USDT on TRON surpasses Bitcoin in CoinsBee payment volume

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USDT on TRON surpassed Bitcoin in completed payments on CoinsBee during a 90-day period from June 4 to September 1. TRC-20 USDT produced about 1.8 times as many completed payments as Bitcoin and 1.9 times as many as Ethereum in that window.

Stablecoin usage on CoinsBee

Year-to-date 2026: USDT on TRON represented 16.23% of all CoinsBee payments, up from 9.92% in 2025. CoinsBee described this as a 64% increase in payment share.
Within USDT activity on CoinsBee: TRC-20 accounted for 44.6% of transaction count and 64.5% of total USDT turnover.
Drivers: low transaction costs and broad exchange support increase payment utility relative to investment considerations.

Scope and caveats

Platform-specific data: results reflect CoinsBee only and do not represent global on-chain or merchant payment volumes across wallets, exchanges, or chains.
Promotional effect: CoinsBee and TRON DAO ran a 2% discount using code USDT-TRC from September 21 to October 5, which may influence payment behavior during that campaign.

Conclusion: within CoinsBee’s dataset, USDT on TRON became a larger payment rail than Bitcoin by completed transaction count over the measured period.

This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.

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