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Global Settlement

Global Settlement

Category
  • Infrastructure Providers
  • Payments
Use Cases
  • Asset Tokenization
  • Cross-Chain Transfers
  • Payment Settlement
Blockchains Supported
  • Ethereum
  • Hedera
  • Canton (USDCx)
On/Off-Ramps
  • Yes
Platform
  • Web
Region
  • APAC
  • Europe
  • LATAM
  • Middle East and Africa
  • North America
Country
  • United States
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Global Settlement

One platform to issue, settle, and distribute stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized real-world assets. Built for banks, governments, and global financial markets, Global Settlement is compliant by design.

Global Settlement is building the future of currency.

Our platform, the Global Settlement Network, provides end-to-end infrastructure for issuing, distributing, and settling regulated digital money and tokenized assets - stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and tokenized real-world assets - all in one compliant, interoperable system.

Our core capabilities include:

  • Stablecoin Issuance & Management: End-to-end creation, reserve management, distribution, and redemption of fiat-pegged stablecoins through Stablecoin Studio, with built-in compliance controls and banking rail integration.
  • Real-World Asset Tokenization: A full asset lifecycle platform through our Tokenization Studio. From structuring and issuance to compliance-gated distribution, corporate actions, and atomic DvP settlement - with commodities as the primary asset class.
  • CBDC Infrastructure: Two-tier architecture giving central banks and governments programmable policy controls, privacy features, tiered distribution, and cross-border interoperability for digital currency programs.
  • Bridge-Less Cross-Chain Settlement: Native writes to destination chains reduce bridge risk with a dual PoA + PoS consensus mechanism, privacy-preserving identity management, and deterministic BFT finality.
  • Unified Identity & Compliance: A single DID-powered identity and policy engine that enforces KYC/AML, jurisdiction rules, and credential verification across every module enabling one onboarding to unlock tokenization, stablecoin, wallet, banking, and CBDC use cases without re-platforming.

Global Settlement serves three primary audiences: banks and financial institutions seeking compliant tokenization and stablecoin infrastructure; governments and central banks exploring CBDC issuance and cross-border settlement corridors; and market participants looking for deep, interoperable liquidity across tokenized real-world assets.

We operate across the US, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, with a growing pipeline spanning tokenized debt, money market funds, and FX exchange corridors, and are actively seeking partners across cross-chain liquidity, custody and wallet infrastructure, reserve management, and multi-fiat currency support.

Use Cases

Cross-Border Settlement

Banks and financial institutions lose time and money routing payments through correspondent banking chains. Global Settlement enables direct, bridge-less settlement across chains, reducing reliance on intermediaries, reducing costs by 60%–80%, and enabling 24/7 FX liquidity instead of waiting on batch processing windows.

CBDC Deployment

Central banks exploring digital currencies face a build vs. buy dilemma with sovereignty concerns on both sides. Global Settlement provides a two-tier architecture where the central bank retains full monetary policy control via mint/burn authority, transaction limits, and programmable disbursements while gaining native interoperability with other CBDCs and private stablecoins without surrendering data or relying on bridges.

Compliant Digital Identity & Onboarding

Regulated institutions spend months on repeated KYC/KYB cycles every time they onboard a new platform or counterparty. Global Settlement's DID product lets organizations and individuals verify once and carry portable, credential-based identity across tokenization, stablecoin, banking, CBDC, and wallet use cases - cutting onboarding friction, reducing compliance costs, and accelerating deal conversion.

Stablecoin Issuance & Operations

Issuing banks, fintechs, and payment networks need to launch and manage fiat-pegged digital currencies without stitching together five vendors. Stablecoin Studio gives them mint/burn controls, reserve management, compliance gating, and distribution rails in a single platform to accelerate time-to-market and reduce the operational overhead of running a stablecoin program.

Real-World Asset Tokenization

Asset managers, banks, and commodity holders sit on trillions worth of illiquid assets. Global Settlement lets them tokenize commodities, real estate, debt, and funds with built-in compliance, lifecycle management, and atomic DvP settlement to help unlock fractional ownership, deeper liquidity, and access to a global investor base that traditional markets may not easily reach.

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