Stablecoins Transfer $400M Per Hour on Average, Study Shows
A Coinbase and The Block study reveals stablecoins move over $400 million per hour, with off-hours transactions leading volume.
Stablecoins are processing more than $400 million in transfers every hour on average, according to a new joint study by Coinbase and The Block — underscoring just how deeply dollar-pegged digital assets have embedded themselves into around-the-clock financial activity.
One of the study's most striking findings is that off-hours transfers dominate overall volume, suggesting that stablecoin activity is not concentrated during traditional market windows but instead flows continuously, likely driven by international users, automated protocols, and decentralized finance applications operating outside U.S. business hours.
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The scale of that throughput positions stablecoins as a significant — and growing — rails for value movement, rivaling legacy payment infrastructure in raw transaction volume. The pattern of off-peak dominance further signals that demand is increasingly global and automated rather than retail-driven during conventional trading sessions.
The research adds analytical weight to ongoing regulatory and institutional conversations about the role stablecoins could play in modernizing payment systems. Lawmakers and central bankers have cited transaction volume data as a key benchmark when weighing oversight frameworks for dollar-denominated digital assets.
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