Well now, thank you kindly for coming along. In this world, there are the lucky and the unlucky—and Kiroku, the fellow in today’s tale, was born unlucky, through and through.
Kiroku: “Jinbei, I’m really down on my luck, you know. Anyway, I hear Polygon has opened up shop in a new place.”
Jinbei: “On October 7, 2026, Polygon Labs announced that its own payments platform, the ‘Polygon Open Money Stack,’ would support TRON. If you only read the headline, you’d think it was just Polygon expanding its business. But the truth is the opposite. It’s the other side that’s come to build a bridge to TRON, the world’s largest digital dollar economy.”
Jubei: "Open Money Stack is a 'complete set of parts to move money' that we rolled out in January 2026. Through business totaling more than $250 million, by bringing in Coinme (in the process of acquisition)—which holds U.S. remittance licenses—and the wallet infrastructure Sequence, we bundled everything: the entrances and exits for dollars, the wallets, even the routing guidance between chains—all into a single counter."
Kikiroku: "So what comes to TRON?"
Jubei: "There are three things. First is bringing in and taking out regulated dollars. 'Polygon Ramps,' equipped with remittance business licenses and compliance frameworks for 48 U.S. states, directly connects TRON services with U.S. bank accounts. You can receive money via bank transfer, debit cards, and cash from retail store counters as well. Second is programmable accounts. Keeping the same connection, the company can hand out and manage TRON wallets. Third is cross-chain movement. Between TRON and EVM chains like Polygon Chain, USDT moves as a single flow. Bridges and conversions get handled behind the scenes."
Kikiroku: "What's so great about that?"
Jubei: "Until now, for remittance businesses, you had to gather—by yourself—four contracts, four screenings, and four sets of specifications: licenses, sponsoring banks, wallets, and routing. But with one connection, it's all done at once. If you pay dollars into the system in the U.S., USDT arrives in the TRON wallet of the family on the other side. The reverse works too. Going and coming are all handled through a single pipeline."
Jubei: "Numbers tell the story of differences in strength. On TRON, USDT exceeds $94 billion, cumulative remittance volume exceeds $30 trillion, and total accounts exceed 407 million. On the other hand, Polygon's settlement processing amount— as of September 21—exceeds $3 trillion. Mark Boiron, the CEO, says their aim is to capture one of the deepest USDT liquidity flows. And he says it openly. Not connecting to the biggest USDT pond would be missing the finishing touch—the point of the dragon's eyes."
Kikiroku: "A canal—transit?"
Jubei: "It's like drawing a dragon's picture and forgetting to put the eyes in."
Jubei: "Here comes an old tale. This month, 201 years ago—October 26, 1825—the Erie Canal opened in New York, in the United States. It was a man-made waterway—363 miles long, about 584 kilometers—linking Buffalo on the shores of Lake Erie with Albany along the Hudson River."
Kikiroku: "It's a very long trench, isn't it?"
Jubei: "Don't say 'rundown' like that. Back then, around the Great Lakes, there was an abundance of grain and timber. But to ship to the Atlantic coast, you had to cross the Appalachian Mountains by wagon. Freight was $100 per ton. There was wealth, but no exit. Liquidity was being trapped. That's what liquidity is—well, water, and in plain terms, the flow of money."
Jubei: "The canal made it a ten-dollar-per-ton affair. The $7.1 million construction cost was recovered in only nine years from tolls, and fifteen years after opening, the port of New York became the busiest port in the entire U.S.—surpassing the combined total of Boston, Baltimore, and New Orleans. The highlight is its 83 locks. It overcomes a vertical difference of about 170 meters by matching the water levels step by step. The boatmen don't need to know hydraulics. That's exactly the role of Open Money Stack. Regulations by state and specifications by chain—the behind-the-scenes locks absorb that water-level difference, and the company just has to send the ship."
Jubei: "On the day the canal opened, Governor DeWitt Clinton filled two casks with water from Lake Erie, set sail, and poured it into the Atlantic in New York. That is the 'Water Wedding.' Now, the story this time is to pour the lake water of USDT on TRON into an ocean called the 'U.S. banking system'—a 21st-century water wedding."
Jubei: "A canal is dug where there is water. The Great Lakes didn't go looking for a canal. There was water, so the canal came from that direction. TRON is the same. The era of competing which chain is better is about to end, and the era has begun in which the settlement infrastructure itself comes and links up to the greatest liquidity."
Jubei: "The road changes, but the water source doesn't. The glory of the Erie Canal was eventually taken over by the railways. Still, the Great Lakes economic sphere kept thriving, and it helped grow Chicago and Detroit. Whether by canal or railway, the destination for cargo is always somewhere with water. And with this new connection, too—at the first stage, the corresponding assets, markets, and settlement functions are said to expand one after another. TRON became the water source that draws in the world's settlement network."
Kikiroku: "Ha! Now I get it. And I finally understand why I've been unlucky for so long."
Jubei: "Why?"
Kikiroku: "My wallet has never had so much as a drop of water. So 'luck' shouldn't be coming my way."
Well, the lake water of $94 billion has now flowed out into the Atlantic. Whoever dug the waterways— the name of the water source is TRON, that is.