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Polygon's<\/a> surging USDT0<\/a> holder count masks shrinking balances and suspected scam activity amid its broader push into stablecoin payments.<\/p>\n

An Oct. 7 investigation by blockchain analytics firm Bitquery<\/a> found that addresses matching scam patterns accounted for 58% of the net growth in Polygon's USDT0 holders since August 2025, raising questions about the quality of adoption figures promoted by the network.<\/p>\n

The findings challenge Polygon's recent celebration of surpassing<\/a> 8.1 million USDT0 holder addresses, the highest among blockchains included in a Token Terminal comparison.<\/p>\n

According to Bitquery, roughly 998,000 of the 1.71 million addresses added over the preceding 13 months exhibited patterns associated with address-poisoning scams.<\/a><\/p>\n

The growth came as USDT0 supply on Polygon fell 41%, from $1.35 billion to $798 million. Addresses holding at least $10 also declined 42%, from approximately 1.24 million to 720,000.<\/p>\n

Bitquery found that 48% of holders controlled less than one cent, while 65% had neither sent nor received the token during the preceding year.<\/p>\n

The investigation also identified approximately 1.42 million addresses matching an address-poisoning<\/a> pattern, with sample-based verification supporting an estimate of 1.1 million scam look-alikes.<\/p>\n

\"Bitquery<\/a><\/p>\n

Address poisoning involves scammers creating wallet addresses that resemble legitimate payment destinations and sending tiny transactions to potential victims, hoping they mistakenly copy the fraudulent addresses when transferring funds.<\/p>\n

These addresses can retain fractional token balances, allowing them to count as holders. Bitquery cautioned that its classification was probabilistic and did not quantify losses from the suspected scams.<\/p>\n

The findings reflect Polygon's August 2025 upgrade<\/a> from bridged USDT to native USDT0, which preserved existing token balances and contract addresses. About 67% of current holders first received Tether before the upgrade.<\/p>\n

Polygon's payments ambitions face a measurement problem<\/h2>\n

The findings arrive as Polygon increasingly positions itself as a stablecoin payments network, competing for payment processors, institutional liquidity and cross-border settlement activity.<\/p>\n

That strategy has coincided with significant transaction growth.<\/p>\n

Blockchain analytics platform Growthepie recently reported<\/a> that Polygon processed more wallet-to-wallet stablecoin transactions<\/a> over seven days than Ethereum's mainnet, and more than Base and Arbitrum combined.<\/p>\n\n

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The metric excludes decentralized finance contracts, although transfers associated with automated activity, including address poisoning, could still contribute to transaction counts.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DeFiLlama data<\/a> shows Polygon holds approximately $2.93 billion in stablecoins, with Circle's USDC<\/a> accounting for $1.62 billion, or 55.29% of the market.<\/p>\n

Tether remains the network's second-largest stablecoin, with approximately $795 million in supply, representing about 27% of the total.<\/p>\n

The figures suggest that Polygon's broader stablecoin activity has developed differently from Tether's shrinking capital base, although Bitquery's findings do not establish whether genuine USDT0 payment volumes have declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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