What is Stable?
1. Project Overview / What is Stable
Stable claims to be the “world’s first blockchain dedicated to stablecoins” — also known as “Stablechain”. The official website describes it as:
“Stable is an institutional-grade blockchain built for stablecoins. … Delivering the rails that global institutions and payment systems can trust.”
Its target scenario: Stablecoins like USDT are already used daily by 500M+ users, yet the underlying “rails” remain fragmented, costly, and slow. The website states:
“500M+ users rely on USDT daily yet the rails are still fragmented, unreliable, and expensive.”
Thus, Stable’s positioning is: Build a blockchain specifically designed for stablecoin payments and settlements, enabling global-scale circulation of digital dollars.
2. Core Features / Key Features
Stable highlights several selling points / modules on its website:
- Native USDT Settlement — “Use USDT to pay transaction fees and avoid fee rate volatility.”
- Gasless by Design — “Fees in USDT, with free peer transfers and no surprises.”
- Enterprise-Ready — “Fast, compliant, and easy to integrate at global scale.”
- Throughput That Scales — Official target: 10,000+ TPS.
- EVM Compatible — Seamless migration of Ethereum tools and smart contracts.
- UX & Finality — Promises sub-second finality, gas-free peer transfers, etc.
3. Target Audience
According to the website, Stable targets the following user groups:
- Institutions & Enterprises: “Built to meet the performance, compliance, and reliability standards of the world’s largest financial players.”
- Consumers / Users: “Stable makes digital dollars feel like real money. Fast, simple, and predictable.”
- Developers: Modular SDK, EVM compatibility, developer-friendly migration environment.
4. Roadmap
The website outlines a phased development plan:
- Phase 1 (Now): Deploy the world’s first native USDT blockchain infrastructure with real throughput and utility.
- Phase 2 (Q4 2025): Introduce optimistic parallel execution & StableDB to boost throughput while maintaining second-level settlement.
- Phase 3 (Q2 2026): Scale to 10,000+ TPS with DAG-based consensus, laying the foundation for future enterprise applications.
5. Highlights & Challenges
Highlights
- Focuses on stablecoin payment/settlement — a large-scale real-world use case, closer to the real economy than typical crypto chains.
- Uses USDT as native “Gas” — a direct response to current on-chain fee volatility.
- Balances users, enterprises, and developers — broad adaptability.
Challenges
- High barriers: Achieving 10,000+ TPS, global enterprise compliance, and mass adoption of stablecoin payments.
- High regulatory risk: Stablecoins + large-scale cross-border settlement involve multiple jurisdictions.
- Fierce competition: Many high-TPS and payment-focused chains exist; failure to quickly build ecosystem and capture use cases risks marginalization.
- User ecosystem and real-world use cases need time to validate.