Stablecoins have been storytelling for years, but 2026 will truly be different. Institutions are shifting from spectators to all-in participants, and large-scale deployment of stablecoin settlement infrastructure has become inevitable.

A project has specifically built a Layer 1 for this purpose, using sub-second deterministic confirmation, EVM compatibility, and Bitcoin anchoring security as core features, targeting payment and financial institutions. It sounds like a PPT presentation, but the data speaks for itself: it has already become a second-tier player in the on-chain lending market, leading in lending ratios within the stablecoin sector.

What’s even more interesting is the richness of ecological applications. Aave V3 is running on this, indicating that institutional lending needs have been validated; DEXs, arbitrage tools, euro stablecoin vaults, and asset management protocols are all in place. There are also dedicated solutions for enterprise payments serving over 500 institutional clients; another project is enabling instant payments for global merchants; even a single stablecoin liquidity pool can accumulate over 200 million in scale. Behind these numbers are real settlement demands.

Why can this direction succeed? The key points are threefold: Bitcoin anchoring provides neutrality, sub-second confirmation solves payment latency issues, and EVM compatibility allows existing applications to migrate at zero cost. Compared to traditional high-fee, slow solutions, this offers a completely different competitive edge. Payment companies can issue cards, asset managers can run treasuries, exchanges can do deep integrations—all finding their suitable positions.

More than 30 top partners have already deployed, and institutional TVL growth may accelerate faster than expected. If 2026 truly becomes the explosive year for trillion-dollar payments and financial market stablecoin adoption, then whoever masters the underlying infrastructure’s deep liquidity and real settlement network will benefit most from this wave.