World Liberty launches $4B USD1 on Canton Network

World Liberty Financial has launched its $4.05 billion USD1 stablecoin natively on the Canton Network, giving institutions a dollar-based settlement asset for tokenized securities and other real-world assets. Summary USD1 can settle tokenized assets through Canton’s privacy and permissioning controls. Institutions can use the stablecoin for collateral, lending, issuance, redemptions, and cross-border payments. DeFiLlama ranks the $4.05 billion USD1 as the sixth-largest stablecoin. World Liberty’s proposed U.S. trust bank still requires final OCC authorization. USD1 gives Canton transactions a cash settlement option World Liberty Financial said in an Aug. 25 announcement that USD1 is now issued directly on Canton rather than arriving through a bridge from another blockchain. Native issuance lets an institution exchange USD1 and a tokenized asset as parts of the same transaction. According to the announcement, Canton’s system synchronizes both transfers so the cash and asset can settle together, reducing the risk that one side completes while the other remains outstanding. Canton applies privacy and permission controls to transactions conducted on its public blockchain. The network s...