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. If you're building treasury, payments, or settlement tools for enterprises, your infrastructure just became compatible with blockchain—and the plumbing is being installed by banks and Visa, not crypto natives. ERP vendors and processors embedding blockchain into existing workflows now own the real competitive layer; crypto-first builders do not.