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Supply, peg, chain distribution, holders, issuer context, and public API data for EUR-denominated stablecoins.

What is this?

Euro Stablecoins is the euro stablecoin market reference. The site tracks supply, peg data, chain distribution, holder counts, mint/burn history, transfer activity, issuer context, and provides a free public API for EUR-denominated stablecoins.

The site currently tracks 13 EUR-denominated stablecoins deployed across major chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Stellar, the XRP Ledger, Algorand, Gnosis, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Linea, World Chain, Plasma, Concordium, Xahau, and Cosmos (Noble). See /euro-stablecoins for the full list of tracked stablecoins.

Data sources include on-chain RPC providers, public block explorers, CoinGecko, DefiLlama, and project/issuer disclosures. No paid data partnerships.

Data Sources

Supply data is fetched directly from on-chain sources:

  • EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc.) — totalSupply() via on-chain RPC and public block-explorer APIs
  • Solana — SPL Token supply via Solana JSON-RPC
  • Stellar — Horizon API asset stats
  • XRP Ledger — gateway_balances RPC
  • Algorand — Indexer API for ASA supply
  • Concordium — CIS-2 token supply via CCDScan API
  • Xahau — gateway_balances RPC
  • Noble (Cosmos) — bank module supply via LCD REST

Peg data (EUR price, deviation) for the tracked subset comes from CoinGecko. Historical supply backfill, where applicable, draws on DefiLlama's stablecoin dataset and on-chain archival queries.

Peg metrics require an independent market price source. Redemption promises are not ingested as peg prices.

Methodology

Total Supply
Sum of totalSupply() across all tracked chain deployments for each stablecoin. This represents the total tokens minted on all chains.
Circulating Supply
For coins with publicly identifiable treasury addresses (currently EURC and EURS), circulating supply equals total supply minus tokens held in those treasury wallets. For coins without treasury labels, circulating supply equals total supply.
Market Share
Each coin's circulating supply divided by the combined circulating supply of all tracked stablecoins.
Period Change
Percentage change in total supply between the earliest available snapshot in the selected period and the most recent snapshot.
Chain Distribution
Supply breakdown by blockchain, derived from querying each chain's contract separately.
HHI (Market Concentration)
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index calculated from market shares. Above 2500 = highly concentrated. Below 1500 = competitive.

MiCA context

The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) is the EU's regulatory framework for crypto-assets, including stablecoins. Stablecoins that reference a single fiat currency are generally categorised as electronic money tokens (EMTs) and must be issued by an authorised electronic money institution or credit institution. The site uses the following display labels on each coin's fact sheet:

  • EMI Licensed — issuer presented as an authorised electronic money institution in an EU/EEA jurisdiction.
  • Credit Institution — issuer presented as a licensed credit institution (bank).
  • Under Review — license application pending or transitional period.
  • Not Regulated — issuer not EU-regulated under MiCA.

Labels reflect the issuer's public materials at the time of last review. They are informational and should be checked against the relevant regulator's public register and the issuer's own disclosures. Informational data only. Not legal, financial, or investment advice.

See /mica-stablecoins for the current grouping by status label.

Source classes used across coin pages

Coin pages separate observed market data from regulator-sourced facts, issuer documents, issuer commercial claims and unavailable or incomplete source coverage. This keeps reference pages factual without turning issuer disclosures into independent legal conclusions.

The classes below are the canonical claim taxonomy used across coin and issuer reference pages on the site. They are companion vocabulary to the per-coin × per-metric coverage labels documented on data coverage.

Market-data observed
Data collected or derived by eurostablecoins.xyz using its published methodology. Coverage can vary by coin, chain and source availability.
Typical fields
  • Supply (total and circulating)
  • Market share
  • Chain distribution
  • Peg data and rolling deviation
  • Historical supply
  • Holder counts
  • Mint and burn activity
  • Transfer activity
  • Public API availability
Example
EURC tracked circulating supply across Ethereum, Base, Avalanche, World Chain, Solana and Stellar.
Regulator-sourced fact
Information confirmed in a regulator, public register or national-authority source. The label describes the source basis, not a legal opinion by eurostablecoins.xyz.
Typical fields
  • EMI / credit-institution authorisation entries on a national register
  • CASP authorisation entries under MiCA Article 60
  • AMF, ACPR, BaFin, Bank of Italy, CSSF or equivalent national-register listings
  • Entries in EBA, ESMA or ECB public registers
  • Government gazettes and equivalent national-authority publications
Example
Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS is listed by the AMF as authorised to provide crypto-asset services under MiCA Article 60.
Issuer-document fact
Information taken from issuer-published documents such as white papers, terms, reserve reports, transparency pages or developer documentation.
Typical fields
  • MiCA white papers
  • Terms of service and redemption policies
  • Reserve and attestation reports published by the issuer
  • Transparency pages
  • Developer documentation, including contract-address pages
  • Issuer governance documents
Example
Circle’s EURC white paper identifies EURC as an e-money token under MiCA Article 3.1(7).
Issuer-disclosed commercial claim
Product or use-case language published by the issuer. These claims are shown as issuer positioning, not independent verification.
Typical fields
  • Product marketing pages
  • Press releases and corporate blog posts when used as positioning, not as legal disclosure
  • Use-case framing such as payments, treasury or developer access
Example
Circle markets EURC for euro-denominated payments and developer use cases.
No public source found
No public source has been identified for this field in the current methodology.
Typical fields
  • Issuer auditor when not publicly disclosed
  • Reserve composition when not publicly disclosed
  • Holder counts for a chain without a public indexer
  • Peg data when no independent market price source covers the coin
Example
No independent market peg source has been identified for HEURO under the current methodology.
Conflicting or incomplete source coverage
Available sources are incomplete, inconsistent or only cover part of the relevant market, chain or metric.
Typical fields
  • A regulator register and an issuer document that report different registration numbers
  • A chain tracked on-chain by eurostablecoins.xyz but not yet listed in the issuer’s developer documentation, or vice versa
  • Activity history that is partial because indexer coverage starts after the contract deployment
  • Tracker-vs-tracker disagreement on circulating supply due to different treasury treatments
Example
Circle’s white paper states an EMI registration number 17788, and the same document also includes a later field stating 737158; eurostablecoins.xyz cites both and does not resolve the discrepancy.

Writing rules for coin pages

These rules apply to current and future coin and issuer reference pages. They are not style preferences they are how the site assigns each claim to a source class so readers can see which kind of source backs a statement.

  1. Use direct factual language for regulator-sourced facts.
    When a fact is confirmed by a regulator, public register or national authority, write it as a fact and label the source class. Do not weaken it with issuer attribution.
  2. Do not write "according to issuer, they are licensed" when a national register source exists.
    If a national register lists the entity, cite the register. If only the issuer’s own document confirms it, say so and label the source class as Issuer-document fact, not Regulator-sourced fact.
  3. Use issuer attribution only for issuer documents, reserve disclosures, white paper statements and commercial claims.
    Phrasing such as "Circle’s white paper states…" or "Circle markets…" makes the source class explicit in prose.
  4. Do not treat redemption claims as market peg data.
    A redemption right or par-value commitment is an Issuer-document fact, not a market peg price. The peg section only ingests independent market price sources.
  5. Do not treat issuer-stated compliance as independent legal verification unless supported by regulator or register sources.
    Labels such as EMI Licensed or Credit Institution shown on the site reflect issuer materials at the time of last review. They do not assert legal status by eurostablecoins.xyz.
  6. Separate source type from claim content.
    Wherever practical, render the source class alongside the claim — in a fact row, a citation footnote or a status label — so readers can see which kind of source backs each statement.
  7. Prefer structured fact tables with source-class labels over repeated "according to..." prose.
    A fact table with explicit source-class labels reads more cleanly than prose that repeatedly hedges every sentence.
  8. Keep caveats specific and useful.
    Use precise notes such as "Latest data is YYYY-MM-DD (3 days stale)" rather than blanket disclaimers. If the limitation does not apply to the metric being shown, do not paste it in.
Worked example
BadAccording to Circle, Circle is licensed.
BetterCircle Internet Financial Europe SAS is registered as an Electronic Money Institution with the ACPR under number 17788.
Source class: Regulator-sourced fact if confirmed by the relevant regulator or public register; otherwise Issuer-document fact if only sourced from Circle’s own white paper.

Limitations

  • Supply data is snapshot-based; values are not real-time tick-by-tick.
  • Some chains may not be tracked for all coins if contract addresses are unavailable or APIs are unreachable.
  • Treasury/circulating distinction is only available for coins with publicly labeled treasury addresses.
  • The site does not currently publish exchange or DEX-pool listings, trading volume on exchanges, or DeFi-protocol usage.
  • Activity-history coverage (mint/burn, transfer volume) varies by coin and chain.
  • Holder counts are point-in-time; no backfilled holder history is published.
  • Bridge-locked supply may cause apparent double-counting when the same tokens exist on multiple chains.
  • Regulatory and issuer metadata is informational and should be checked against issuer and regulator sources.

Data sources include on-chain RPC providers, public block explorers, CoinGecko, DefiLlama, and project/issuer disclosures. No paid data partnerships. Informational data only. Not legal, financial, or investment advice.