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Open Standard's OUSD dollar stablecoin launched on 30 September 2026 on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo. Its five founding backers have committed more than $1bn to build liquidity over the coming months. It does not run on bitcoin.
Open USD (OUSD), a dollar stablecoin run by Open Standard, went live on Wednesday 30 September 2026 on Ethereum, Solana, Coinbase's Base network and Stripe-backed Tempo, the company's chief executive, Zach Abrams, told CoinDesk.
A stablecoin is a token designed to hold a steady value, here one US dollar, backed by cash and similar reserves. OUSD is issued by Bridge, the stablecoin firm Stripe owns, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY, and Bridge will publish reserve attestations monthly, Unchained reported on 30 September.
Stripe said on the same day that OUSD on Tempo is now its default stablecoin configuration, and that it will not require users to convert existing stablecoin balances to OUSD.
Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa are Open Standard's first five founding partners and investors, each with an equal initial equity stake. Together they have committed more than $1bn to establish OUSD liquidity over the coming months, according to CoinDesk on 30 September 2026.
That detail matters. Some social posts described the sum as launch liquidity. The commitment, as reported, is spread over time and may take the form of holding the token, keeping it on-chain or making markets in it. The size of each firm's stake was not disclosed.
The wider group of companies planning to integrate OUSD has grown from more than 140 when the project was unveiled in June to more than 200, Stripe said on 30 September 2026.
Businesses can start using OUSD through Mastercard, Stripe and the Visa Stablecoin Platform now, with Coinbase access beginning on 1 October, Unchained reported. Each route lets a business mint and burn the token at a 1:1 rate against the dollar at no cost.
On Stripe, businesses can use OUSD to receive, hold, send and spend funds, issue cards and pay recipients abroad, the company said in its announcement. Open Standard pitches the token as open infrastructure for moving money at scale.
The model differs from established issuers. Partners earn rewards based on the OUSD supply and transaction activity they generate, and Abrams said much of the company's equity is intended to be distributed to partners over the next four to five years, according to CoinDesk.
The stablecoin market is worth more than $300bn. Tether's USDT had about $143bn in circulation and Circle's USDC roughly $74bn, CoinDesk reported on 30 September 2026.
Tempo's chief business officer, Dan Romero, told CoinDesk he sees a path to roughly $1bn of OUSD on Tempo within the next few months. That is his own target, not a result, and other outlets reported it in the same terms.
OUSD does not run on the bitcoin network. Its transfers settle on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo, so they add no fees to bitcoin blocks. A miner's income still comes from the block subsidy and bitcoin transaction fees, measured by hashprice.
Nor does the launch change what it costs to mine a coin. That rests on the price of electricity, the efficiency of the machine and network difficulty, none of which a new dollar token touches directly.
The possible link is indirect. Miners who sell some coins to pay power bills turn bitcoin into dollars, and cheaper, faster dollar rails could, over time, trim the cost of that step. For now, OUSD access runs through business integrations, and any stablecoin carries issuer and reserve risk, which is why the promised monthly attestations are worth reading.
For someone holding mining hardware, the numbers that matter this week are the same as last week: bitcoin's price, the next difficulty adjustment and the cost of power. OUSD is a story about how dollars move, not about how bitcoin is mined. How mining works explains where each of those figures comes from.
Firsthand Bitcoin vende y aloja hardware de minería, incluida esta máquina. Ningún fabricante, distribuidor ni programa de afiliados pagó ni revisó esta página, y no cobramos comisión por los enlaces de arriba. Las cifras históricas se calculan a partir del precio diario de bitcoin y del hashprice de la red, valuando cada día a sus propios precios. Nada de lo aquí expuesto es asesoramiento de inversión.