This Week in Stablecoins: TradFi Wants Blockchain

Traditional finance is adopting blockchain infrastructure—programmable settlement networks, tokenized assets, and stablecoins as cash legs for institutional transactions—while explicitly rejecting decentralised finance's open governance and self-custody models. Banks, payment networks, and capital markets infrastructure are embedding blockchain into regulated, controlled environments for real-time settlement of securities, cross-border payments, and treasury operations.

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