Chia Network partners with Brale to launch stablecoins. Partnership targets 24/7 trading of tokenized real-world assets. Reading Time: 3 mins read Chia Network, a blockchain platform focused on enterprise asset tokenization, has partnered with regulated stablecoin infrastructure provider Brale to expand stablecoin issuance and payment capabilities across its ecosystem. The collaboration will enable developers, financial institutions, and businesses building on Chia to issue stablecoins supported by Brale's infrastructure. It will also provide access to fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, allowing users to move funds between traditional banking systems and blockchain-based financial applications. The partnership aims to simplify stablecoin issuance and fiat connectivity on Chia, creating infrastructure for the continuous trading and settlement of tokenized real-world assets across global markets. The agreement brings together Chia's blockchain infrastructure for issuing and managing digital representations of assets with Brale's regulated stablecoin services. The companies intend to reduce the technical, operational, and regulatory challenges that businesses often encounter when developing blockchain-based financial products. Brale provides stablecoin issuance through a single API. Brale offers a unified application programming interface (API) that enables developers to issue stablecoins and transfer funds across supported blockchain networks and traditional bank accounts. Through this infrastructure, businesses can integrate stablecoin functionality into their applications without independently developing all the underlying issuance, banking, and payment systems. The platform is designed to support stablecoin programs through several essential services, including regulatory licensing, banking relationships, compliance infrastructure, and custody arrangements. These capabilities could help companies enter the digital asset market more efficiently by reducing the need to establish separate relationships with multiple financial and technology providers. For developers building on Chia, the integration is expected to provide a more direct route to introducing stablecoin-based payment and settlement functionality. Businesses will also be able to explore financial applications involving tokenized assets without having to construct an independent stablecoin infrastructure from the ground up. Brale's cross-chain capabilities could further support the movement of funds between supported blockchain ecosystems and conventional financial accounts, expanding the potential reach of applications developed on Chia. Stablecoins begin deployment across Chia ecosystem. The partnership has already moved beyond the announcement stage, with the first stablecoins being deployed within the Chia ecosystem. Chia reported that transactions using Brale's infrastructure were already underway, indicating that the integration has begun supporting practical activity. The initial deployment is intended to support global trading of tokenized real-world assets around the clock. Traditional financial markets generally operate within defined trading hours and settlement schedules. Blockchain-based asset markets, by contrast, can support continuous transaction processing, potentially allowing participants in different geographic regions to access digital asset markets beyond conventional business hours. Stablecoins can play an important role in these markets by providing blockchain-based payment instruments linked to traditional currencies. They can facilitate the transfer of value between buyers and sellers while reducing dependence on conventional payment processes. By integrating regulated stablecoins with Chia's tokenization infrastructure, the partnership seeks to establish a foundation for 24/7 global trading and settlement of real-world assets. The availability of fiat on-ramps and off-ramps is also significant because it can help connect traditional financial accounts with blockchain-based investment and trading platforms. Chia expands enterprise blockchain capabilities. Chia Network develops blockchain software designed to support the tokenization, ownership, and trading of assets. Its public blockchain is open source and was created by Bram Cohen, who is also known for founding BitTorrent. The network's focus on enterprise asset tokenization positions it within the broader movement toward bringing traditional financial and commercial assets onto blockchain infrastructure. Brale complements this approach by providing regulated financial services required to support stablecoin issuance and circulation. Its infrastructure combines technology with banking, compliance, licensing, and custody services. The integration could make it easier for enterprises and developers to build tokenized asset markets on Chia by combining blockchain-based asset management with regulated stablecoin issuance and traditional banking connectivity. The initial stablecoin deployments and ongoing transactions provide an early indication of how the two companies intend to bring the partnership into practical use. Further adoption will depend on demand from businesses, developers, and institutions seeking infrastructure for digital asset trading and settlement.

Chia 2.7.4. Chia 2.7.4 is now available! This version includes important security updates, please install it at your earliest convenience: https://www.chia.net/downloads/. The primary focus of 2.7.4 is on strengthening the codebase against AI-assisted attacks. In addition, Chia Network Inc. is getting ready for the hard fork, the final block height of which will be set in the 3.0 release. Chia Network Inc. also have made some improvements to the reference wallet UI. UI updates. The reference wallet GUI now has themes! To change themes, click Settings (the gear icon in the lower-left corner), then select a Color Theme along with your preferred Appearance (LIGHT or DARK). This release comes with three built-in themes: * CHIA - matches the Cloud Wallet's style (default) * CLASSIC - the original green theme * AUTUMN - warm hues if the season's right Big thanks to Shohei Abe for your work on this feature! In addition, NFT-viewing is more seamless in this release. Improvements include: * Smooth playback of video and audio NFTs(previously, they often would render as a blank tile) * NFTs that are stored directly in IPFS load and cache without issue, provided that the links remain valid * The cache is now persistent; large NFTs don't need to be reloaded each time the wallet is launched * A clear error message when something does go wrong * In the event that the default IPFS gateway isn't serving your NFTs correctly, you can now use a fallback link (configurable in the NFT tab of the Settings screen) Big thanks to jlobue10 for your work on this feature! Protocol updates. In its continued push for better security and reliability, Chia Network Inc. has applied updates to the reference wallet, node, and mempool. As usual, Chia Network Inc. will provide a full post-mortem for all security updates once Chia Network Inc. has achieved sufficient adoption. Mempool/Fast forward hardening. Of the various updates to the default mempool; the main focus is on fast forward spends, for example preventing double spends and mismatched costs in certain situations. The mempool also now provides additional dedupe checking, which helps with eviction when a fast forward spend fails to be included in a block. This update also improves the mempool's general robustness, which will help in selecting and including certain transactions. Full node and sync reliability. The full node's sync process will now handle errors more gracefully, send better weight proof errors, and improve the UnfinishedBlock cache. Chia Network Inc. has also improved the block validation for quicker rejection of invalid data. Wallet hardening. In the reference wallet, if a single peer fails, wallet subscriptions will now continue instead of stalling. Chia Network Inc. also added new limits to coin state processing and additional caching in order to prevent some Out-Of-Memory (OOM) errors. In addition, Chia Network Inc. has added some type-safety to the wallet protocol, which should also help with reliability. DataLayer bug fixes. In an effort to improve the reliability of the Chia DataLayer, Chia Network Inc. has added the ability to recover from missing blob files, improved the cleanup when unsubscribing from a store, prevented a potential deadlock scenario that can occur when creating a wallet while syncing, and improved the way singletons are identified. Wallet CLI updates. Several new flags have been added to the wallet, DID, NFT, Offer, and VC CLI commands in order to provide more flexibility. The flags are fully backward compatible, and are included in its CLI documentation. For the exact list of updated commands, see this GitHub PR. Hard fork readiness. In preparation for the upcoming hard fork, 2.7.4 includes the new plot ID filter, the new harvester protocol, and the V2 plot metadata. This version also includes the new cost format, which will alleviate the remaining cost mismatch issues. Lastly, support for the new PlotNFT format is here, including wallet and farmer support for the new pooling protocol, as well as updated CLI/RPC support. Each of the changes in this final category will activate with the hard fork several months after the release of 3.0. For the complete list of changes that went into this release, see the changelog on GitHub. Deprecation and archival notes. Python 3.10 is deprecated as of this release. If you build from source, then please update to 3.11 or newer. See the Python release status for more information about their release cadence. And finally, just a reminder that Chia Network Inc. will be archiving the NFT bulk minting tool as of this release. If you want to mint NFTs in bulk, Chia Network Inc. recommend MintGarden Studio.