🌍 Stablecoins Just Entered a New Era
The stablecoin race is no longer about who has the biggest market cap - it's about who controls distribution.
Open USD (OUSD) has officially entered the market with support from 140+ global partners, including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google, Shopify, and Stellar $XLM . Instead of keeping most of the interest earned from reserves, Open USD plans to return the majority of that revenue to the businesses that actually drive adoption.
That changes the incentive structure completely.
Unlike traditional models, OUSD promises:
✅ Zero mint and redemption fees
✅ Revenue sharing with ecosystem partners
✅ Governance shared across the consortium instead of a single issuer
The market reacted immediately. Circle's stock dropped sharply as investors recognized that the battle is shifting from market capitalization to distribution power.
For Stellar $XLM , joining Open USD as a launch partner is another major institutional milestone. It places the network alongside some of the world's largest payment companies and financial institutions as next-generation stablecoin infrastructure begins to take shape.
The winners of the next cycle may not simply be the biggest stablecoins - but the networks that become the foundation for global payments.
⭐️ $XLM continues to strengthen its position at the center of institutional blockchain infrastructure.
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Trump signs 2 Quantum EOs
✅ quantum keys and cryptography (QKD) ✅ “harvesting quantum phenomena”
For “scientifically relevant quantum computing”
“the impacts of it will be tremendous”
🩷“It’s about medical breakthroughs, nuclear fusion, material science…”
POST QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY — that’s what we are signing today
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This is needed for PQ Era and Stellar wallets
#Stellar #XLM #QSI
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A quantum migration shouldn't force you to re-issue tokenized assets or re-paper every system that references your accounts.
On Stellar, the account will keep its address and history. Only the signing key changes while the holdings and integrations around them stay put.
How that's possible:
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Denelle Dixon comes on right after Rob's "nothing burger" take on the DTCC/Stellar announcement.
She makes the case for why Stellar isn't just one of many chains and why the DTCC partnership is based on seven years of institutional infrastructure work.
Activity on the Stellar network is shifting from issuance to real usage, with the numbers to prove it.
In Q1 of 2026, the convergence of tokenized assets and multicurrency stablecoins propelled payment volume to a record $5.5 billion, a 71% increase year-on-year.
DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation announced today plans to enable the tokenization of DTC‑custodied assets on the @StellarOrg network. This collaboration advances DTCC’s multi chain strategy and expands how traditional assets move across digital ecosystems.
DTC‑tokenized assets are expected to be made available on the Stellar network in the first half of 2027, supporting the evolution of a more open, interoperable, and efficient financial ecosystem.
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“The entire global trading system until Richard Nixon took us off was tied to gold.”
- Scott Bessent
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The departure from gold by Richard Nixon was supposed to be temporary.
That was 55 years ago.
Stellar is fast, cheap, and secure. And builders are already using Stellar to bring institutional-grade, yield-bearing assets onchain.
@tomerweller spoke at Solana Snapshot this afternoon about what makes Stellar the ideal base layer for onchain finance.
@datruthhuts dropped some hard hitting facts about Meta X Stellar connection but…
Now it’s time dig a little deeper into these connections to get good thorough understanding of what is happening. $XLM
🚨 BOMBSHELL CONNECTION DISCOVERED: #Meta and #Stellar's secret link that could revolutionize digital payments for BILLIONS 💫
The dots I've just connected will blow your mind... 🧵👇
The United States Treasury secretary said this morning that Bretton Woods institutions must reorient.
This is a massive signal.
He added:
“The IMF's mission is to promote international monetary cooperation, facilitate the balanced growth of international trade, encourage economic growth, and discourage harmful policies like competitive exchange rate depreciation."
In other words,
This fabric of the system is changing.
People are sleeping on the news out of Russia.
The deputy finance minister of Russia essentially said that the country is working on gold-backed digital assets for international settlements.
"Digital financial assets tied to gold"
Where is the Western media?
VTAP! Nothing to see here 👀 just a small payment company called Visa using tokens for payments… sooo Stellar! #stellar#blockchain
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