{"id":51778,"date":"2025-10-08T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51778"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:47:10","slug":"north-dakota-to-issue-stablecoin-with-fiserv-as-digital-dollar-trend-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51778","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota to Issue Stablecoin With Fiserv as Digital Dollar Trend Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. state of North Dakota is joining the stablecoin trend, with state-owned Bank of North Dakota <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.fiserv.com\/newsroom\/detail\/2868\/bank-of-north-dakota-and-fiserv-partner-to-launch-roughrider-coin-north-dakotas-first-stablecoin\">teaming up<\/a> with payments infrastructure giant Fiserv (FI) to launch a U.S. dollar-backed token aimed at financial institutions across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The token, dubbed &#8220;Roughrider Coin,&#8221; is expected to roll out next year and will run on Fiserv\u2019s digital asset platform and plug into its white-label FIUSD system, a stablecoin network designed for regulated banking environments.<\/p>\n<p>The token is aimed to &#8220;increase bank-to-bank transactions, encourage global money movement and drive merchant adoption,&#8221; the firms said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows Fiserv&#8217;s June entrance with its crypto issuance platform on Solana (SOL) to the fast-growing stablecoin sector. Stablecoins are increasingly used as a faster, cheaper and programmable alternative for moving money on top of blockchains. The asset class swelled to $293 billion, expanding roughly 70% in a year. The fast-paced growth was spurred by the GENIUS Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/07\/18\/trump-signs-genius-act-into-law-elevating-first-major-crypto-effort-to-become-policy\">signed<\/a> into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in July, which set a federal framework for stablecoin issuers and cleared a legal path for financial institutions to adopt the technology.<\/p>\n<p>With its stablecoin plan, North Dakota is joining Wyoming as the latest U.S. state experimenting with crypto. Wyoming has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/08\/19\/wyoming-state-debuts-u-s-dollar-stablecoin-on-seven-blockchains\">deployed<\/a> its state-issued Frontier Stable Token earlier this year, and it is currently in a test phase.<\/p>\n<p>Fiserv processes over 90 billion transactions a year for 10,000 financial institutions, and aims to position itself as a bridge between traditional finance and blockchain tech.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/10\/06\/stablecoin-surge-could-trigger-usd1t-exit-from-emerging-market-banks-standard-chartered\">Stablecoin Surge Could Trigger $1T Exit From Emerging Market Banks: Standard Chartered<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. state of North Dakota is joining the stablecoin trend, with state-owned Bank of North Dakota teaming up with payments infrastructure giant Fiserv (FI) to launch a U.S. dollar-backed token aimed at financial institutions across the state. The token, dubbed &#8220;Roughrider Coin,&#8221; is expected to roll out next year and will run on Fiserv\u2019s [&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-51778","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\/51778","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=51778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}