August 2026

Welcome to the latest edition of The Stable Standard, where we share progress across Stable and the broader shift toward stablecoin-native financial infrastructure.

August marked a major technical milestone for Stable with the v1.8.0 Mainnet Upgrade, introducing improvements designed to increase throughput, make transaction processing more efficient, and provide greater predictability as network activity scales.

Across the ecosystem, Stable also expanded support for institutional assets, StableEarn integrations, trading infrastructure, and everyday USDT payments through StablePay.

• Upgraded Stable Mainnet to v1.8.0, introducing Optimistic Parallel Execution, Selective RecheckTx, MemIAVL, 2D Nonce, and Guaranteed Blockspace.

• Introduced infrastructure for predictable transaction inclusion and reserved network capacity for eligible, time-sensitive payment flows.

• Libeara, incubated by Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures, expanded its institutional RWA infrastructure to Stable.

• Stable went live on DEXTools, improving token discovery, charts, and real-time activity across the ecosystem.

• Continued expanding the StablePay experience for sending, receiving, requesting, and earning with USDT.

On August 26, Stable Mainnet upgraded to v1.8.0, introducing performance improvements designed for higher-throughput payments and settlement.

The upgrade focused on making transaction execution more efficient and predictable as network activity grows.

Key improvements include:

• Optimistic Parallel Execution: Independent transactions can execute simultaneously across multiple CPU cores, increasing execution throughput.

• Selective RecheckTx: Reduces unnecessary transaction reprocessing following each block.

• MemIAVL: Improves state storage efficiency and reduces disk-write overhead.

• 2D Nonce: Introduces independent transaction channels for the same account, preventing one delayed transaction from blocking unrelated transactions.

• Guaranteed Blockspace: Enables eligible participants to reserve network capacity for priority transaction flows, providing more predictable execution during periods of high network activity.

Together, 2D Nonce and Guaranteed Blockspace provide stronger infrastructure for businesses managing multiple concurrent or time-sensitive USDT flows.

For exchanges, payment providers, treasury platforms, and other high-volume applications, this means greater certainty when processing activities such as payroll, payouts, merchant settlement, and treasury operations.

The release also incorporated applicable upstream security patches and additional hardening across balance handling and EVM state transitions.

Read more about the Stable Mainnet v1.8.0 Upgrade here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2090365424164819099?s=20

Stable is heading back to Seoul as a sponsor of Korea Blockchain Week 2026, taking place from September 29 to October 1.

Seoul continues to be a leading hub for conversations shaping the future of payments, and we’re looking forward to meeting builders, partners, institutions, and the wider community while sharing more about what’s ahead for Stable and the infrastructure we’re building for USDT-native payments and settlement. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2094788505188901064?s=20

See you in Seoul. 

Throughout August, we continued expanding how users can experience USDT through StablePay.

StablePay brings everyday USDT activity into one application and one USDT balance, allowing users to:

• Send and receive USDT instantly.

• Request payments using a StableName, payment link, or QR code.

• Add and withdraw USDT.

• Access StableEarn directly within the app.

StablePay is available on iOS and Android across 160+ countries.

We also explored how StablePay makes everyday USDT payments feel simple by abstracting away network gas and wallet addresses in the third edition of Stable Thesis. Read here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2087179101094494653

Download StablePay for everyday USDT payments:

→ App Store: stablepay.to/app-store

→ Google Play: http://stablepay.to/play-store

August brought continued expansion across institutional finance, yield infrastructure, trading tools, and developer resources on Stable.

• Libeara expanded to Stable, bringing institutional tokenization infrastructure from a platform incubated by Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures. The integration expands the infrastructure available for bringing real-world financial assets onchain through Stable. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2089733331315569019?s=20

• Stable went live on DEXTools, giving users another way to discover tokens, view charts, and follow real-time trading activity across the Stable ecosystem. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2085385680797270314?s=20

• KuCoin Campaign: 1M STABLE reward pool to celebrate the launch of USDT on the StableChain. Users could earn by depositing USDT via the Stable Network.

• Binance Wallet campaign: Round two of the Stable campaign on Binance Wallet, where eligible users with sufficient Alpha Points could claim STABLE tokens.

Stable continued to join conversations around stablecoin infrastructure, payments, and the future of onchain finance across Asia.

• Our CEO, Brian Mehler, joined a CoinW X Space to discuss Stable, stablecoin payments, and the infrastructure required to support the next generation of global financial applications. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2092180110560596201?s=20

• Brian Mehler also joined the Interlace AMA to discuss infrastructure for the AI economy, including stablecoins as a settlement layer and Stable’s approach to powering agentic payments. 

• Looking ahead to KBW2026, Brian is confirmed as a speaker, with Stable joining Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul as a sponsor. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2092251375816347762?s=20

• Stable joined MrBlock Summit in Taipei, where Brian shared more on Stable’s approach to building USDT-native infrastructure for the next generation of stablecoin payments. Learn more here: https://x.com/Stable/status/2094426342863540606?s=20

With v1.8.0 now live, our focus remains on scaling the infrastructure, products, and ecosystem needed to make USDT more useful for both businesses and everyday users.

Upcoming work includes:

• StableChain: Continuing to improve network performance, throughput, and predictability for high-volume USDT activity.

• StablePay: Expanding the ways users can fund, send, receive, request, earn, and withdraw USDT.

• Ecosystem growth: Growing integrations across payments, infrastructure, liquidity, institutional finance, and financial applications.

• Developer ecosystem: Expanding the Stable SDK, documentation, and resources for building USDT-native applications.

Stable remains focused on building fast, predictable infrastructure for moving USDT at global scale.

• Mainnet Hub: https://hub.stable.xyz

• StablePay: https://www.stablepay.to/

• Documentation: https://docs.stable.xyz

• Blog: https://blog.stable.xyz

• X: @Stable

• Community: https://discord.gg/stablexyz

Thank you for building with Stable.

The next issue of The Stable Standard will arrive next month.