Remittances funded with stablecoins cost 84% less than traditional money transfers, according to data from Borderless.xyz. Cointelegraph reported the findings on Oct 16, 2026, in an article written by Sam Bourgi. The data covers cross-border business payments, and the report says the savings were largest in emerging markets.
Cost was not the only gap the report measured. It also found that stablecoin transfers settled faster than international bank wires. Cointelegraph presented the results as support for payments being one of the main uses of digital dollars as payment activity increases.
Some details are missing from the material available here. It does not say which countries or payment corridors were studied, which stablecoins were used, how fees were calculated, what time period the data covers, or how much faster settlement was. Without those details, the 84% figure cannot be broken down further.
For someone already holding a perpetual futures position, this changes nothing directly. The report is about payment costs, not derivatives trading. It does not mention Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, and it says nothing about funding rates, trading fees or perp market liquidity, so the cost of holding an open position is the same as it was before the report came out.
Source: cointelegraph — Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers, report finds