SoFi tie-up shows stablecoins can provide alternative blockchain settlement rail
SoFi dives deeper into payments as it moves its entire card program to blockchain-based settlement using its SoFiUSD stablecoin, with more than $25 billion in expected annualized volume.
SoFi dives deeper into payments as it moves its entire card program to blockchain-based settlement using its SoFiUSD stablecoin, with more than $25 billion in expected annualized volume.
Stablecoins are increasingly being used to settle payments behind existing card networks, allowing money to move around the clock without changing how consumers pay.
But rather than cutting Visa, Mastercard or banks out of the process, the technology is beginning to replace a narrower piece of the payments stack: the traditional banking rails used to settle obligations between participants.
“I wouldn’t call it disintermediation at this stage,” Martins Benkitis, co-founder and CEO of emerging-markets liquidity provider Gravity Team, told Cointelegraph.