Stablecoins went wild in the days before Bitcoin’s recent surge

Cointelegraph

Published Oct 23, 2020 04:06PM ET

Updated Oct 24, 2020 06:20PM ET

In the days preceding Bitcoin’s latest rise in price, stablecoins went wild, exhibiting some largely unprecedented behavior.

Stablecoins: all stablecoins inflow transaction and address count of all exchanges. Source: CryptoQuant.

On October 18, stablecoins moving to exchanges reached record highs of 60,000 and 56,000 respectively, according to data from CryptoQuant. The outlet's data tracked USDT on Ethereum, PAX, USDC, TUSD, DAI, SAI, BUSD, HUSD and USDK. When it comes to the total inflow of all stablecoins in terms of the dollar value, no extraordinary trends were detected.

Stablecoins inflows to exchanges. Source: CryptoQuant.
Tether market capitalization 2020. Source: CoinMarketCap.

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