{"id":42915,"date":"2025-08-19T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42915"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:01:58","slug":"wyoming-state-debuts-u-s-dollar-stablecoin-on-seven-blockchains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42915","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming State Debuts U.S. Dollar Stablecoin on Seven Blockchains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wyoming state <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/WYGOV\/bulletins\/3ee734a\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday the mainnet launch of its U.S. dollar stablecoin Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), claiming it to be the first fully-reserved stablecoin in the country issued by a public entity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mainnet launch of the Frontier Stable Token will empower our citizens and businesses with a modern, efficient, and secure means of transacting in the digital age,&#8221; Mark Gordon, governor of Wyoming and chairman of the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The token has already been deployed on the Arbitrum (ARB), Avalanche (AVAX), Base, Ethereum (ETH), Optimism (OP), Polygon (POL), and Solana (SOL) networks, blockchain data on the <a href=\"https:\/\/stabletoken.wyo.gov\/pages\/FRNT\">project&#8217;s website<\/a> shows. The token is designed to be 2% over-collateralized, backed by U.S. dollars and short-duration U.S. treasuries held in trust. <\/p>\n<p>The token will be available for the broader public in the coming days on Solana through Wyoming-domiciled exchange Kraken and Rain\u2019s Visa-integrated card platform on the Avalanche blockchain, the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, coincided with the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, follows the U.S. enacting federal laws with the GENIUS Act to regulate the fast-growing stablecoin sector and issuers.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins are a $260 billion class of cryptocurrencies with prices tied to an external asset like the U.S. dollar. They could become a trillion dollar market in the next few years and disrupt payments flows as adoption in the real economy expands, crypto trading firm Keyrock projected in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/14\/stablecoin-payments-projected-to-top-usd1t-annually-by-2030-market-maker-keyrock-says\">recent report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming, known for its forward stance on blockchain legislation, created the Wyoming Stable Token Commission in 2023 to develop and issue a U.S. dollar-backed token and oversee its integration into public finances. Last month, the state conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/07\/17\/wyoming-tests-instant-payments-with-state-issued-stablecoin-on-avalanche-based-hashfire\">test transaction<\/a> for real-time government contractor payment on the Avalanche-based Hashfire.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has partnered with LayerZero for token issuance, Fireblocks for blockchain infrastructure, Franklin Advisers for reserves management, Inca Digital for open-source intelligence and The Network Firm for audits and monthly attestations, all selected through a procurement process, the press release said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/08\/18\/u-s-treasury-department-starts-work-on-genius-gathering-views-on-illicit-activity\">U.S. Treasury Department Starts Work on GENIUS, Gathering Views on Illicit Activity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming state announced on Tuesday the mainnet launch of its U.S. dollar stablecoin Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), claiming it to be the first fully-reserved stablecoin in the country issued by a public entity. &#8220;The mainnet launch of the Frontier Stable Token will empower our citizens and businesses with a modern, efficient, and secure means of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-42915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}