Stablecoins will stall below $500B as transactions tumble

Stablecoins will not reach $500 billion on DefiLlama by December 31, 2026. Momentum will stall after the market hovered near $314.68 billion on June 21, 2026 and then slipped to $312 billion in Q2 2026, the first quarterly decline since Q3 2023. Transaction counts will keep weighing on growth after…