Stablecoin Adoption Accelerates: B2B Payment Trends, Solutions, and Regulation

This IDC Perspective discusses how stablecoins have quickly become a dominant force in the B2B payments landscape, driven by their ability to deliver fast, transparent, and cost-effective global transactions. With a total addressable market in the trillions and a surge in active wallets, stablecoins now rival and surpass legacy payment giants like Visa and Mastercard in digital payment flows. Recent regulatory developments, such as the GENIUS Act, are beginning to provide a clearer framework, encouraging greater institutional confidence and accelerating adoption. Meanwhile, payment providers like Stripe, Bitwave, and B2BinPay are significantly reducing deployment hurdles through user-friendly APIs, enterprise security features, and robust compliance infrastructure, making it increasingly practical for businesses to pilot and scale stablecoin-enabled payment solutions alongside their traditional systems."Stablecoins have the capacity to completely transform B2B payments by providing companies with near-instant, cost-effective settlement and removing many of the barriers typically associated with international payments," says Jordan Steele, research manager, Worldwide Financial Applications Support, IDC. "As clear regulatory frameworks emerge and major institutions accelerate their adoption, it is clear that stablecoins are positioned to become a mainstay in corporate payment strategies around the world."