Lisbon – October 29, 2026 -- Movantis, whose network moves more than $60 billion a year, is adding the Stellar blockchain as a digital settlement rail, with USDC settlement for US-to-El Salvador payments as the first planned use case. The company announced the integration at Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation's annual conference.
Stellar handles settlement while Movantis runs conversion and payout
Stellar will accelerate the digital settlement leg. Movantis will supply connections to regulated local infrastructure and partners for liquidity, fiat conversion where needed, and last-mile payout. Through its regulated subsidiaries, Movantis plans to settle in USDC on Stellar, with local partners handling conversion and payout.
El Salvador is the starting corridor because it is a dollarized economy. Value settles in USDC and reaches recipients in US dollars, so there is no additional currency exposure along the way.
Round-the-clock settlement could cut prefunding requirements
Businesses and end users keep their familiar currencies and payment experiences, and the blockchain layer stays in the background. The settlement leg runs 24/7, including weekends and holidays. Movantis says this can reduce the capital that remittance companies and businesses must keep prefunded in the corridor.
The integration also works in reverse. Businesses operating on Stellar will be able to reach recipients in Latin America through Movantis, settling in stablecoins and paying out locally. Remittance companies, fintechs and wallets can access the corridor through the Movantis integration they already use for other markets.
Movantis frames Stellar as one rail among several
Movantis says traditional banking infrastructure, local payment systems and digital settlement rails each have a role in its multi-rail strategy. "Cross-border payments do not need one winning rail," said Robert Gatto, Chief Revenue Officer of Movantis.
Jose Fernandez da Ponte, President and Chief Growth Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation, said the U.S.-to-El Salvador corridor is designed to support faster and more efficient settlement.
Existing network handles 200 million transactions across 90,000 payout points
Movantis has operated for more than 20 years across the Americas, building licenses, local partnerships, liquidity and payout capacity. Its network processes more than 200 million transactions a year across over 90,000 payout locations, with connectivity in more than 130 countries.
Movantis expects the architecture to support further B2B and consumer flows, including for businesses in Europe, Asia and Latin America that want regional access through one integration. The flows will run through Institutional Stablecoin Settlement, which lets companies collect, convert, settle and pay out across Latin America in fiat or stablecoin. The company says the goal is to add a settlement option, not to replace existing rails.