Visa launches stablecoin platform anchored on OUSD
The world's largest payments network is building its own stablecoin rail for banks and merchants, and it is picking an open-standard rival to USDC as the anchor asset on day one.
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The world's largest payments network is building its own stablecoin rail for banks and merchants, and it is picking an open-standard rival to USDC as the anchor asset on day one.
The headline vote reads upbeat, yet Paxos's 2024 run at the same model landed at ~$3B in supply against USDC's $73B. The partner list, not the policy, is where this story actually lives.
Public disclosure named them as members of Open Standard's won-pegged stablecoin project before any formal talks took place, two of Korea's largest names told local media.
Samsung, Dunamu and other Korean names flagged as founding members say Open Standard never held formal talks, exposing a comms gap days before launch.
Coinbase helped turn USDC into crypto's default dollar, but a 140-firm consortium promising zero-fee minting and yield to distributors gives its biggest partner a stake in a rival model exactly when…
Allaire's critique lands as a growing roster of banks and payment giants chase a single shared token, the exact structure he says has a dismal track record at achieving product-market fit.
The 140-company Open USD consortium, with Coinbase as a launch partner, looks like the first credible threat to USDC's distribution moat, and Circle still rates a $190 target.
The 140-company list (Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY, Coinbase, Google, Shopify, Solana) signals payments-rail buy-in, but the structural hook is consortium governance with shared reserve…
The launch lineup pulls in payments rails, an exchange, banks and tech firms under a single stablecoin that distributes reserve revenue back to members, a structural break from Tether's and Circle's…
The consortium reads as a TradFi validation bid for stablecoin rails rather than a competing token launch: the brand names signing on carry the regulated payments and asset-management flow the sector…
A stablecoin consortium anchored by Visa, Stripe and BlackRock signals the first serious push to make a tokenised dollar the default settlement layer for both crypto and traditional finance.