TechFlow reports that on February 13, Decibel—a fully on-chain trading engine co-incubated by Aptos Labs and built atop Aptos’s high-performance infrastructure—announced a partnership with Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin infrastructure provider, to launch USDCBL, a protocol-native U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin. USDCBL will serve as Decibel’s default collateral asset, streamlining unified collateral trading workflows, enhancing DeFi infrastructure within the Aptos ecosystem, and reinforcing Aptos’s core competitive advantage in high-performance, institutional-grade on-chain trading scenarios.
USDCBL will be issued via Bridge’s Open Issuance platform and fully backed by U.S. dollar reserves. Upon Decibel’s mainnet launch, users will be able to convert USDC into USDCBL with a single click.
Decibel’s pre-deposit functionality is now officially live. According to official disclosures, over $42 million in funds were deposited within the first 12 hours of pre-deposit availability. The initial phase supports fully on-chain perpetual contracts trading; spot and real-world asset (RWA) trading modules will follow in subsequent releases.
