Yield-bearing crypto assets poised to grow after regulatory clarity, report says

Reuters

Wed, November 12, 2025 astatine 8:36 AM CST 1 min read

(Reuters) -Yield-bearing assets successful the cryptocurrency marketplace are expected to turn rapidly arsenic organization adoption ​accelerates aft the transition of the GENIUS Act, ‌blockchain steadfast RedStone said successful a study connected Wednesday.

CONTEXT

The U.S. has ‌enacted the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin instrumentality that creates a regulatory model for dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies, sparking a surge successful interest-bearing stablecoins.

However, organization investors person remained cautious contempt tokenization ⁠making transactions cheaper and ‌faster, mostly owed to the lack of wide hazard metrics.

WHY IT MATTERS

Unlike accepted finance, wherever ‍capital routinely earns interest, astir crypto assets bash not supply immoderate returns beyond their emergence successful prices. Yield-bearing crypto assets could ​unlock important funds and promote large fiscal firms to participate ‌the abstraction arsenic regulations improve.

BY THE NUMBERS

The marketplace size of interest-bearing stablecoins has jumped 300% implicit the past twelvemonth arsenic caller projects look to vie with Tether and Circle, the study said.

"Yield-generating assets marque up conscionable 8% ⁠to 11% of crypto, compared ​to 55% to 65% ​of accepted finance," underscoring however underdeveloped crypto's output infrastructure remains, the study said.

While crypto'‍s full marketplace ⁠capitalization was astir $3.55 trillion, lone $300 cardinal to $400 cardinal of those assets generated immoderate yield, ⁠the study added.

This spread is crypto's "greatest opportunity," ‌the study said.

(Reporting by Prakhar Srivastava successful Bengaluru;‌ Editing by Leroy Leo)