Mani Mugabo

BD & Marketing @opentrade_io, stablecoins, crypto, philosophy, yield and other bits $USDC

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

The APR looks great. But who actually holds the assets?

What's the legal structure if they fail? What are the withdrawal terms under stress?

Most fintech teams building stablecoin yield products haven't fully stress-tested those questions. We broke down the five risks that matter most before integrating stablecoin yield into your existing product.

Read the full article below 👇

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Stablecoin adoption in Latin America has moved well beyond a single use case. The early wave was freelance and retail savers protecting purchasing power, followed by a re-plumbing of remittances, and then came enterprise payroll and treasury.

Global B2B stablecoin payment volumes surged 30x in 2 years, and the use case driving that growth now span the full spectrum of financial services activity across the region.

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ The best yield isn’t tied to one product. It's the one matched to each customer’s risk, return, and liquidity needs.

A neobank protecting consumer savings and an asset manager optimizing for return need different things from the same dollar.

OpenTrade gives fintechs the full range of yield sources to choose from, Money Market Funds, Bonds, ETFs, Private Credit, CLOs, Delta neutral strategies, Staking, DeFi LP, along with the tools to combine and tailor them into exactly the product their users need.

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Here is our weekly roundup of the most important developments in Digital Assets, Stablecoins, and RWAs 👇🧵

[Jason Brannigan 🪴 @Ja_Brann]

P.S. shout out to @opentrade_io, @BTC_Jeff and @BTC_Dave for bringing truly institutional grade assets onchain for everyone to benefit from, not to be used as exit liquidity.

[Kevin Mills @__kfm__]

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[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Most neobanks offering stablecoin yield face the same problem: no fixed rate without an investment team to manage the exposure, no daily liquidity without giving up the fixed rate entirely

So they either offer a variable rate that changes every quarter and frustrates users, or they lock balances in and watch adoption suffer

[Mani Mugabo @manimuga]

@MorganKrupetsky 🚀🚀🚀

[Morgan Krupetsky @MorganKrupetsky]

Payments are one of the clearest areas where blockchain infrastructure is moving from concept to production.

Today, we’re launching the Avalanche Payments Collective, bringing together 28 organizations building across stablecoins, settlement, treasury, FX, payouts, liquidity, compliance, asset management, and business payments on @avax.

Together, members of the Collective support payment flows across 150+ countries, 96 currencies, and approximately 22 billion payout endpoints across bank accounts, cards, and mobile wallets.

The key point is that modern payments require more than faster rails. Companies need liquidity, settlement infrastructure, treasury tools, compliance capabilities, FX, stablecoins, and payout networks that can work together. And that’s what this ecosystem has been designed to support.

For me, this is especially exciting because it sits directly at the intersection of payments, treasury, stablecoins, and institutional finance, the areas where I've always believed blockchain can deliver some of its most immediate, practical value.

Proud to support the teams building this on Avalanche.

For more on the Avalanche Payments Collective, check out https://t.co/cV6xqfbjev

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

OpenTrade is proud to join the Avalanche Payments Collective as a Founding Member.

The Collective brings together payments leaders, fintechs, stablecoin issuers, and infrastructure providers building on @avax to help shape the future of how value moves around the world.

We build yield infrastructure that brings institutional-grade yield to stablecoins, from custom vaults for platforms to permissionless on-chain access.

See what we're building: https://t.co/MZ8snHv9Aq

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Some clients need yield built around their requirements, and a pre-made vault won't get them there

Curation+ is OpenTrade's bespoke vault design and treasury management service: every vault is scoped to the client's own collateral, risk, and liquidity needs

[Mani Mugabo @manimuga]

Stablecoin Yield infrastructure on @avax

@opentrade_io

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

- @avax RWA Ecosystem. 🔺

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

World Cup fever isn't the only thing generating heat in Mexico City this week.

Day 1 of the @Bitso Stablecoin Conference LATAM is done, and stablecoins- how they move, where they yield, and what they unlock for platforms operating in emerging markets dominated the conversations.

Felipe Galvis, OpenTrade's SVP of Business Development and Sales, is on the ground at the World Trade Center through June 16th. If you're building in this space and yield on idle stablecoin balances isn't already on your agenda, it should be.

Platforms like @littioco, @belo_app, and Plenti are already winning new customers and increasing customer LTV by offering yield-generating products powered by OpenTrade's infrastructure. We'd be happy to walk you through what that looks like for your platform.

If you're on the ground, feel free to reach out to Felipe directly. Otherwise, get in touch below 👇

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ OpenTrade and @SierraIsMoney took #1 and #2 for 7-day TVL growth on @stablewatchHQ this week.

XHYC, one of OpenTrade's yield vaults, grew TVL by 101.4% in seven days. SIERRA, a Liquid Yield Token that uses OpenTrade vaults to earn yield for its holders, grew 15.9% over the same period.

Between them, they represent two distinct use cases for the same underlying infrastructure: institutional B2B yield for fintechs and treasury teams, and permissionless on-chain yield for retail holders.

The yieldcoin category is growing fast, and the products that are capturing that growth are the ones built on infrastructure that institutions already trust.

[Dave Sutter @BTC_Dave]

This episode was a bit outside my area of expertise, but it was probably one of the most fun.

The largest IPO in history was Alibaba in 2014, reaching $25B.

SpaceX just raised three times that at $75B. OpenAI and Anthropic are also planning to IPO this year, representing an estimated $135B in newly issued shares. If successful, these three companies will change the course of history.

What's the bear/bull case for each? Are these valuations justified? What can go wrong, and what happens if it does go wrong? Is this all just a sci-fi fantasy? How will domestic politics impact the trajectory of these companies and their peers?

We answer these questions and more in the most recent episode of @Money_Moves_Pod with @sjolewis and @eppy314.

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Here is our weekly roundup of the most important developments in Digital Assets, Stablecoins, and RWAs🧵👇

[Mani Mugabo @manimuga]

@ZeusRWA @RWAFoundation_ I think it all depends on what’s being built on those chains and their value in the real world.

[OpenTrade @opentrade_io]

1/ Sending $200 from Brazil to Bolivia can cost up to $103 and take up to 5 business days

Stablecoin foreign exchange (FX) corridors settle the same transfer in minutes at a fraction of the cost. Here's what the difference between stablecoin FX and traditional banking looks like in practice 👇

[Sierra @SierraIsMoney]

1/ Most yield tokens work by sending you more tokens as yield Your balance goes up. The price stays the same. SIERRA does the opposite, and it matters more than it sounds 🧵

[Mani Mugabo @manimuga]

@RWAFoundation_ Access