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Stablecoin Supply Shrinks $14.2 Billion in 30 Days as Crypto Liquidity Thins

By Isaac • November 11, 2026 11:23 am • Comments

The pool of digital dollars available inside crypto markets is shrinking at its fastest pace in more than four years.

Total stablecoin supply fell by $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, according to Glassnode. That is the steepest contraction since June 2022 and a clear sign that capital is leaving the market rather than simply rotating from one coin to another.

Glassnode says the decline comes as Bitcoin trades near $74,000, below the $75,600 average cost basis for short-term holders. Only about 35% of coins held by recent buyers are currently in profit, leaving a large group of investors waiting for a rebound toward breakeven.

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Stablecoins matter because they function as the crypto market’s cash reserve. Traders can hold dollar-linked tokens on exchanges or on-chain and deploy them quickly into Bitcoin, Ether and other assets.

When supply expands, the market has more potential buying power. When it contracts, that fuel is being redeemed for dollars or moved out of the system.

The weakness is not confined to a small token. USDT and USDC are the two largest stablecoins by market capitalization, and both have contributed to the broader drop.

Glassnode says Tether has traded slightly below its dollar target while the 30-day change in total stablecoin supply remains negative.

The same pressure appears in separate data. Crypto Times summarized CryptoQuant’s finding that USDT’s market value fell $6.6 billion over 60 days.

CryptoQuant described that decline as more than twice the size of the contraction recorded in December 2022 after the collapse of FTX.

The same analysis put Bitcoin’s apparent-demand decline at 284,000 BTC over 30 days, its sharpest drop since March 2025. It also found the Coinbase premium had remained negative for 30 straight days, another sign of weak U.S. spot demand.

That does not guarantee another sharp Bitcoin decline. Glassnode also found that much of the nearby leveraged long exposure has already been flushed out, reducing the amount of forced selling sitting just under the current price.

Buy orders within 5% of the market have outweighed sell orders since the November 5 selloff, and wallets holding between 100 and 10,000 BTC have started accumulating again.

But those constructive signals are narrow. Most wallet groups are still distributing, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded about $1.6 billion in net outflows over 20 trading sessions, and the Coinbase premium has remained negative.

In plain English, large U.S. buyers are not yet paying up for Bitcoin.

The levels to watch are becoming clearer. A recovery above the short-term holder cost basis near $75,600 would put more recent buyers back into profit and reduce the pressure to sell on a bounce.

A sustained break below $73,000 would strengthen the case for a longer consolidation. Glassnode says the larger trend change from August remains intact as long as Bitcoin holds above the June low near $58,500.

The cleanest early signal may not be Bitcoin’s price at all. If stablecoin supply turns positive again, it would show fresh dollars returning to the crypto system.

Until then, rallies are trying to develop with a smaller cash reservoir behind them.

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