JP Morgan launches USD stablecoin for $100+ trillion of institutional settlement - instant, onchain and 24/7.
Wall Street just entered the stablecoin arena - JP Morgan deposit token is round-the-clock, real money, no middlemen.
Retail won’t touch JP Morgan stablecoin.
No payments.
No remittances.
No savings accounts.
This is institutional-only stablecoin.
I explain what JPMorgan built:
- permissioned USD deposit token (JPMD) launched on Coinbase’s Base chain
- For 24/7 cross-border cash movement between JPMorgan’s global entities
Not speculative.
Not retail.
Just pure internal liquidity routing
Think of it as a blockchain-native internal settlement layer.
From: Hong Kong -> London -> New York - instant.
T+0, sub-second, sub-cent.
JPMorgan trademarked JPMD last week.
Filing covers:
- Digital asset trading, issuance, custody
- DLT-based clearing, account verification & fraud protection
- Settlement of securities and futures on-chain
- Electronic transfer of institutional funds via blockchain
Why does this matter?
Because this is world’s largest bank…
- $3.9 trillion in assets
- $10 trillion+ in monthly payment flows
- Now running stablecoin infrastructure on public blockchains
Stablecoins show how crypto rails are already winning.
Stablecoins are crypto’s biggest real-world success:
- $260B market cap, led by USDT and USDC
- $1T monthly volume: used by prop traders, market makers & hedge funds
- <10% is retail flows
Actual stablecoin utility?
Moving size fast.
Professional liquidity.
High-frequency rebalancing.
And now banks are copying it.
But not with CBDCs - those are for interbank experiments.
JPM stablecoin is private, programmable, on-chain money system - with real usage, not pilot theater.
This is what happens when finance meets crypto infrastructure:
- Private tokens
- Public rails
- Regulated use cases
- Institutional flows
Forget the headlines.
Crypto is not “coming to TradFi.”
Crypto is TradFi now.
Founders, investors, fintech builders - what are you still waiting for? 👇
But it’s not a token. They use blockchain to record some isolated deposit transfers but that doesn’t make it a token.