CoinMeta data: According to a report from Allium, from January to September this year, the amount of stablecoin payments increased by 45% to $482 billion, the number of payments increased by 71% to 1.04 billion, and the average amount per payment decreased to $462. During the same period, the supply of stablecoins increased by 0.4% to $305 billion. Among them, the supply of Tether, Circle, and Ethena decreased, while other issuers saw a net increase of $6.9 billion. Payments in the third quarter increased by 51% year-on-year, with September seeing payments reach $72 billion. In the third quarter, the number of payments using AI smart contracts increased to 68.3 million, and stablecoin card consumption grew tenfold to $3.9 billion.