Consortium of more than 140 institutions developing the proposed Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin project.
Pi Network's October 8 plan to explore Open USD payments and Pioneer rewards specifies no requirement to buy or hold PI, a coin now near $0.0835. Dollar payments could grow activity on Pi while demand for the coin waits on reward and settlement terms the team has not published.
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Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said Oct. 9 that cross-border payments are stablecoins' strongest use, citing OUSD, a coin Visa and Stripe also back. His biggest stablecoin deal, up to $1.8 billion for BVNK per Crypto Briefing, buys tools to hold and convert whichever coin businesses pick.
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Visa and Mastercard took equal stakes with Coinbase, Stripe and Shopify in OUSD, a stablecoin the five founders back with over $1 billion. Its zero fees cover minting and redemption only, and the networks also back rival stablecoins, so the stake is one bet among several.
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Pi Network requires node operators to upgrade by October 13, before Protocol 28 is scheduled to activate on October 16. Its stablecoin partnership with Open Standard has no Mainnet integration date, so the upgrade is the near-term event PI holders can check.
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Stripe plans stablecoin card programs in more than 100 countries by year-end and has put Privy chief Henri Stern in charge of its stablecoin and crypto work. Stern is selling the coins as one more option inside the card products Stripe's fiat customers already use.
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Open USD launched with Stripe distribution and $468 million of backed supply, about 0.15% of a dollar-stablecoin market led by USDT and USDC. Its share grows only if Stripe customers move payments and treasury balances into it beyond the liquidity its founders seeded.
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Coinbase opened OUSD transfers on four chains on October 1, a day after the stablecoin it co-owns went live. Because Coinbase is one of its owners, the speed mostly shows Coinbase's own incentive; the case against USDT and USDC depends on venues and businesses that hold no equity.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Open Standard's OUSD stablecoin launched Sept. 30 with over $1 billion from Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa. Because partners collect most of the reserve yield, the payment firms that distribute stablecoins now have a revenue reason to push this one.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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