✨🏦✨With US$ 671 billion in assets, the banking giant officially enters the stablecoin market and chooses the Stellar blockchain for its ability to freeze, recover, and provide advanced transaction control — a move that brings traditional banks closer to the crypto ecosystem.✨$XLM ✨
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🏦 One of the largest banks in America enters the stablecoin game
U.S. Bancorp, the fifth largest financial institution in the United States, has confirmed that it is testing its own stablecoin directly on the Stellar (XLM) blockchain.
According to data from the Federal Reserve, the bank has over $671 billion in assets under management, making this initiative one of the largest incursions of a traditional bank into the crypto ecosystem to date.
This move positions U.S. Bancorp alongside giants like:
• Bank of America
• Citigroup
• JPMorgan
• Franklin Templeton
• WisdomTree
• Circle (USDC)
All exploring or already operating with dollar-backed digital tokens and Treasuries.
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🌐 Why was the choice Stellar (XLM)?
According to the bank, the decision was not random.
The senior vice president of innovation at U.S. Bancorp, Mike Villano, stated that Stellar was chosen because it offers:
✔️ Asset freezing
✔️ Reversal and recovery of transactions
✔️ Native tools for KYC/AML
✔️ Direct operational control in the protocol
✔️ Optimized architecture for payments and banks
He stated:
“For banking customers, we need protections like know your customer, the ability to recover transactions, and greater control. Stellar allows us to freeze assets and transactions directly at the operational layer.”
In other words:
Security + compliance + control — three critical factors for traditional banks.
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⚙️ What does the bank intend with this stablecoin?
According to Dominic Venturo, Chief Digital Officer of U.S. Bancorp:
“Customers want to understand how digital assets can help them move money safely, store deposits, and use tokenized assets.”
The stablecoin is being tested for:
• Fast client-to-client payments
• Internal bank settlement
• Instant transfers
• Tokenization of deposits
• Corporate use cases
The focus is not to compete with USDC or USDT —
is to create tokenized banking infrastructure.
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⭐ Stability of Stellar: the decisive factor
Stellar presented:
🟩 99.99% uptime in the last decade
🟩 Network used by global institutions
🟩 Native capacity for regulated tokens
🟩 Speed + low cost + institutional control
The blockchain is already used by:
• Franklin Templeton
• WisdomTree
• Taurus
• Circle (USDC)
Now, U.S. Bancorp adds its name to the list — reinforcing the growing trend of traditional banks migrating to hybrid and highly compliant crypto networks.
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🔥 Why does this matter to the market?
This move by U.S. Bancorp is significant for three central reasons:
1️⃣ Traditional banks no longer want to be left out of the crypto sector
The competition among banks to dominate the digital dollars market is officially open.
2️⃣ Deep institutional adoption of Stellar
XLM returns to the radar as one of the most 'institutional' blockchains in the market.
3️⃣ Bank stablecoins are coming
It won't just be USDC and USDT.
Now traditional banks want their own stablecoins — regulated, audited, and integrated into banking systems.
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🎯 Final Summary
U.S. Bancorp — the fifth largest bank in the U.S. — has just fully entered the digital assets sector by testing its own stablecoin on the Stellar network.
This move:
🟩 Strengthens institutional adoption
🟩 Puts XLM back at the center of the debate
🟩 Accelerates banking tokenization
🟩 Brings the crypto economy closer to the traditional financial system
The future will not just be 'crypto vs banks'.
It will be crypto + banks.
