According to @MilkRoadDaily, stablecoins on Ethereum have surpassed 140 billion dollars, reinforcing Ethereum’s role as a global settlement layer, source: Milk Road on X dated August 9, 2025. For trading, larger stablecoin balances on Ethereum have historically coincided with deeper DEX liquidity and tighter spreads across ETH, USDT and USDC pairs, source: Kaiko research on DEX market depth and stablecoin liquidity, 2023. In prior cycles, growth in stablecoin supply has aligned with higher risk appetite as tracked by stablecoin supply metrics, source: Glassnode research on stablecoin supply dynamics, 2021–2024. Monitoring net mint and burn of USDT and USDC on Ethereum alongside exchange netflows helps gauge near-term buying power, source: Nansen on-chain dashboards and CryptoQuant stablecoin flow metrics, 2022–2024. Elevated stablecoin transfer activity can increase gas usage and ETH burn under EIP-1559, affecting ETH net issuance, source: Ethereum Foundation EIP-1559 documentation and on-chain burn analytics.