Stable (STABLE) - The First USDT-Native Layer 1 Blockchain

Escaping Fragmented Stablecoin Infrastructure#

Over 500 million people worldwide rely on USDT for payments, savings, and cross-border transfers. Yet the infrastructure supporting these transactions remains fragmented across multiple blockchains, unpredictable in fees, and incompatible with enterprise requirements. Users pay transaction fees in volatile gas tokens like ETH or SOL, creating complexity and cost uncertainty. Stablecoins generate massive trading volumes but lack dedicated settlement rails that match traditional payment system reliability.

The Payment Rail Built for Digital Dollars#

Stable introduces StableChain, the first Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built exclusively for USDT settlement. By using USDT as the native gas token and optimizing every protocol layer for stablecoin transactions, Stable delivers the predictability, speed, and institutional-grade features that global payments demand. The network launched mainnet on December 8, 2025, backed by Bitfinex, Tether, and major industry leaders including PayPal Ventures.

What is Stable?#

What does Stable do?#

🔗 USDT as Native Gas: StableChain uses USDT (gUSDT) directly for all transaction fees, eliminating the need for users to hold volatile gas tokens like ETH or BNB. This creates a single-currency experience where users transact exclusively in dollars, removing complexity and cost unpredictability that plague general-purpose blockchains.

⚡ Sub-Second Finality: Powered by StableBFT consensus protocol, Stable achieves transaction finalization in under one second, matching the performance standards of traditional payment systems like Visa and Mastercard. This instant settlement enables real-world payment applications from merchant checkout to cross-border remittances.

🏢 Institutional-Grade Infrastructure: The protocol embeds enterprise requirements directly into the base layer including guaranteed blockspace allocation for mission-critical transactions, confidential transfers that balance privacy with regulatory compliance, and native batch processing for high-volume operations like payroll distribution.

🔧 Full EVM Compatibility: Developers can deploy Ethereum smart contracts without modification while accessing specialized precompiled contracts optimized for USDT operations. The network supports familiar tooling including MetaMask, Hardhat, Etherscan, and Remix, reducing migration friction for existing dApp teams.

🚀 Massive Throughput Capacity: StableChain’s architecture supports 10,000+ transactions per second through optimistic parallel execution, memory-mapped state database (StableDB), and planned DAG-based consensus upgrades. This scalability enables the network to handle both consumer payment volumes and institutional settlement flows.

🌉 Cross-Chain Interoperability: Through LayerZero integration and USDT0 (Omnichain Fungible Token standard), users can bridge USDT seamlessly between StableChain and major ecosystems including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Tron. Stargate Finance provides the primary bridging interface with deep liquidity pools.

💼 Enterprise Payment Rails: The network partners with payment orchestration platforms like Orbital and consumer apps like Oobit to enable USDT spending at 80M+ Visa-supported merchants globally. Custody solutions from Anchorage Digital and compliance infrastructure from Paxos provide institutional-grade security and regulatory alignment.

Who are behind Stable?#

Brian Mehler - Chief Executive Officer

• 15+ years of experience across finance, venture capital, and blockchain technology

• Previously served as CFO and Managing Director at Gateway Capital

• Former Vice President of Venture Investments at Block.one, where he managed a $1 billion blockchain fund backing companies including Galaxy Digital, Mythical Games, and Securitize

• Holds Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with majors in Finance and Real Estate

Sam Kazemian - Chief Technology Officer

• Founded Frax Finance, pioneering hybrid collateral mechanisms and on-chain stabilization for algorithmic stablecoins

• Co-founded IQ.wiki, the world’s largest blockchain encyclopedia

• Leads technology development at Stable focusing on payment protocol design, cross-border transaction efficiency, and developer integration infrastructure

• Studied philosophy and neuroscience at UCLA

Thibault Reichelt - Chief Operating Officer

• Started career at Kirkland & Ellis law firm and Abu Dhabi Investment Council before moving into venture investing

• Backed major crypto companies and protocols including Compound, dYdX, StarkWare, Circle, Kraken, Wintermute, Anthropic, and xAI

• Leads global scaling, operations, and cross-border partnerships at Stable

• Holds Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and MPhil in Management from University of Cambridge

How Stable Inspires Confidence#

Strategic Backing from Industry Giants: Stable raised a $28M seed round led by Bitfinex and Hack VC, with strategic investment from PayPal Ventures. The project also receives advisory support from Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, positioning Stable as the official infrastructure layer for the USDT ecosystem with direct alignment to the world’s largest stablecoin issuer.

Mainnet Launch with 150+ Partners: The network launched mainnet on December 8, 2025 with over 150 ecosystem partners across wallets (Binance Wallet, Bitget Wallet, OKX Wallet), exchanges (Binance Alpha, KuCoin, Bybit, Gate.io, MEXC, Bitfinex), custody providers (Anchorage Digital, Fireblocks), and infrastructure platforms (Alchemy, LayerZero, Morpho, Pendle).

Real-World Payment Integration: Partnerships with Oobit enable USDT spending at 80M+ Visa merchants across 30+ countries including the United States, South Korea, Singapore, UAE, Nigeria, Brazil, and Argentina. The Orbital partnership connects enterprise payment flows to StableChain’s low-cost settlement layer, addressing global remittance corridors and B2B cross-border transfers.

Institutional Adoption Momentum: Stable secured over $1.1 billion in pre-deposit commitments across two campaign phases, with participation from 10,000+ verified wallets. The network partnered with Standard Chartered’s Libeara and Wellington Management to deploy $100M into ULTRA, the only tokenized U.S. Treasury strategy rated AAA by Particula, bringing institutional-grade RWAs to StableChain.

Technical Innovation Leadership: The architecture optimizes every layer from consensus (StableBFT upgrading to DAG-based Autobahn) to execution (parallel EVM with EVMONE integration) to storage (MemDB and VersionDB via memory-mapped I/O). These full-stack optimizations deliver 2-5x performance improvements over general-purpose Layer 1 blockchains while maintaining deterministic finality.

Regulatory Alignment and Compliance: As a Layer 1 blockchain recording all transactions on-chain, Stable provides immutable settlement history supporting reconciliation and oversight. The protocol works alongside licensed on/off-ramp providers and custodians, enabling enterprises to link blockchain settlement with traditional banking infrastructure while meeting AML/KYC requirements.

What to Know Before You Buy Stable#

1. First Dedicated USDT Settlement Layer

Stable is the only Layer 1 blockchain designed exclusively for USDT transactions, with every protocol component from consensus to execution optimized for stablecoin operations rather than general-purpose computation. This specialization enables fee predictability, instant finality, and institutional guarantees unavailable on networks like Ethereum or Solana that must balance stablecoin activity with diverse smart contract workloads.

2. Strong Strategic Moat from Infrastructure Lock-In

Once enterprises integrate Stable’s guaranteed blockspace, confidential transfers, and batch processing into their financial workflows, switching costs become prohibitive even if competitors offer similar features. The network effect compounds as USDT settlement consolidates on Stable, creating deeper liquidity, lower costs for all participants, and superior financial tooling compared to general-purpose chains.

3. Massive TAM from Underserved USDT Use Cases

Current blockchain infrastructure primarily serves USDT trading and liquidity provision, leaving vast opportunity in global payments, corporate treasury operations, remittances, and emerging market financial services. Stable’s payment-system-grade reliability positions it to capture this multi-trillion-dollar addressable market as stablecoins expand beyond crypto-native applications.

4. Dual-Token Model Aligns User and Network Economics

Users transact exclusively in USDT for predictable costs, while validators stake STABLE tokens to secure the network. This separation avoids economic contradictions that limit general-purpose chains where gas token volatility conflicts with payment use cases. USDT gas fees flow into a protocol treasury that validators may distribute to STABLE stakers, creating sustainable value capture as transaction volume grows.

5. Strategic Partnerships with Payment Giants

PayPal’s investment and integration of PYUSD0 onto StableChain, combined with Oobit’s merchant network and Orbital’s enterprise payment flows, provide immediate distribution channels for mainnet adoption. These partnerships bypass cold-start problems that plague most Layer 1 launches by connecting StableChain to existing payment infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users.

6. Rapid Development Roadmap to 10,000+ TPS

The three-phase roadmap progresses from mainnet launch (Phase 1) through optimistic parallel execution and StableDB optimization (Phase 2, Q4 2025) to DAG-based consensus achieving 10,000+ TPS throughput (Phase 3, Q2 2026). This aggressive timeline, backed by experienced infrastructure teams from Frax and Block.one, demonstrates technical competence to deliver on scalability promises.

How to buy Stable?#

Stable was listed on Binance Alpha on December 8, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, with trading opening first for users who claimed the airdrop via Merkl. Binance Alpha is Binance’s platform for discovering and trading emerging crypto projects before broader market availability, providing early access to new tokens with deep liquidity. Users with at least 250 Binance Alpha Points can participate in the initial distribution, with STABLE gradually becoming available for spot trading across major exchanges.

To purchase STABLE on Binance Alpha, you’ll need USDT in your Binance account. If you don’t have a Binance account yet, sign up at Binance to access STABLE trading along with hundreds of other cryptocurrencies.

Buy Stable on Binance

Once Binance Alpha trading opens more widely, you can swap USDT for STABLE directly through the Binance Alpha interface, which provides early price discovery before tokens list on Binance’s main spot market.

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