{"id":68807,"date":"2026-01-22T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68807"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:01:31","slug":"bitcoin-took-top-spot-in-2025-crypto-payments-litecoin-third-most-used-coingate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68807","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Took Top Spot In 2025 Crypto Payments, Litecoin Third-Most Used: CoinGate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new report from CoinGate shows Bitcoin took back the crown in cryptocurrency payments during 2025. Here\u2019s how the rest of the rankings looked.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoin Was The Most Used Cryptocurrency On CoinGate In 2025<\/h2>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CoinGatecom\/status\/2013919500635103323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">thread<\/a> on X, digital asset payments processor <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/litecoin-2nd-spot-crypto-shake-up-coingate-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">CoinGate<\/a> has shared insights from its latest report about transactions that occurred on the platform in 2025. In total, CoinGate processed 1.42 million cryptocurrency payments during the year, bringing its total lifetime payments beyond 7 million.<\/p>\n<p>As the below pie chart shows, Bitcoin accounted for the largest share of these payments.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G_LhHjLXUAE3xg6?format=jpg&amp;name=4096x4096\" alt=\"Bitcoin Vs Other Cryptos\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1620\"><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, Tether\u2019s USDT ranked the highest in payments on the platform, beating Bitcoin. With a share of 22.10% in 2025, however, the original cryptocurrency managed to reclaim the top spot over the stablecoin, which ended the year with a payments dominance of 16.60%.<\/p>\n<p>The third position was occupied by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/litecoin-crypto-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Litecoin<\/a>, which was involved in 14.40% of CoinGate payments. In Summer 2025, LTC even briefly became the second-best coin in the metric. Litecoin being preferred over some other popular assets could be due to the fact that its blockchain offers cheap and fast transactions as core features.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum and Tron, the fifth and sixth most used coins, both observed growth in payments dominance during 2025. \u201cTRX payment share grew from 9.1% to 11.5% and ETH from 8.9% to 10.6%,\u201d noted CoinGate.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of networks, the Bitcoin blockchain, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-first-us-bank-lightning-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Lightning Network<\/a>, was the most widely used on the platform in 2025, symmetrical with the token\u2019s payments share itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G_LhIELWUAELK31?format=jpg&amp;name=4096x4096\" alt=\"Bitcoin Vs Litecoin\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1620\"><\/p>\n<p>As displayed above, the second and third largest networks on CoinGate were Tron and Ethereum, occupying shares of 19.6% and 15.1%, respectively. These blockchains being above Litecoin despite their native tokens accounting for lower payment shares is because they also facilitate stablecoin transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The United States led in country rankings on the platform, with 24.37% of payments on the platform taking place in the nation. Germany and Netherlands rounded out the top three with shares of 6.83% and 5.16%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G_LhIm5WIAAdLzz?format=jpg&amp;name=4096x4096\" alt=\"Crypto CoinGate Country Stats\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1620\"><\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrencies saw significant usage on the platform in terms of being a payment mode, but that\u2019s not all they were used for. According to the report, merchants also increasingly chose to settle in digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, cryptocurrency settlements rose from 27% in 2024 to 37.5% in 2025. Stablecoins were the preferred option for merchants, being involved in 25.2% of all settlements, while Bitcoin occupied a smaller, but still notable, 9.7% share.<\/p>\n<p>Merchants also used cryptocurrencies to pay vendors, affiliates, partners, and contractors. \u201cThe most popular payouts were in USDC, Bitcoin, and Ethereum,\u201d said CoinGate. Stablecoins once again dominated here, occupying a payouts share of 87.8%.<\/p>\n<h2>BTC Price<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $88,300, down more than 9% over the last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/lLgmgKli\/\" alt=\"Bitcoin Price Chart\" width=\"1486\" height=\"915\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from CoinGate shows Bitcoin took back the crown in cryptocurrency payments during 2025. Here\u2019s how the rest of the rankings looked. Bitcoin Was The Most Used Cryptocurrency On CoinGate In 2025 In a new thread on X, digital asset payments processor CoinGate has shared insights from its latest report about transactions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-68807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}