Ethereum Hits Historic Milestone with $165 Billion in Stablecoins

• Ethereum has hit a historic mark with stablecoins and has exceeded $165 billion in supply, dominating 57% of the market.
• Despite its weak 27% share, Ethereum has taken a lead in the stablecoin market, thus beating its competitors by a large margin.
• The boom of tokenized assets, such as gold and US Treasuries, has significantly contributed to Ethereum gaining 200 percent in the price since April 2024.

Ethereum has reached a historic milestone, recording a record supply of stablecoins. The network has resulted in an addition of about $5 billion in new stablecoins in the past week. This influx increased the overall stablecoin market of Ethereum to a reach of 165 billion, a milestone. According to RWA.xyz data, the supply of Ethereum-based stablecoins has put claims above 57% as of January 2024 since the start of the year.

ETH already dominated the stablecoin market. Its closest competitor, Tron, is limited to only 27% of the market, and Solana is far behind with a bit less than 4%. The network is set to position itself as the stablecoin leader with the further evolution of the ETH-based one. This control has highly contributed to ETH increasing its market share and ecosystem.

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Ethereum Dominates Tokenized Gold and US Treasurys Market

This growth in the supply of stablecoins is not the only arena in which ETH has recorded an improvement. It has also been under the network with the tokenized gold at an all-time peak, where it currently has a valuation worth $2.4 billion. 

Source: Token Terminal

As of 2024, the number of tokenized gold exceeded two times, becoming a marker of more prominent role of ETH in the tokenized commodities market. Ethereem holds the 77% market share in the tokenized commodities, and the share grows by 97% when the layer-2 Polygon network gets added on board.

This has solidified its penetration further due to the fact that ETH could tokenize a stimulating range of assets. “More than 70% of the market for tokenized US Treasuries is controlled by the network.

This is the second-largest tokenized-asset blockchain in ETH and deserves only personal credit. The widespread interest of Ethereum in the tokenized financial products contributed to the rapid rise of the network.

This increase in assets holding ETH has helped in pushing the prices of Ether up. Since April 2024, Ether has seen its price rise an unbelievable 200% as compared to its all-time high of just under $5,000 on August 24. 

Ethereum’s Institutional Growth Drives Price Surge

The value associated with Ethereum gains can also be traced to the growing interests of the treasury corporations, which have already purchased almost forty percent of the complete supply of Ethers already in the five months. The surging demand is an indication of projected growth in the long-term prospects of Ethereum.

Greater institutional adoption is another factor leading to the price increase of ETH. Major financial organizations consider Ethereum in order to execute the tokens. Fidelity, which is the third largest asset manager on earth, deployed an ETH blockchain-based asset fund that buys and sells the US Treasuries as per a specific algorithm. 

Fidelity launch their Digital Interest Token (FDIT) on the 1st of September and today its assets amount to $203.6 million. This move signifies that ETH is known and neutral, which makes it dependable when utilized by institutional investors.

The achievement of ETH in the stablecoin markets as well as the tokenized asset markets demonstrates that ETH is important to the blockchain ecosystem. This dominance in the past and continuation in these regions in the network entrenches this as a leader in the thus decentralized finance (DeFi) domains. 

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