Standard Chartered pushes $2 trillion stablecoin market forecast to 2030 as supply growth stalls
Standard Chartered shifted its $2 trillion stablecoin market forecast from 2028 to 2030 and linked the change to stalled supply growth over the past year. New coverage also adds that the bank kept the $2 trillion target unchanged, and one report put the sector near $309 billion. Another report broke the market into four segments, with USDC leading payments and AI transactions part of the contest for reserve yields.
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Stablecoin users and issuers now face a longer timeline around Standard Chartered’s $2 trillion forecast, which is now set for 2030 rather than 2028. Market participants watching supply and payments activity will also notice that one report places the sector around $309 billion and says the target itself remains unchanged.
In practice, the market framing is narrower and more segmented than a single headline number. Standard Chartered’s four-part view separates payments, reserve-yield competition, and other uses, and USDC is identified as leading payments in that breakdown.
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