Mr. Robot’s Ecoin Comes to Life Via Wall Street’s New Blockchain
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A permissioned blockchain with USDC at the core and validators like BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard is Wall Street testing a shared ledger without ceding control. For fintechs, the question shifts from "crypto or not" to whether you can plug into these consortium rails once they start carrying real settlement volume.
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