In the past three months, during the DeFi (decentralized finance) frenzy, the market capitalization of the five largest stablecoins increased by 52%, to almost USD 16.6bn, data shows.
While the most popular stablecoin, tether (USDT), increased its market capitalization by 47%, to more than USD 14bn, smaller players, such as USD coin (USDC), trueUSD (TUSD), dai (DAI)