Jamie Coutts, a crypto market analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, believes that Ethereum (ETH) will win the “upcoming stablecoin wars”. He states that Ethereum and its broader ecosystem, including layer-2 projects like Optimism (OP), Base and Arbitrum (ARB), leads all other alternative networks across most network-adoption metrics. However, Coutts notes that transferring the top stablecoin by market cap, Tether (USDT), is “magnitudes more” expensive on Ethereum than on other networks, particularly layer-2s. He believes that Ethereum’s rollup-centric scaling roadmap will make L2 transactions even cheaper (10-100X) next year with EIP-4844 (proto-danksharding). The Bloomberg analyst also acknowledges the possibility that payments giant PayPal could launch its own layer-2 network in the future. PayPal rolled out a new stablecoin, PYUSD, earlier this month. Coutts says that stablecoin “adoption under the hood” is exploding and notes that the number of stablecoin users could even overtake Bitcoin (BTC) users in the next three to five years due to merchant company integration, product innovation and scaling. He states that a better metric for adoption than looking at cyclical volumes is addresses with > $1 stablecoin balance. This metric has just hit an all-time high of approximately 17.4 million. Since 2021, these addresses have gone up by 7X, outstripping Bitcoin and Ethereum growth.

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Information	Details
Geography	Global
Countries
Sentiment	positive
Relevance Score	8
People	Twitter, PayPal, Facebook, Jamie Coutts, Don’t Miss a Beat
Companies	Bloomberg Intelligence, PayPal, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism
Currencies	Bitcoin, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Tether, Optimism
Securities	None