Hedera’s Stablecoin Surge: Driving payments globally for DeFi and RWAs
Hedera Overview - July 18, 2025
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The ecosystem insights
HBAR token price: $0.27 (+80%)
Market cap: $11.3B (+73.85%)
Total value locked (TVL): $131.5M (+71.58%)
Total staked: 15.36B (-1.54%)
Transactions per second: 10.13 tx/s (+100.59%)
The percentages and metrics are calculated from its change over a 14-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Hedera Highlights
Diving deeper into some of the biggest updates from Hedera.
#️⃣ What’s happening: Stablecoins have gained massive attention across the web3 industry with its proven product-market fit. On Hedera, this asset class has opened opportunities for users in countries like the Philippines and Australia to access financial rails in a more efficient way, HBAR Inc. Chief Business Officer Gregg Bell noted during the Hedera Quarterly Webinar with Token Relations.
#️⃣ Why it matters: Stablecoins have facilitated transactions on Hedera that unlock new opportunities for individuals globally.
“We’re seeing a lot of use of the Hedera Stablecoin Studio for minting some of these new assets and different fiat currencies,” Bell said. “So it's enabling conversion to be really fast and cheap, and it's giving more optionality for people to have the assets that they want to have and the dominations that they want to want for purchasing things.”
The growth of stablecoins on Hedera is evident by the numbers. The network’s stablecoin market cap rose by 49% on the month to $165.3M, according to DefiLlama. This growth was largely driven by USDC, with a 368% increase in amount issued, according to usdc.cool data.
Beyond market cap, Hedera’s Stablecoin Studio, an open-source SDK that's designed to simplify the issuance and management of stablecoins, provides developers with a user-friendly interface. This can be used to integrate features like proof-of-reserve, KYC compliance or custody solutions, Bell said. In turn, users in regions that may have unique financial needs or exist in underdeveloped financial systems can have access to more mature financial services.
“There’s a company, FSEO, that does invoice factoring and they’re using USDC on Hedera,” Bell said. “Firms like Red Swan are using stablecoins to facilitate tokenized real estate transactions, where people can pay their rent or facilitate the payment to bond holders or investment holders.”
#️⃣ The bigger picture: Stablecoins are seeingunlocking a massive growth opportunity, with the global market for it surpassing $264 billion according to CoinGecko data.
”So getting more stablecoins into these systems to enable both yield opportunities for people, the ability to borrow effectively, like that's key for functionality for individuals,” Bell said. ” And [Stablecoin Studio] helps to create consistency so that trading partners are able to recognize the same features of various securities.”
Beyond payments and DeFi, stablecoins on Hedera can support diverse use cases like money market funds and supply chain finance. In tandem with Hedera’s fee structure, sending a stablecoin from wallet to wallet on the network will always cost $0.001, the team said on LinkedIn. This opens the door for greater user adoption as lower network fees can reduce the barrier of entry for most where cost can be a deterrent.
Unpacking the hash
Accenture shared it will test AI using the Hedera network and NVIDIA Blackwell to prove public sector workflows follow policy
Isle Finance, a supply chain-focused PayFi protocol incubated by a fintech firm BSOS, launched to the Hedera network
Hedera To Earn announced its platform’s users can earn ecosystem rewards for everyday activities like gaming and shopping
Gate.io added support for USDC natively on Hedera
Lloyds & Aberdeen deployed a tokenized collateral for FX trades on Hedera
Hedera was added as a supported network of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Project Acacia
Ecosystem hieros
Highlighting the companies, communities and users tied to Hedera ecosystem
ICYMI: Hedera hosted its community call with The Binary Holdings, Xeni and Hashgraph Head of DevRel Ed Marquez to discuss expanding user adoption for ecosystem dApps
SaucerSwap unique active wallets rose 50% on the month to 5.29K for its Hedera-based DEX, DappRadar data shows
SALT integrated its South Korean mobile trading app to the Hedera network
Bonzo Finance hit $45.78 in TVL, an all-time high for the non-custodial lending protocol, DefiLlama data shows
Kraken, a centralized exchange, listed support for HBAR token
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