Sep 2, 2026 · 8 min read
We started Flux with a simple question: why does moving money across borders still take days, when moving everything else takes milliseconds?
Correspondent banking was designed in an era before real-time anything. It works, but it's slow, opaque and expensive. The float alone ties up working capital that could be earning or doing something useful.
Stablecoins give us a settlement asset that moves at internet speed but holds a dollar's value. That's the combination that makes two-second settlement possible.
Compliance doesn't disappear — it just moves into the rail, where it can run on every payment instead of a sample.