Today Ondo Finance announced that JP Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments (formerly JPM Coin) was used to settle a delivery versus payment transaction for its OUSG tokenized money market fund on the Ondo blockchain. Hence, a blockchain-based bank account on the permissioned Kinexys blockchain was integrated for payments on a permissionless blockchain using Chainlink’s cross chain orchestration infrastructure. This inaugural transaction took place on Ondo’s testnet.
On chain transactions on public blockchain are usually settled either using stablecoins or with off chain payments. While crypto native firms might keep most of their assets on chain and prefer stablecoins to bank accounts, other companies will have the majority of their cash at a bank. So transferring from a bank account to a stablecoin in order to settle a transaction adds a layer of friction.
Momentum is building for tokenized collateral to be used for margin payments in traditional finance, particularly for derivatives. While a traditional finance firm might be comfortable using something like BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized money market fund, which is issued on permissionless blockchains, they may be less happy about holding stablecoins. One of the benefits of tokenization is to break down silos. For traditional finance firms, keeping money in both stablecoins and a bank account creates additional fragmentation.
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