The number of cryptography professionals receiving wages in digital assets has tripled in the past year, with 9.6% now paid in stablecoins, according to a report by the venture capital company Pantera Capital.
Based on more than 1,600 responses from cryptography professionals in 77 countries, the report indicates a transition to native blockchain pay systems and increasing institutional trust in sustained assets of a dollar, such as USDC Coin (USDC) and USDT (USDT).
The USDC of Circle has opened the way, representing 63% of all the wicks of the payroll, although the USDT de Tether is the most exchanged stable in volume in the world.
“We first thought that this was due to our investigation into more western,” said the report. “After digging more, we found it very interesting that none of the main pay suppliers in space (Deel, Remote, Onding) offers usdt for pay.”
Combined, the two stablecoins represented more than 90% of the declared payments. According to Defillama, the total market capitalization of all stablecoins amounted to $ 268.6 billion at the time of writing.
According to the report, the remuneration based on tokens is also increasingly structured around long -term alignment, with almost 88% of acquisition hours now set at four years, compared to 64% the previous year.
The results suggest that in the blockchain industry, practical experience and technical expertise often prevail over academic references. Professionals holding a baccalaureate obtained an average salary of $ 286,039, notably higher than those with a master’s degree at $ 214,359 or a doctorate at $ 226,858.
Push of the Circle company
Circle aggressively positions the USDC as a basic tool for institutional payments, B2B financial pay and financial infrastructure, not just trading.
In March 2024, the company joined forces with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the mother company of the New York Stock Exchange, to explore the integration of the USDC and token funds in the global derivative markets.
Two months later, Circle asked for a federal charter of the trust bank from the American Currency Controller, part of its long -term strategy aimed at providing regulated infrastructure for payments, custody and the settlement of stablescoin.
In July, US President Donald Trump signed the law on engineering, establishing a bipartite regulatory framework for stablec issuers like Circle. Supporters of the bill cited USDC as a model of compliant digital dollars.
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