The increasing number of different stablecoin tickers and token standards is fragmenting liquidity across the crypto ecosystem, according to onchain sleuth ZachXBT. This places a significant burden on users, resulting in a poor, costly, technical, and time-consuming experience.
Obstacles users face in transferring stablecoins across the crypto ecosystem include cross-chain bridging restrictions, gas and transaction fees that must be paid in the native token of the blockchain being used, and a lack of universal token support across exchanges. For example, imagine receiving USDPT to your Solana address but realizing your wallet doesn’t have USDPT on the default token list. You also need gas, so you bridge ETH from Ethereum and wait several minutes, and want to swap USDPT for USD on a centralized exchange.
From there, the user may realize that their exchange of choice doesn’t support the token or a swap on that token and is forced to bridge to a different blockchain, spend more on gas fees, download another wallet or sign up for another exchange to execute the transaction.
The lack of a smooth user experience and intuitive user interfaces (UI) in crypto remains one of the biggest hurdles to achieving mass adoption and parity with Web2 and traditional financial applications, industry executives told Cointelegraph.
According to Mert Mumtaz, CEO of remote procedure call (RPC) node provider Helius, crypto exchanges will eventually abstract away stablecoin tickers and present a front-end interface to users that only displays the fiat currency underlying the stablecoin, such as the US dollar or British pound. The exchanges will do the heavy lifting of crosschain swaps and transfers behind the scenes, allowing users to seamlessly interact with stablecoins from any issuer without the technical barriers.
AI agents and autonomous AI bots will also reduce the technical difficulty of using stablecoins from different issuers or across blockchain networks by managing wallets on behalf of users, Reeve Collins, co-founder of stablecoin issuer Tether, told Cointelegraph.
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