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orchestratoorStable Games, Part 2
Why the “Visa of stablecoins” will be a neutral coordinator, not a walled garden In every wave of infrastructure change, there’s a temptation to map the future onto the past. Right now, in stablecoins and cross-domain settlement, the dominant analogy is: “The winner will be whoever becomes the Visa of stablecoins.” The reasoning sounds airtight:Visa scaled by aggregating merchants into a single acceptance networkThey controlled both sides of the market and set the tollsThe bigger the network,...
orchestratoorStablecoins are not the product... you are
Ravioli Ravioli give me the formuoliIntroductionLet’s cut right to it. The current payment landscape is a mess. Clunky systems, hidden fees, and slow transaction times are just the start of it. Amidst this, a new innovation has emerged that has the potential to change the game. Now, you might be thinking, "Stablecoins!"... however - like money, they are just another tool."Stablecoins are the product!"“People who buy and sell chips think about the price of chips, and people who operate data ce...
orchestratoorIt’s All Just Trust Assumptions
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” - Steve JobsWe spend a lot of time in fintech and crypto talking about how fast money moves. Real-time payments, blockchain finality, atomic swaps - all designed to make value fly across networks at the speed of light. But here’s the truth most people don’t like to say out loud: None of it works without trust.It All Starts With BeliefBe...
Turning intents into real-world transfers across chains, stablecoins and banking systems.
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Why the next era of cross-domain movement will be a competition for corridor influence.
We rank nations by GDP, companies by market cap and markets by index levels.
But in cross-domain value movement, whether over bank rails, stablecoins or other ledgers - one of the most decisive contests is hidden: which routes attract the deepest liquidity and when.
FX is the clearest way to see this game today. It’s the first or middle leg of most cross-border flows and the dynamics that govern it apply across every settlement medium. The same trust assumptions, the same need for balanced float, the same reality: liquidity is leverage.
In any domain, liquidity sets three things:
Price – Deep pools tighten spreads.
Speed – Balanced float means faster settlement.
Access – Your position in the market determines the price you even see.
The last is the least discussed - and the most consequential. The same USD↔BRL trade might cost 8bps for a Tier 1 bank and 180bps for a mid-market payment company. That’s not volatility. That’s market structure.
This stratification exists in every major currency pair and in every domain where value moves under different trust assumptions. Swap “interbank” for “Tier 1 stablecoin issuer” or “payment processor” for “retail wallet” and the dynamics barely change.
In USD↔MXN, consistent remittance inflow and deep derivatives markets create tight, liquid conditions year-round. In USD↔BRL, liquidity is seasonal, tied to export cycles and interest rate carry, leaving large parts of the year with elevated spreads and slower settlement. The same dynamics appear in onchain USDC↔BRZ pools - just with different pipes.
Every day, liquidity shifts between corridors and domains:
Banks rebalance float between currency pairs.
Market makers and LPs adjust depth in token pools or bank accounts.
Payment companies and protocols route flow toward where they can get the best execution under their trust model.
The contest is constant but:
Opaque – No public scoreboard of where depth is strongest.
Fragmented – No unified mechanism to move capital across domains for maximum effect.
Biased – The top tiers see spread compression first; smaller players wait longest.
If corridor liquidity allocation were visible and rules-based, with incentives tied to measurable performance, we could:
Compress spreads across tiers and domains
Shorten settlement times regardless of whether the leg is fiat↔fiat, fiat↔stablecoin, or stablecoin↔stablecoin
Lift underserved routes where liquidity depth today is a function of seasonality or a single counterparty relationship
In other words, the same mechanism that would make USD↔BRL more efficient could make USDC↔MXNB or EUR↔KES more efficient because at its core, it’s all just value moving across trust boundaries.
Right now, corridor competition in FX or in stablecoins is a closed sport.
Opening it would turn liquidity into an openly managed global resource, where influence is earned by improving efficiency, not by sitting on incumbency.
The “stable games” aren’t a thought experiment. They’re already playing out - you just can’t see the scoreboard yet. When you can, the advantage will go to those already playing.
orda
Why the next era of cross-domain movement will be a competition for corridor influence.
We rank nations by GDP, companies by market cap and markets by index levels.
But in cross-domain value movement, whether over bank rails, stablecoins or other ledgers - one of the most decisive contests is hidden: which routes attract the deepest liquidity and when.
FX is the clearest way to see this game today. It’s the first or middle leg of most cross-border flows and the dynamics that govern it apply across every settlement medium. The same trust assumptions, the same need for balanced float, the same reality: liquidity is leverage.
In any domain, liquidity sets three things:
Price – Deep pools tighten spreads.
Speed – Balanced float means faster settlement.
Access – Your position in the market determines the price you even see.
The last is the least discussed - and the most consequential. The same USD↔BRL trade might cost 8bps for a Tier 1 bank and 180bps for a mid-market payment company. That’s not volatility. That’s market structure.
This stratification exists in every major currency pair and in every domain where value moves under different trust assumptions. Swap “interbank” for “Tier 1 stablecoin issuer” or “payment processor” for “retail wallet” and the dynamics barely change.
In USD↔MXN, consistent remittance inflow and deep derivatives markets create tight, liquid conditions year-round. In USD↔BRL, liquidity is seasonal, tied to export cycles and interest rate carry, leaving large parts of the year with elevated spreads and slower settlement. The same dynamics appear in onchain USDC↔BRZ pools - just with different pipes.
Every day, liquidity shifts between corridors and domains:
Banks rebalance float between currency pairs.
Market makers and LPs adjust depth in token pools or bank accounts.
Payment companies and protocols route flow toward where they can get the best execution under their trust model.
The contest is constant but:
Opaque – No public scoreboard of where depth is strongest.
Fragmented – No unified mechanism to move capital across domains for maximum effect.
Biased – The top tiers see spread compression first; smaller players wait longest.
If corridor liquidity allocation were visible and rules-based, with incentives tied to measurable performance, we could:
Compress spreads across tiers and domains
Shorten settlement times regardless of whether the leg is fiat↔fiat, fiat↔stablecoin, or stablecoin↔stablecoin
Lift underserved routes where liquidity depth today is a function of seasonality or a single counterparty relationship
In other words, the same mechanism that would make USD↔BRL more efficient could make USDC↔MXNB or EUR↔KES more efficient because at its core, it’s all just value moving across trust boundaries.
Right now, corridor competition in FX or in stablecoins is a closed sport.
Opening it would turn liquidity into an openly managed global resource, where influence is earned by improving efficiency, not by sitting on incumbency.
The “stable games” aren’t a thought experiment. They’re already playing out - you just can’t see the scoreboard yet. When you can, the advantage will go to those already playing.
orda
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