# Stablecoin Remittances and Cross-Border Payments

> Stablecoin remittances each quarter: cross-border USDT and USDC flows between exchanges and payment providers, by corridor, chain and transfer size.

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**Question:** How much stablecoin value moves across borders, and through which chains and transfer sizes?

- Kind: Report in Voltfin Folio
- Topic: [Payments](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/payments)
- Chains: Multi-chain, Tron, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Polygon, Stellar
- Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is.

A stablecoin remittance is money sent from one country to another as a stablecoin, usually bought through an exchange or payment app in one country and cashed out through another. This report estimates how much stablecoin value crosses borders each quarter, by corridor, chain and transfer size, from transfers between labelled exchanges and payment providers.

Chains do not record countries, so each corridor comes from labels: the country where the exchange or payment provider on each side is licensed. That makes the report a measured lower bound rather than a full count. Transfers between personal wallets, or through providers without a public label, cannot be placed in a corridor and are reported on their own.

Context from public remittance statistics, such as the total value sent across borders each year, is cited with its source and edition, so the stablecoin share is never compared with an unsourced figure.

## Blueprint

### The quarter in one paragraph

How much stablecoin value moved between countries, the busiest corridors and chains and what changed since the last edition.

Cites: Cross-border stablecoin value this quarter; Corridors measured; Change against last quarter.

### Corridors

The largest country-to-country corridors by value and by number of transfers, with the providers and chains behind each one.

Cites: Value by corridor; Transfers by corridor.

### Chains and stablecoins

Which chains and stablecoins carry cross-border flows, and how their shares compare with all stablecoin transfers.

Cites: Cross-border value by chain; Cross-border value by stablecoin.

### Transfer sizes

Cross-border transfers by size band, separating personal remittance amounts from business payments.

Cites: Transfers by size band; Median cross-border transfer.

### Against the wider remittance market

Published totals for remittances and cross-border payments, each cited with its source, set beside the measured stablecoin flows.

Cites: Published remittance total, cited; Stablecoin flows as a share of it.

### What this report cannot see

The flows this report cannot see, through personal wallets, unlabelled providers and off-chain ledgers, with what each gap means for the figures above.

## How it will be measured

- Cross-border flows are stablecoin transfers between addresses labelled as exchanges or payment providers licensed in different countries; the labels and each provider's licensing country are recorded with their sources.
- Transfers are grouped into fixed USD size bands around typical remittance amounts, so personal remittances and business payments can be told apart.
- Transfers involving unlabelled personal wallets are counted by chain and size but not placed in a corridor.
- Global remittance and cross-border payment totals come from statistics published by international bodies and are cited with their edition; they are never mixed with on-chain figures without saying so.
- Every on-chain amount is pinned to blocks before the edition's date.

## Data it needs

- `payments_volume_daily` (to build): Stablecoin payment flows that look like payments rather than trading: merchant and payroll transfers, card settlements and remittance corridors, per chain and day.
- `address_labels` (to build): Labels for known addresses: exchanges, bridges, protocols, funds, treasuries, sanctioned addresses and known attackers.
- `stablecoin_flows_daily` (to build): Stablecoin mints, burns, transfer volume and active addresses per stablecoin and chain per day.
- `exchange_balances_daily` (to build): Balances held in labelled exchange wallets per asset, chain and exchange at day end, and net flows in and out.
- Source: Transfers between labelled exchange and payment-provider addresses, with each provider's licensing country (off-chain labels, recorded with their source)
- Source: USDT and USDC Transfer logs on covered EVM chains and TRC-20 transfers on Tron
- Source: Size bands around typical remittance amounts
- Source: Published cross-border payment and remittance totals from international bodies, cited with their edition

## Questions

### Can stablecoins be used for remittances?

Yes. A sender buys a stablecoin in one country and sends it to the recipient's wallet or to a provider in another country, where the recipient sells it for local currency or spends it. The on-chain leg settles in minutes on most chains, while buying and cashing out depend on local providers.

### Why are USDT and Tron common in remittances?

USDT is the largest stablecoin by supply, and Tron carries a large share of its transfers, supported by many exchanges in regions that receive remittances. The report measures each chain's share rather than assuming it.

### How is a cross-border transfer identified on-chain?

From the labels on both sides. When a transfer moves from an exchange or payment provider licensed in one country to one licensed in another, it is counted in that corridor. Labels are recorded with their sources, and unlabelled transfers stay out of corridors.

### What share of cross-border payments use stablecoins?

The report sets measured stablecoin flows beside published cross-border payment totals, cited with their source. The share is shown with both figures' definitions, because global totals and on-chain measures do not count the same things.

## Glossary

- **Remittance**: Money a person sends to family or others in another country.
- **Corridor**: A pair of countries between which money is sent, from a sending country to a receiving one.
- **Off-ramp**: A service that converts a stablecoin into local currency, such as an exchange or a payment app.

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- [Stablechain Tracker: Plasma, Tempo, Arc and Stable](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/stablechain-tracker)
- [Polygon Stablecoin Payments: Volume, Senders and Sizes](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/polygon-stablecoin-payments)

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