SoFi launches stablecoin for retail customers as first U.S. national bank

SoFi just dropped SoFiUSD, a stablecoin backed by the dollar, running on Ethereum and Solana. This makes them the first national bank in the U.S. to provide a stablecoin directly to regular customers on a public blockchain. Now, almost 15 million SoFi members can buy, sell, hold, and convert SoFiUSD right in the app. Each token can be traded for U.S. dollars on a 1:1 basis via SoFi Bank. SoFi’s got big plans for SoFiUSD, aiming to use it for typical finance stuff like cross-border payments and business transactions. They’re also looking at adding features like earning interest on tokenized deposits, FDIC-insured accounts, and 24/7 international transfers. This is a big deal for $SOL and $ETH.

Who cares? They want to offer water or water. Water is not different from water. United States dollar and United States dollar collateralized stable coins. There is no difference. What we are expecting are not fiat or fiat related coins, bitcoin would have been better.

The stablecoin ecosystem seems questionable to me, so I will think twice before accumulating stablecoins unless I need them for business-related global transactions. I find it shady because stablecoins are pegged to the USD, which itself has a controversial past, present, and will have a future. In my opinion, investing in stablecoins undermines the intention of reducing dependence on the USD. I might be mistaken in my viewpoint, but I believe that the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can only be understood in relation to the USD. But investing a dollar in a digital dollar is kind of promoting the dollar without the dollar. From what I understand, this bank is selling USD in digital format to stimulate investment and facilitate remittances within its ecosystem.

Dollar is not issued on Solana or Ethereum. Dollar cannot be withdrawn to Metamask or Phantom and then used in the DeFi ecosystem, investing in assets or raising TVLs. Do you really not understand how huge it is?

Do not worry, just make use of the stable coin on your bank account if you are in United States, you will understand that the stable coin on your account can not be withdrawn to your stable coin addresses. You will have to convert fiat to stable coin on your bank account, convert the stable coin back to the fiat. This is how the banks have been operating, even if they support bitcoin. But at least, bitcoin is an appreciative asset and some people that do not want to buy bitcoin and hold on noncustodial wallet can make use of their bank, although no full control. Unlike United States dollar and stable coins pegged to the dollar to be used in bank. Is it having any use? No. All the questions you asked is about the use of stable coins without the need of the bank which is what stable coins are created for.

We will see if this is going to affect the other banks since they already have the userbase. This might be big move for the banking sector adopting stable coins of their own. With so many banks in the US, there could be a lot of it as well in the next months making their own stable coins. As long as it's backed by their own reserve, their customers will have the confidence in using it.

And what's the news in this? Another dollar backed stablecoin in the market. I wonder why they chose to lunch a new coin instead of using one from the existing projects. Some of them are already recognized by the US legislations. And from another side, what will be the difference between giving customers USD dollar or cryptocurrency stablecoin backed by dollar? Personally, I had never believe on those news as development toward large adoption. While I know that this news will be read as an innovation made by the trump era. Then later nobody will use that stablecoin.

Honestly, having a stablecoin issued by US national bank instead of the one managed by private company is pretty huge news. We potentially be getting a superior backing and eliminate risk of depegging. If i want to choose a centralized stablecoin, I might as well prefer the bank issued stablecoin and getting backed by real cash and not shot term bond.

Stablecoins are a scam because they are not truly stable. The only thing stable about them is their loss of purchasing power. By holding stablecoins over the long term, you become poorer every year as the value of the dollar declines. ETH and SOL are scams as well. They are centralized networks launched by insiders who allocated a large portion of the supply to themselves and then sell it to retail investors. Nothing about them is stable or secure. It is better to stay away from them and focus on studying Bitcoin only.

yep, exactly. one thing is buying stablecoins via a debit card on a 3rd party service or a CEX and the other thing having that option right in your banking app. plus it opens the pandora box, if SoFi can do it, then literally any American big bank is allowed to do it (and will do it)

So this proves that how bank prefer to issue their own stable coin instead of continue with the CBDC concept. It's good to see banks seems increase their pace to release any product related to the crypto. However, a universal stable coin should be enough. So any entities will have their own charger phone. Paypal with its PYUSD, Sofi with its sofiUSD, and more to come. It feels pointless to have so many stable coins, but let's see how it's playing. Nevertheless, i can only guess why they don't use universal stable coin due to the transparency.

Interesting development. As bank-issued stablecoins grow, AML compliance becomes even more critical for end users. USDT-TRC20 holders already face this — exchanges freeze deposits based on transaction history, not just the sender. Screening incoming transfers before depositing to any CEX is becoming essential practice.

Agreed on that, the more issuer the better. This year and previous year alone there has been so many stablecoin that depegs, losing its peg due to the collateral reserve getting looped recklessly in several defi causing bad debts. Big bank issuing their on stablecoin backed by real USD from their reserve will be game changer, it will allow other big bank to follow. By then, a dangerously looped collateral stabelcoin will not exist anymore because people have better option.

Huge news, indeed. This should give SoFi Bank a fair advantage over its competitors. It decided to "break the ice" by launching its very own stablecoin on public blockchain networks. Based on this move, I wonder why other banks haven't been inclined to the same? Perhaps, they were skeptical of stablecoins. Between stablecoins and a CBDC, there will be literally no difference. The US will now have a "de-facto" Digital Dollar, even if vehemently opposes a CBDC under the current administration. This will solidify the USD's dominance in the mainstream world. Just you wait and see. The "party" is just getting started...

That bank looks familiar, and as I browsed, they are the official banking partner of the NBA, and they really stand out, or I can remember them when they sponsored the Play-in tournament. Well, yeah, huge as it affects crypto as a whole, but don't we have a lot of these stablecoins already, and even have that USD1 that is being tied to Trump, and do we need more?

I do not think that it would make sense, while this bank has started doing it, I think it is still a bad move, CBDC or not. Some bank offering you a stablecoin, means that they are guaranteeing that it is 1 to 1 backed, but how do you know it really is? That makes no sense, we have seen banks bankrupt all the time, your entire money would be gone again. Normal savings have up to 250k saved, which means if you have more, then it's gone, so you are already taking a huge risk. But on top of that, these will not be protected neither, so all of it would be gone.

In the context of stablecoin, I think the more stablecoin the better. Stablecoin is already a centralized token, to reduce risk people diversify but there is arguably lack of good stablecoin in the market. The other altcoin that you see beside USDC, USDT, and USD1 is mostly backed by fractional reserves of USDC. You are using stablecoin that is backed by other stablecoin, the bad effect would be if USDC fall other will fall too. We need more altcoin that got backed by direct USD reserve for diversification purpose and to reduce potential disaster.

This should be taking some time, they have to get approval to be able to do this, I do not think that they have that yet. It would be great for them  to start, but as you might imagine it is not going to matter to the market that quickly. For this to matter, it has to be most of the banks to do something like this. Like let's say a big bank such as BoA to start accepting all over the nation type of thing. If they can do that, then it is going to matter a lot and it is going to be make a lot of sense for the people as well.

So many stablecoins today, and I do believe this one is a profitable business. The company can invest in short-term bonds, mutual funds, or simply bank deposits, while the user gets nothing. But stablecoin market is so crowded in my opinion. Tho their decision to launch SoFiUSD simultaneously on Ethereum and Solana is operationally brilliant. while stablecoin is pretty much the same one thing different here is they directly from bank not just regular companies

integrating crypto into an app like sofi is a lot more complex than just adding a "buy" button to the frontend. i highly doubt they are running their own nodes in-house. the operational overhead of maintaining rpc endpoints across multiple chains is a massive devops headache. you have to deal with sync issues, latency, and constant network upgrades. traditional fintech apps usually outsource this to node-as-a-service providers to guarantee uptime and strict slas. they basically rent the infrastructure. this is exactly where companies like crouton digital fit into the ecosystem. they handle the backend node maintenance and routing, so a platform doesn't have to build out an entire web3 devops team from scratch. makes sense operationally. outsourcing the heavy lifting is really the only way traditional finance apps can support multi-chain networks without constantly breaking.