Stablecoins pass tools for cryptographic merchants to the backbone of global finance and represent a “significant innovation for world payments”, said Jack McDonald, vice-president of Stablecoins in Ripple on Wednesday during the 2025 consensus in Toronto.
Speaking during a recent panel alongside Crypto Exchange Kraken, the Mark Greenberg Consumption Head, McDonald argued that the rise of Stablecoins marks a “evolution” in the way money moves in the world. “It is an alternative way of making a payment in American dollars, but to make it in a way without friction and profitable,” he said.
The entry of Ripple into space with Rlusd, a fully sustained and regulated stablecoin, is part of a wider thrust to replace the cross -border and obsolete fragmented payment systems. “We have seen the use of stablecoins in payments, and it was a main engine to enter the business,” said McDonald.
Greenberg highlighted the ineffectiveness of the current financial system. “It’s a lot, too difficult to move money around the world,” he said. “Stablecoins are the answer to this, and I think what we see now is a tilting point.”
Kraken is a founding member of the Global Dollar Network, a consortium of crypto and traditional financial companies that issues the stablecoin USDG.
The two leaders said that the stables -coats providing the performance will be the next border, but the regulators are not yet there.
“If you hold deposits, you should be able to win on these deposits,” said Greenberg de Kraken, although he noted different regulatory positions through the courts. For example, the USDG cannot pay the return in the European Union according to the rules of the Mica.
McDonald said Ripple wanted to offer a yield on his stablecoin, but should record the Rlusd as security in the United States, “it is a completely different trip,” he said.
Over the next five years, the two leaders have agreed that stablecoins should reshape traditional finances as they become more omnipresent. McDonald underlined the acquisition by Ripple of Prime Broker Hidden Road as a key step towards the use of stablecoins as guarantee and transversal on the capital markets.
Greenberg said he sees stablecoins become so anchored in the financial system that “nobody talks more about it – just as no one talks about swift or threads”.
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