A new report from Bitget Wallet, Everyday Finance Onchain: Key Trends Shaping 2026, analyzes the main structural trends shaping the future of finance. The research suggests that user activity is moving from speculative trading toward functional applications such as payments, savings, and asset management. According to the findings, digital wallets are becoming a primary interface for these recurring onchain financial activities.
The report describes wallets evolving into financial operating systems by consolidating functions once split across exchanges, banks, and standalone apps. Payments, trading, yield, and privacy are increasingly handled through a single, user-owned interface as crypto begins to function more like everyday money. In 2025, stablecoin onchain transaction volume reached roughly $33 trillion, while global stablecoin supply grew more than 50% to over $300 billion. Spending across major crypto card programs rose 525% year on year, underscoring a shift toward real-world financial use. Stablecoins are increasingly embedded into cards, local payment systems, and hybrid fiat-facing rails, operating as largely invisible settlement infrastructure.
Beyond payments, the report highlights infrastructure shifts reshaping everyday onchain finance. AI agents are beginning to transact autonomously using machine-native payment protocols, creating new forms of economic activity that wallets must fund, monitor, and control. Trust models are evolving alongside this shift, with Know Your Agent (KYA) emerging as a framework for managing delegated permissions and accountability. As financial behavior becomes more persistent, wallets are also starting to function as a behavioral credit layer, translating long-term onchain activity into reduced friction and differentiated access, while privacy becomes essential infrastructure for scale and retention.
Markets continue to develop within this broader everyday finance context. Real-world assets are moving beyond static tokenization toward perpetual and synthetic exposure as oracle networks and onchain derivatives mature. Decentralized perpetual markets processed trillions of dollars in notional volume in 2025, narrowing the gap with centralized venues and driving more trading activity directly into wallets, which provide routing, context, and portfolio management rather than isolated protocol access. Prediction markets also expanded rapidly, with annual volumes surpassing $40 billion, converting real-world events into tradable probability signals.
„The boundary between crypto and everyday finance is gradually dissolved,“ said Jamie Elkaleh, CMO of Bitget Wallet. „From AI payments to realtime signals, the onchain economy is no longer a side bet — it is the new foundation for financial freedom, accessible to everyone, everywhere.”
About Bitget Wallet
Bitget Wallet is an everyday finance app designed to make crypto simple, secure, and usable in daily life. Serving more than 90 million users worldwide, it offers an all-in-one platform to send, spend, earn, and trade crypto and stablecoins through blockchain-based infrastructure. With global on- and off-ramps, the app enables faster and borderless onchain finance, supported by advanced security and a $700 million user protection fund. Bitget Wallet operates as a fully self-custodial wallet and does not hold or control user funds, private keys, or user data. Transactions are signed by users and executed on public blockchains.
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This report offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of on-chain finance. I’m intrigued by the predicted roles of decentralized wallets in user engagement. How do you see this impact on gaming economies, particularly with platforms like top games?