4,708 New Payment Corridors Opened in One Year 🛣️ In the 12 months to June 2026, Chainalysis tracked 4,708 new cross-border stablecoin corridors between countries. Together, they moved $2.64 billion. A corridor is simply a route between where money leaves and where it lands. Until recently, most stablecoin value travelled along a small number of busy highways. That is starting to change 👇 📍 The highways are still huge The top quarter of corridors carries 96.1% of cross-border stablecoin value, and it grew 70.8% over the period. 📍 The side roads are waking up The other three quarters of corridors carried just $0.26 billion in the previous period. This time, they moved $8.66 billion, more than 33 times as much. 📍 The payments are everyday-sized Cross-border stablecoin transfers rose 77.5% to $220.3 billion, with an average payment of about $3,000. That fits suppliers being paid, families receiving money and savings moving out of unstable currencies, not institutional trades. 🔑 Why now? Chainalysis links the growth to new regulatory frameworks, including the GENIUS Act in the US, MiCA in the EU, and rules in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. Clearer rules make it easier for businesses to use stablecoins for real payments. ➡️ For $BTC payment and partnership teams, the signal is clear: the next wave of growth may come from routes that traditional finance found too small, too costly or too complex to serve. And these numbers are conservative. Chainalysis counts only transfers it can attribute to a country on both ends, so the real volume is likely much higher. 💬 Which corridors do you expect to grow fastest next year? #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights#