TREE NEWS update: World Liberty Financial said at Token2049 Singapore that it plans to connect its USD1 stablecoin to large online businesses, partnering with payments infrastructure provider Mesh. Mesh co-founder and CEO Bam Azizi said USD1 holders will be able to use the stablecoin across its merchant network, with a launch planned this quarter. USD1, issued by BitGo and backed by cash and US government money market funds, has a market value of about $4.45 billion.
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The significance here is less the stablecoin itself than the distribution channel: plugging a BitGo-issued, T-bill-backed dollar token into an existing payments network is how stablecoins move from trading venues toward everyday checkout, where the real competition is incumbent card rails and other bank-adjacent tokens. Merchants and payment processors in Mesh's network are the immediate parties affected, since they would be settling in a token whose reserves sit in cash and government money market funds. Whether the promised quarterly launch actually ships, and how much of that merchant network goes live, is the open question.
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