Built on Aleo 🛡🛠 Highlighting USAD by @paxoslabs ✨ Private dollars, built for real-world finance. USAD on Aleo is a privacy-preserving stablecoin issued by Paxos Labs and backed 1:1 by USDG reserves. Private, programmable dollars for payments, payroll, and financial applications. Most stablecoins today run on public blockchains where every balance, payment, and transaction is visible. That model worked early on, but it breaks down for real-world financial systems. Companies can't expose treasury activity. Users shouldn't reveal their entire financial history. Institutions need both privacy and compliance. Real finance requires both. That's where USAD on Aleo comes in. Built on Aleo's zero-knowledge architecture and issued through Paxos Labs' infrastructure, USAD encrypts transaction data by default and supports compliant, selective disclosure when needed. The result is a digital dollar designed for real-world use. Payments without exposing identities. Payroll without leaking compensation data. Financial applications without sacrificing confidentiality. But more importantly, USAD creates a foundation for entirely new applications to be built on top. One example is @usetoku. Toku is a global compliance platform that has processed more than $1 billion in token payroll volume. By integrating Aleo's privacy layer into Toku's platform, enterprises can now pay teams in stablecoins without exposing salaries, bonuses, or treasury flows onchain. Crucially, Aleo and Toku didn't just build this and ship it. They used it themselves first, paying their own globally distributed teams before launching to enterprise clients. By integrating Aleo, stablecoins evolve from transparent ledgers into infrastructure that can support modern financial systems. Learn more in our full article 👇

Aleo is the first blockchain to support shielded transactions on @Ledger 🛡️ For years, this gap has been an open problem. Hardware wallets were originally built for transparent chains, not private execution. Shielded transactions require generating zero-knowledge proofs over private state, a fundamentally different signing flow. After working closely with Ledger to adapt their architecture this feature is now live. Available across 7M+ devices. Until now, hardware wallets secured keys, but not privacy. This created new risks for large holders by exposing balances and activity. That tradeoff is gone. "At Ledger, our foundation is built on uncompromising security. This partnership with Aleo represents a pivotal moment, merging our hardware-based security with their zero-knowledge cryptography." — @P3b7_, CTO, Ledger Learn more 👇