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🚨 A HISTORIC STEP IN THE GLOBAL FINANCE AND WEB3 ECOSYSTEM: Pi Network joins the Open USD consortium! 🌐
A momentous breakthrough has occurred at the intersection between traditional finance giants and decentralized technologies. As of September 29, 2026, Pi Network takes its place on the official list of "Ecosystem Partners" of Open USD (OUSD), a next-generation *stablecoin*. So, what does this historic inclusion mean for Pi’s institutional future? Below, we explore all the details. 👇

I just saw a piece of data and I was completely stunned.
Visa, BlackRock, Stripe, Coinbase, Mastercard, American Express—140-plus institutions, working together to push a stablecoin called Open USD. 140— not 14, but 140. What does that even mean? Do you know how many years it took Circle, with just one company, to reach the current scale when USDC came out? Open USD launches with 140 partners, including your card-issuing bank.
Someone says, isn’t this just another USDT? Bigger-picture thinking, sisters.
Open USD’s design is different from all existing stablecoins. First, enterprises can mint and redeem at zero cost—major institutions don’t need to pay millions in fees. Second, the returns from the reserve assets are used to cover management fees and then everything is returned to partner institutions—meaning Visa takes the money users hold in OUSD to invest, earns profits, and shares them with Visa, not with Open Standard. Third, it’s not controlled by a single company; Open Standard and its partners form a board to govern together.

Digital financial infrastructure is set to undergo an epic turning point. As blockchain technology gradually matures, stablecoins—acting as the bridge between fiat currency and digital assets—are now quietly approaching the scale of traditional ACH (Automated Clearing House) systems in terms of global network transfer volume. However, when enterprise users embrace this technology, they consistently face business pain points such as costly exchange losses, uneven distribution of returns from underlying reserves, and highly centralized monopolistic dynamics.
Against this macro backdrop, a new stablecoin project aimed at reshaping the global funds transfer network—Open USD—has officially entered the public spotlight. Spearheaded by a newly established independent operating organization, Open Standard, the project is expected to be fully rolled out to the market in the second half of 2026.

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The launch of Open USD, the 140-plus company stablecoin consortium backed by Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, and BlackRock, drew a direct response from the person with a lot to lose.
Key Takeaways
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire publicly argued Open USD won't dethrone USDC.He cites Artemis data putting USDC at 80% of on-chain dollar stablecoin volume.His sharpest point: consortium products have a "dismal" track record at scale.It's the incumbent's rebuttal, not neutral proof, and he has a clear stake.
Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire, whose company issues USDC, laid out a methodical argument via post on X for why he isn't worried, which is itself a signal that the launch registered as a genuine competitive event worth answering.
The Market Is Already Asking the Question
The timing tracks with the data. Per Santiment's trending dashboard, the Open USD launch was one of crypto's top trending stories, sitting alongside whale activity and MiCA licensing, with social volume spiking sharply and sentiment leaning mixed-to-bearish. The dashboard framed the open question plainly: whether another major stablecoin can truly compete with USDC and USDT. Allaire's post is the incumbent's direct answer to exactly that question, and the accurate read is that the market hasn't resolved it, it has simply heard the market leader's strongest case for why the answer is no.
His Core Argument: Stablecoins Are Winner-Take-Most
Allaire's foundational claim is that stablecoin networks behave like internet platform utilities, tending toward winner-take-most market structures built over long periods. The strength, in his framing, isn't the token but the number and range of applications integrated to it. Every developer integration compounds network effects, which drives currency demand, which reinforces liquidity, a loop he argues a new entrant can't simply buy its way into with a big logo list. As he put it, stablecoin networks "tend towards winner-take-most market structures."
The Market-Share Numbers
His hardest weapon is usage data. Citing third-party info from Artemis , Allaire states that in Q1 2026, USDC handled nearly $30 trillion in on-chain transactions, which he frames as "80% of all dollar stablecoin transactions on blockchains," with USDT handling the remaining 20% and all other dollar stablecoins combined accounting for effectively zero, under half a percent. On the other hand Circle's report declares USDC onchain transaction volume in Q1’26 of $21.5 trillion grew 263%. His point is that other stablecoins may have circulation, but real usage is minimal because they lack liquidity and network utility. These are his cited figures via Artemis, not independently verified here, and they are the incumbent's strongest data point precisely because they measure usage rather than announcements.
The Liquidity Moat
Allaire extends that into a liquidity argument. He contends USDC is a top-three most liquid digital asset alongside Bitcoin and USDT, with liquidity falling off sharply after those three. The closest competing dollar stablecoins, in his telling, are roughly 10 times smaller, with liquidity concentrated in promotional order books on single exchanges rather than dispersed across dozens of venues the way USDC's is. It's a direct counter to Open USD's implicit pitch that a coalition of large companies can manufacture liquidity: his claim is that liquidity is earned over a decade, not assembled by consortium.
We’ve had lots of questions from our investor community looking for thoughts on OUSD, and so I thought I’d share my direct views here for anyone.Stablecoin networks are platform and network effect businesses that are established over a long period of time, tend towards…— Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc (@jerallaire) July 1, 2026
The Consortium Critique
This is his sharpest and most pointed argument, and it targets Open USD's core differentiator directly. Allaire's claim is that the track record of consortium products achieving scale, product-market fit, or basic agility is, in his words, "absolutely dismal." Large groups of large companies, he argues, coordinate poorly, carry misaligned incentives, move slowly, and starve the venture out of self-interest. He notes Circle tried a consortium model in USDC's early days, even with a small group, and hit endless complexity.
From there he makes a prediction: smaller, tighter commercial partnerships with a market leader will outcompete large consortiums, and the same firms lending their logos to Open USD will, in practice, direct their operating units to partner with USDC because that serves their customers best. It's worth being precise that this is a forecast of how Open USD will struggle, not evidence that it has, but as a structural argument it's his most persuasive, because it reframes Open USD's main selling point, broad shared governance, as its main weakness.
His Rebuttals to Open USD's Selling Points
Allaire also pre-empts Open USD's three headline pitches:
On "free mint and burn": he argues the payments industry runs on small basis-point fees, and that a stablecoin with strong redemption facilities and no fees simply becomes the off-ramp for its competitors. Circle, he says, handles this through contractual mechanisms instead of blanket fee exemption.On "everybody shares the reserve income": he counters that giving away all reserve income starves infrastructure investment, and that Circle already shares the majority of its income with distribution partners while retaining enough to keep investing.On shared governance: the consortium critique above.
The Diplomatic Close
Notably, Allaire doesn't dismiss Open USD outright. He says Circle's partnership with Coinbase "remains as strong as ever," that Circle works closely with many Open USD founding members he expects will stay large USDC partners, and he welcomes Open USD "as a new member of the community." Welcoming a competitor rather than attacking it is a posture only the market leader can afford, and it's part of the message: confidence, not alarm.
The Honest Read
Allaire's argument is strong precisely because it leans on the two things Open USD can't replicate overnight: cited market-share dominance, 80% of on-chain dollar volume by his Artemis figures, and a decade of accumulated liquidity and regulatory licensing, including USDC's availability across all of Europe and Japan. The consortium critique is his most compelling point because it's structural rather than defensive.
But it should be read as the incumbent's perspective, not settled fact. Allaire has an obvious interest in dismissing a competitor backed by Visa, Mastercard, and BlackRock. The Artemis figures are his citation, and the consortium critique, however well-argued, is a prediction about how Open USD fails, not proof that it will. The Santiment data captures the real market uncertainty his confidence is designed to counter. The honest conclusion is that the question, can a new consortium stablecoin challenge USDC, remains open. What Allaire has provided is the clearest version of the market leader's case for why it can't.
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This is still the story trending across every crypto platform right now, and Binance's own search leaderboard has it ranked directly alongside MiCA's launch and Trump's $1.4 billion disclosure as one of this week's three biggest crypto stories. Open USD — a new dollar-pegged stablecoin — launched this week backed by a consortium of more than 140 companies including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, and BlackRock.
I covered the immediate market impact yesterday — Circle's stock crashed 17.5% on the news, its worst single-day performance since going public. But it's worth stepping back today and understanding exactly why this specific coalition of backers makes Open USD structurally different from every other stablecoin challenger that's tried and failed to dent USDC or USDT's dominance.
Every previous consortium-backed stablecoin challenge — PayPal's $PYUSD after three years still sits at $2.6 billion market cap, Ripple's $RLUSD after nearly two years sits at $1.6 billion — has struggled precisely because a single company backing a stablecoin doesn't automatically bring genuine transaction volume with it. Open USD is different in one crucial structural way: Visa and Mastercard aren't just "supporting" this stablecoin, they're payment networks that literally control the rails through which a meaningful percentage of global commerce flows. If Visa and Mastercard start routing even a modest percentage of their existing transaction volume through Open USD instead of traditional card rails or competing stablecoins, that's not speculative adoption — that's forced volume from infrastructure these companies already own and control.
The economic model is the real disruption here, and it's worth understanding precisely. Circle currently pays Coinbase $908 million annually just to distribute USDC — meaning Circle's own key partner has been a major line-item cost rather than a profit center. Open USD flips this entirely: zero minting fees, zero redemption fees, no volume caps, and 100% of Treasury reserve interest earned gets shared directly with the partners generating that volume. For Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, that means they finally capture economic upside from stablecoin volume they were previously helping generate for someone else's bottom line, for free.
The realistic timeline matters for anyone trying to trade this story rather than just read about it. Open USD faces the exact same cold-start adoption problem every stablecoin challenger faces — announcing 140 backers is very different from those backers actually routing meaningful daily transaction volume through the new token. William Blair maintains an Outperform rating on Circle specifically citing this first-mover advantage gap. Watch Open USD's actual on-chain transaction volume over the coming weeks, not just the headline backer list, to know whether this genuinely threatens USDC's $73 billion market position or fades like every consortium stablecoin before it.$SPCXB
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Everyone is watching to see whether BTC at $58K can hold, and I’m watching something else.
Open Standard launched a new stablecoin called Open USD. If it were just another stablecoin, I wouldn’t single it out. But its partner list looks like this: Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, DBS, Coinbase, OKX, Aave, Ripple, Solana, Polygon. More than 140 companies. It spans everything—from bank cards, to asset management, to exchanges, to DeFi—covering the full spectrum.
The most crucial part is its design logic. It’s not like Tether’s “you mint your own currency and then you pocket the interest” kind of play. The yield on OUSD’s reserve assets—meaning the money you deposit in USD that BlackRock then invests in short-term government bonds—after deducting management fees, is returned in full to the partners. Open Standard doesn’t retain profits for itself; instead, it convened a board of directors so everyone can share in it together.