Stable Tape Daily Tape
Daily Tape: 2026-07-04
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Frozen at 12:00 UTC on 2026-07-04. This record does not change. Selected by fixed public rules, not by an editor or AI — a market observation, not a trading signal.
$540M expanded · $502M contracted · +$37.7M net
Why this Signal? Offsetting movement — Net supply barely moved, but large opposing issuer movements offset — gross flow of $1.04B against a $37.7M net change.
It was the highest-priority eligible Signal under the published rules.
How the Signal is selected →How this Signal was selected
Stored selection rules v2Winning family: Offsetting movement. This was the highest-priority eligible Signal for the record.
- 1Record validityOnly a complete canonical Daily Tape record can produce a market Signal.
- 2DDD benchmark or milestoneA material DDD move, rounded 1-in-N milestone, or genuinely denominator-driven M2 update.
- 3Archive extremeThe largest same-direction daily move in a sufficiently deep canonical archive.
- 4Sequence reversalA material move reverses or interrupts the immediately preceding run in the other direction.
- 5Weekly extremeThe largest daily move in the latest complete seven-record window.
- 6Large daily movementA net daily supply move clears the published large-movement floor.
- 7Multi-day streakSupply keeps moving in the same direction across contiguous canonical days.
- 8Weekly supply trendThe seven-record supply level continues a material directional trend.
- 9Quiet market with weekly contextA quiet day is placed in the context of the complete seven-record trend.
- 10Issuer or chain trendA clean endpoint-confirmed issuer or chain move explains the weekly change.
- 11Offsetting movementLarge opposing supply changes leave the net daily move close to flat.Selected for this record
- 12Broad issuer movementMovement is broad across major issuers rather than concentrated in one name.
- 13Quiet readingSupply remains inside the published flat threshold after stronger families are tested.
- 14Net supply movementThe plain directional daily movement when no more specific family is eligible.
Stable Tape tests each canonical record against these published families in order. Eligibility includes materiality, repetition, attribution and data-quality guards. View exact thresholds and wording rules →
- DDD DDD held at 1.35%, equivalent to 1 in 74 U.S. dollars.
- Supply Expansion and contraction nearly offset.
- Issuer No dominant issuer driver.
- Chain No dominant chain driver.
Signal wording uses rounded figures; the tables above show the exact frozen values.
Selection rules v2 · changes apply only to future records
Benchmark
Source basis
Movement totals
Top moves
| Top expansion | USDT · Tether (+$124.0M) |
| Top contraction | USDC · Circle (-$218.8M) |
Drivers
| Issuer driver | Circle (-$218.8M) |
| Chain driver | Solana (-$260.4M) |
| Currency driver | US Dollar (+$35.8M) |
Snapshot basis
| Current snapshot | 2026-07-04T12:31:24.567Z |
| Previous snapshot | 2026-07-03T12:44:54.010Z |
| Provenance | owned-snapshots |
| Record hash (SHA-256) | 092f373bc044e2ff… |
Citation
Stable Tape Daily Record, 2026-07-04: DDD was 1 in 74 dollars, based on $310.29B USD stablecoin supply and $23.05T U.S. M2 as of 2026-05-01. Source: DeFiLlama (stablecoin supply) + FRED M2SL (U.S. M2). https://stabletape.com/tape/2026-07-04
Methodology
DDD = USD stablecoin supply ÷ U.S. M2. Numerator: total USD-denominated stablecoin supply (source: DeFiLlama). Denominator: U.S. M2 money stock, seasonally adjusted (source: FRED M2SL), typically lagged 4–6 weeks from the record date.
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