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Aug 1, 13 tweets

Apollo just released some incredible data on how stablecoins are impacting demand for US treasuries and outlook for the sector

Few charts that caught my eye

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1/ Stablecoin transaction volume has surpassed both Visa and Mastercard

2/ Stablecoin combined market cap now sits at ~$250B

3/ USDC and USDT make up ~85% of the market cap

4/ Majority of the stablecoin supply is pegged to USD

5/ Transactions today mostly taking place in North America and Europe

6/ Stablecoin market cap is projected to almost 10x in just the next 3 years

7/ Number of active stablecoin addresses have been slowly rising

8/ Transaction volume has surpassed traditional financial systems such as Visa and PayPal

9/ Payments transaction volume still lag behind Visa and Mastercard

10/ Reserve asset composition of USDC and USDT

11/ Stablecoins are now the 18th largest holder of US treasuries

12/ Stablecoin demand for Treasuries growing at very rapid pace

13/ $6.6T of bank deposits at risk due to stablecoins

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