Canada has been named as the foremost peer-to-peer crypto economy amongst the Group of 7 nations by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. This comes in light of an increase in remittance-siz
Canada has been named as the foremost peer-to-peer crypto economy amongst the Group of 7 nations by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.
This comes in light of an increase in remittance-sized transfers from Canada to India, China, and the Philippines. Those transfers went up by 141% year-over-year to $2.36 billion from July 2025 to June 2026.
The report is of particular importance to the millions of Canadians who send funds to family members overseas. This is a demographic that has turned to routing payments using cryptocurrencies as opposed to banks and wire services.
Canada sits on top for twomain reasons: the country has a vast and growing immigrant population and conventional money transfers have become more expensive. It also has the largest share of foreign-born residents (~23%) among the G7 nations.
In 2021 alone, over 8.3 million people wereregarded as landed immigrants or permanent residents, the largest proportion in the nation since Confederation.
Nearly one in four people in Canada are immigrants, the highest proportion of the population in more than 150 years.
“Remittance corridors to India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China are heavily used,” Morva Rohani, executive director of the Canadian Web3 Council, said in thereport.
India, China and the Philippinesreceived around $2.36 billion in transfers in approximately 3.56 million transactions. That is an average of $663 per transfer.Transfers from Canada to the Philippines peaked at $61.04 million across 73,564 transactions, a 28% increase in value and a 34.7% increase in the number of transactions.
The report covered P2P transfers in Bitcoin and stablecoins above the $10,000 mark. Head of research, Eric Jardine, stated that the firm made a conscious effort to ignore the smallest payments to avoid “omitting real remittance value.”
Based onthe report, dollar-pegged stablecoins have taken up a sizeable chunk of Canadian crypto trading. Stablecoins accounted for 44% of Canadian dollar-based order book volume in June, a 30% increase from the previous year.
Based on a World Bank estimate cited in the report, sending money from Canada costs an average of 6.7%, though the firm stated that low-cost blockchain settlement fees do not take into account currency conversion and cash-out costs.
Also, Canada’s domestic P2P activity has gone in the same direction as its temporary visa-holder population since mid-2021, even though the link remains correlational and not causal.
Canada’s increase in remittances is only one piece of a larger stablecoin puzzle. From June 2025 to June 2026, Global cross-border stablecoin transactions increased by 77.5% to $220.3 billion.
Canada sits in the top ten globally in the firm’s 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index. The index ranks countries on service flows, domestic peer-to-peer activity, cross-border flows, and on-chain balances.
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