August 2026 Crypto Payment Statistics: Bitcoin Rails Gain, Monero Leads
This report is part of our monthly crypto merchant data series. See all NanoGPT crypto payment statistics.
August moved more crypto deposit volume toward Bitcoin. Monero remained the largest single payment method, while stablecoins held close to their July share.
Monero Remains First
Monero accounted for 38.55% of August's crypto deposit volume, up 2.13 percentage points from July's 36.42%.
Bitcoin Rails Reach 26.90%
On-chain Bitcoin rose from 20.44% in July to 24.92% in August. Lightning fell from 2.29% to 1.99%.
Combined, BTC + Lightning reached 26.90%, up 4.17 percentage points from July. The gain came entirely from on-chain Bitcoin.
Stablecoins Hold Their Share
USDT rose from 11.15% to 12.01%, while USDC fell from 7.07% to 6.38%.
Together, USDT + USDC represented 18.39% of August's crypto deposit volume, almost unchanged from July's 18.22%. PYUSD also appeared for the first time at 0.01%.
Nano, Bitcoin Cash, And Ethereum Decline
Nano fell from 5.48% in July to 4.36% in August. Bitcoin Cash moved from 4.45% to 3.15%, while Ethereum fell from 5.02% to 2.60%.
Solana was nearly unchanged at 1.90%, compared with 1.74% in July. Litecoin reached 1.58%, and TON and Zcash each remained below 1%.
The Full Data
These percentages cover completed crypto deposits made from August 1 through August 31, measured by credited USD value. Stripe and other USD deposits are excluded.
- XMR: 38.55%
- BTC: 24.92%
- USDT: 12.01%
- USDC: 6.38%
- XNO: 4.36%
- BCH: 3.15%
- ETH: 2.60%
- BTC-LN: 1.99%
- SOL: 1.90%
- LTC: 1.58%
- TON: 0.67%
- ZEC: 0.65%
- TRX: 0.44%
- DASH: 0.44%
- DOGE: 0.10%
- LTC-MWEB: 0.08%
- KAS: 0.06%
- POL: 0.06%
- VVV: 0.04%
- PYUSD: 0.01%
- ZANO: 0.01%
- FUSD: 0.01%
- BNB: less than 0.01%
Each asset is rounded independently to two decimal places. The crypto payment statistics archive contains every monthly report since November 2024.
