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Amid the growing trend of digitizing traditional assets, STBL officially launched the institutional stablecoin USST on the Stellar network on July 1, 2026. The protocol enables the minting of USST by depositing real-world assets (RWA), initially utilizing tokenized treasury collateral known as USDY. Furthermore, the company intends to integrate Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund as a secondary backing option at a later stage.
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Sign InThis launch coincides with significant growth in the tokenized RWA sector, with Franklin Templeton already managing over $400 million in assets within its Benji tokenized fund per market data. Stellar is increasingly competing with networks like Ethereum and Polygon, which hold substantial shares of tokenized government bond issuances, making the USST launch a strategic move to bolster liquidity within the Stellar ecosystem.
Operationally, traders are watching USST's ability to attract institutional liquidity amidst stable U.S. interest rates. Looking ahead, the market awaits key inflation data that could impact the yields of backing assets, especially after the Super Core PCE YoY reached 3.94% as of June 25, 2026, which continues to influence the valuation of fixed-income instruments.