TechFlow news — On December 16, according to The Block, stablecoins are attracting increasing attention from venture capital. Y Combinator has listed stablecoins as a key focus area for its Winter 2025 cohort, with multiple projects securing significant funding: stablecoin infrastructure project usdx.money raised $45 million at a $275 million valuation; Binance Labs invested in Perena, a Solana-based stablecoin protocol; and Quantoz Payments, a MiCA-compliant EU stablecoin issuer, received investments from Tether, Kraken, and others. Stripe acquired stablecoin payments platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, marking the largest M&A deal in the cryptocurrency industry.
Will Nuelle, partner at Galaxy Ventures, expects that by the end of 2026, stablecoin transaction volumes in non-crypto use cases such as trade finance and payment processing will reach $1 trillion, capturing over 1% of the global cross-border B2B payments market share. Juan Lopez, partner at VanEck Ventures, predicts that within the next three to five years, approximately 30% (around $20 billion) of U.S.-Mexico remittances will be conducted via stablecoins.
