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Story: Revolut Cuts USDT for Europe as Argentina’s Lemon Hits $9.3B in Stablecoin Volume

By Julie Binoche

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Argentina's Lemon Clocks $9.3 Billion. Take Argentina. Lemon, a crypto platform operating there, processed $9.

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OKX Europe Already Moved On. Erald Ghoos of OKX Europe put it bluntly: his platform stopped offering USDT to European users…

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Binance Smart Chain and Tron See More Users. Artemis Analytics data also shows a meaningful rise in daily active users on chains like Binance…

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Revolut is cutting USDT. Starting after August 31, the fintech giant will no longer offer the world's largest stablecoin to its European user base — a direct response to the EU's…

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It's a big move. Revolut has millions of European users, and USDT is by far the most traded stablecoin on the planet.

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Take Argentina. Lemon, a crypto platform operating there, processed $9.3 billion in 2025 — a 60% jump from the prior year. That's not traders speculating on price swings.

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And Argentina isn't alone. Across Latin America and other emerging markets, stablecoin usage keeps climbing.

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Erald Ghoos of OKX Europe put it bluntly: his platform stopped offering USDT to European users well before the MiCA deadline. Not months before — roughly two years before.

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Maksym Sakharov of WeFi made a similar point, saying regulation is changing how people access stablecoins rather than killing the appetite for them.

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That's basically the split MiCA has created. In Europe, the regulated platforms are pulling USDT off the shelf. Outside Europe, it's a different story entirely.

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That's probably not a coincidence. As MiCA squeezes availability through regulated European platforms, users who want dollar-denominated stablecoins may simply find other routes.

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Euro-denominated stablecoins are getting more attention too, at least among institutions. There's a logic to it — European users transacting in euros wouldn't need to worry about…

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Related: Coinbase Integrates Hyperliquid Perps into Base App, Excluding US, UK, and Canada Users

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So what does this all add up to? MiCA is real, its effects on European platforms are real, and Revolut's decision to delist USDT is a concrete example of regulation reshaping…

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