0 years ago.

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