Research · Stablecoin issuers
Published Sept 2026
AI Visibility Attestation
We asked an AI assistant the kind of questions a treasury lead or payments buyer actually types when comparing stablecoins - not branded searches. Two of the five largest issuers by supply didn't appear at all.
Measured
Top 5 Buyer-intent Prompts
Tested across the largest stablecoin issuers by circulating supply.
01 · Method
Prompts run
- 01Most trusted stablecoins for payments
- 02Which stablecoin has the best regulatory compliance
- 03Best stablecoin for cross-border remittances
- 04Stablecoins backed by fully audited, transparent reserves
- 05Top stablecoins for institutional settlement
Classification follows the Owner / Emerging Leader / Unsettled framework, extending Semrush's finding that roughly 15% of high-demand topics have a clear AI-recognized owner. Initial pass: Claude (Anthropic). Verification across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini is in progress - results will update as each engine is checked.
02 · Results
Who owns the answer?
Ranked by circulating supply, May 2026 (DeFiLlama)
Tether USDT
~$185B
Owner
5 of 5 prompts - leads on liquidity and payments
Circle USDC
~$78B
Owner
5 of 5 prompts - leads on compliance and reserve transparency
Sky DAI / USDS
~$9B
Emerging Leader
3 of 5 prompts - positioned as the decentralized alternative, rarely first
Ethena USDe
~$4B
Unsettled
1 of 5 prompts - only surfaces when yield-bearing stablecoins are named directly
Ripple RLUSD
~$1.6B
Unsettled
0 of 5 prompts - absent even on regulatory-compliance and institutional-settlement queries
The gap isn't obscurity - both flagged issuers are regulated, well-capitalized, and built specifically for the institutional and compliance use cases these prompts describe. The absence is an AI-visibility problem, not a fundamentals problem.
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Get an AEO Growth PlanMethodology, supply figures, and full prompt logs are available on request. This attestation reflects a point-in-time check and will be re-run periodically as the stablecoin landscape shifts.