📌 2025 Key Points
📈 Strong Growth:
Euro-pegged stablecoins like $EUR have grown a lot in 2025, with the combined market cap rising toward ~$680 M — more than double from before stricter $EUR rules. MiCA regulation ($EUR Markets in Crypto-Assets) helped re-ignite interest and trust.
🔒 Regulation Boost:
The MiCA framework (effective since mid-2024) requires stablecoins to be fully backed, audited, and redeemable, which has drawn institutional interest and new issuance.
🔗 New Projects:
EU's, a fully MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin from German-linked issuers, launched in July 2025, showing regulatory progress.
A consortium of European banks is working on a larger euro stablecoin launch planned for 2026, pushing Europe’s digital payments evolution.
🔍 Transactions & Usage:
Monthly activity and usage have expanded sharply as people use euro stablecoins for trading, payments, and cross-border flows.
