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U.S. Bank on Stellar: Why a 160-year-old bank chose an open network

Episode Summary

The team at U.S. Bank knows that being a leader in payments means being on the cutting edge of payments infrastructure. Enter stablecoins. In September, U.S. Bank officially launched the pilot of USBDC on the Stellar network. USBDC is one of the first bank-issued stablecoins deployed on a public blockchain, and it’s designed to make cross-border payments more efficient than ever. Today on block by block, Jamie Walker, Head of Digital Assets and Money Movement at U.S. Bank, sits down with Denelle Dixon to discuss.