Christian Catalini(@ccatalini):1/ Today, more than 140 companies, most of which compete fiercely with one another, agreed to back the same stablecoin. The vehicle is @openstandard, a new and deliberately independent company launching Open USD, or OUSD, and positioning it not as anyone’s product but as neutral infrastructure for payments, trading and the internet economy.

Christian Catalini

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Founder w/roots in academia. Founder @MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab. Past: Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Lightspark. Co-Creator, Libra. Head Economist, Meta.

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Christian Catalini@ccatalini

2026.06.30 15:55

1/ Today, more than 140 companies, most of which compete fiercely with one another, agreed to back the same stablecoin. The vehicle is @openstandard, a new and deliberately independent company launching Open USD, or OUSD, and positioning it not as anyone’s product but as neutral infrastructure for payments, trading and the internet economy.