
COO @ground_onchain prior: Co-founder @veda_labs, @usmc @navalacademy @columbia_biz | no investment advice
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Steph Vaughan retweeted
The people who need stablecoins the most aren't in the US.
They're in Brazil, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey, and many other countries, holding digital dollars to mitigate local inflation.
Apps built for these regions are deeply interested in making those dollars earn with time-tested US tokenized funds.
Our API is built for companies that have users with stablecoins and want to build earn products with access to diverse, high-quality yield products. Reporting, rebalancing, taxes, and a dashboard come with it, so you can ensure you have the compliance and oversight data you need.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Ground was happy to participate in creating this framework with CCI.
Important work to define a path forward for vaults.
1/ The @SECGov issued a call to better understand crypto vaults. CCI’s Vault Coalition answered. We submitted “Under Control: A Framework for Applying the Federal Securities Laws to Crypto Vaults,” 200+ pages of technical and legal analysis.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
As the saying goes, we didn’t have time to write a short paper, so we wrote a long one.
Proud to share @crypto_council vault coalition’s work on a practical framework. Grateful to our members and the @ChapmanCutler team for bringing it together.
1/ The @SECGov issued a call to better understand crypto vaults. CCI’s Vault Coalition answered. We submitted “Under Control: A Framework for Applying the Federal Securities Laws to Crypto Vaults,” 200+ pages of technical and legal analysis.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
🚨🗞️NEW: Crypto Vaults Put 90-Year-Old Securities Rules to the Test
Can securities laws keep up with crypto vaults? A new report from @crypto_council says the answer may hinge on how much control humans retain over how the funds are managed.
cryptoinamerica.com/p/exclus…
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Everyone's building a neobank these days.
They are all very focused on clean, simple UX.
We work with a lot of them and make it easy for them to generate yield for their users and revenue for themselves.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Building with @privy_io? You can now add tokenized Treasury yield to your app.
Our integration guide is live in Privy’s recipes. It walks through:
→ connecting and allowlisting a user-owned Privy wallet
→ depositing USDC into gUSTB, backed by Superstate’s USTB
→ withdrawing back to USDC, instantly or queued
Start building: docs.privy.io/recipes/yield/…
Steph Vaughan retweeted
TRON carries more than 60% of real-economy stablecoin payments.
And very little of it earns anything.
allium.so/reports/state-of-s…
Steph Vaughan retweeted
"Instant liquidity" in crypto is not always available. Many large decentralized finance venues have utilization rates above 90%; only 10% can withdraw at any time.
This is exactly why we built a risk engine @ground_onchain to ensure liquidity exists for withdrawals from DeFi vaults and markets.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Portfolio Wallets now have a two rebalance settings to choose from:
Automatic: new funds go straight to work against your target strategy.
Manual: nothing moves unless you move it and new funds say in cash
We're always improving the grounds at Ground, built for your stack and your use case.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Not many deeply care about which chain they are building on.
At @ground_onchain, we're working very hard to make it so you can access any yield source from any chain, regardless of the chain you're building on.
Already, our clients can access yield on Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Stellar, Tempo, and Tron on Ground. More to come, but tell me what's missing.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
With @ground_onchain every company will become a savings app.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Onchain settlement means faster, better payments and assets.
But with frontier models in the hands of black hats, those building at the edge of fintech need to be prepared.
Take a look at what @realsamyoon has built to ensure Ground users stay safe.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
One of the core challenges that traditional financial institutions face when growing adoption of their crypto-related products has been the ability to reach KYCed customers who want to purchase these products. However, onchain KYC itself has not fully been solved.
I did a deep dive of current onchain KYC solutions, along with corresponding regulatory frameworks, alongside my @a16zcrypto partner @MicheleKorver. We also discuss the forthcoming Know Your Agent (KYA) landscape and emerging solutions.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Usually, fintechs hold a % of balances uninvested, so withdrawals happen instantly.
15% idle against a 3.3% yield blends you down to 2.8%.
That 50bps is more than most platforms plan to make on the product by a fair margin, and more than most providers charge for the whole thing.
We already work with amazing partners like @grovedotfinance that has built a $100M instant liquidity facility for @centrifuge's JTRSY.
Reach out, and we'll help you build a fully utilized, fully liquid earn product.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
→ Neobanks offering earn on customer balances
→ Payment companies putting settlement float to work
→ Treasury teams managing their own reserves
They all use the Ground API with access to assets from @centrifuge, like JTRSY and JAAA.
Tokenized assets are reaching new audiences inside products people already use.
Integrations with @ground_onchain, @labs_compass, @get_para and @lifiprotocol bring them to portfolio builders, developers and agents, fintech users, and capital on other chains.
More on how integrations are scaling distribution: centrifuge.io/blog/tokenized…
Steph Vaughan retweeted
We've heard from 20+ customers that liquidity matters as much as, if not more than, APY.
With Ground's Risk Engine, clients can set a rule based on withdrawable liquidity, TVL, or APY, and program a real-time response or alert when it triggers.
Rules can be absolute or velocity-based. A yield source sitting at low withdrawable liquidity for a while may be acceptable, but if a source loses 40% of its liquidity in a day, you have to rapidly adjust the way you treat it.
An example rule would be: if available withdrawable liquidity on morpho-gauntlet drops >10% in 1 hour, exit the position to cash.
Rules are associated with individual yield sources, so they're precise and simple to build.
You can set a rule once, and it will run continuously until you turn it off. When a rule triggers, you'll receive an email alert and a webhook. Your ops team doesn't need to be awake 24/7 to watch 10 sources and react to changes; instead, your systems know in seconds.
Live now in the Ground Dashboard (API access coming soon): portal.groundtech.co/signup
Steph Vaughan retweeted
JTRSY is available through the Ground API and Dashboard.
Deposit across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon, or Arbitrum.
Instant redemptions via @grovedotfinance.
Basin is deeper 🌊
Grove Basin JTRSY has now reached $100M in instant stablecoin liquidity.
Available to JTRSY holders on @centrifuge.
Tap in 🚰
Steph Vaughan retweeted
We’re excited to welcome @GoodStephV , COO of @ground_onchain , to the NYU Blockchain Lab on October 5. Stephanie will join us for a conversation on building infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenized yield, and the next generation of fintech products. At Ground, she leads operations and go-to-market, helping build infrastructure that connects fintechs and payment platforms to digital assets and real-world yield products.
October 5, 2026 | 1:30 PM
Leslie eLab – Lean LaunchPad
Looking forward to an engaging discussion on where stablecoins, tokenized assets, and financial infrastructure are headed next.
Luma: luma.com/gi6gsn87
Steph Vaughan retweeted
Cannot say enough good things about the 21 @BlockchainAssn member orgs helping lead our new definitive Vaults Workstream.
Some of the best in the business: @GoodStephV @CJRobins01 @mssteuer @banamlas @AndrewJacobson_ @annabelleacta, and many more.
Steph Vaughan retweeted
There are many open questions about how yield, custody, and tokenized infrastructure should be regulated.
We're proud to be part of @BlockchainAssn's Vaults Workstream to help answer these questions and get the policy for onchain financial infrastructure right.
1/ Blockchain Association recently launched its Vaults Workstream, and we’re proud to be joined by dozens of leading member organizations helping shape policy discussions in Washington.
This level of engagement reflects the growing importance of vaults and related onchain technologies.
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