How much USDT and USDC is there, and on which networks?

The wider picture

The key points from the guide this answer comes from:

1. Swift says over 90% of cross-border payments reach the payee's bank within an hour, but its October 2024 data showed only 43% credited to the end customer that fast.
2. The US ACH network carried 35.19 billion payments worth $93.00 trillion in 2025. Fedwire carried 217.3 million worth about $1.15 quadrillion, an average of $5.28 million each.
3. UK Faster Payments carried 5.55 billion payments worth £4.84 trillion in 2025, and Confirmation of Payee runs more than 2 million name checks a day.
4. About $183 billion of USDT was in circulation in October 2026, half of it on Tron. Firms that Artemis studied settled $136 billion of stablecoin payments from January 2023 to August 2025.

More questions on this

• How fast are international payments in 2026?
• How many payments go through ACH each year?
• Can I use these figures?

The full guide

Swift gets over 90% of payments to the payee's bank within an hour, but only 43% to the end customer. ACH carried 35.19 billion payments in 2025 and Faster Payments 5.55 billion, and about $183 billion of USDT was in circulation in October 2026. Every figure links to its primary source.

Read Cross-border payment statistics for 2026: SWIFT, ACH, UK rails and stablecoins, with its sources.

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