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Stablecoin Settlement

Stablecoin Settlement evaluated across where the platform's float legally sits, published wholesale price, whose licence the platform operates under, and settlement finality and failure handling.

Ranked here: wholesale stablecoin settlement providers a platform integrates through one API to hold a balance, convert between fiat and stablecoins and pay out for its own users. Not ranked here: the products a platform sells to its users, merchant gateways for accepting crypto at checkout, and consumer remittances to a named relative.

#1 of 7published ranking

BVNK

80ChainChoice Score

Why it leads

BVNK scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its wholesale price published.

Show the arithmetic

Best in this ranking on wholesale price published (6/10; next 5/10)

Cost

Not priced · No comparable price is published

Reviewed 28 September 2026Next review by 12 November 2026Published 13 August 2026Methodology v2026.11.1

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Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

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Stablecoin Settlement ranked comparison

No comparable price is published; ranking still uses verified product evidence.

RankProviderBest fitScore

BVNKA platform buys an API, a hosted fiat +...Top ranked

Whose Licence the Platform Operates Under — 8/10Trade-off: The balance a platform sees in the BVNK portal after a conversion is not necessarily...

80score

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BVNK · bvnk.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

Bridge.xyzA platform buys Bridge's Orchestration...

Settlement Finality and Failure Handling — 9/10Trade-off: The float is the thing to read before signing, and the disclosure quality is inverted...

78score

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Bridge.xyz · bridge.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

Tied for #2 · ordered by name, A to Z

Circle Payments NetworkA platform buys a single API into Circl...

Where the Platform's Float Legally Sits — 7/10Trade-off: The licences a platform thinks it is buying into are not held by the entity it contra...

78score

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Circle Payments Network · circle.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

Zero HashA platform buys a single API contract u...

Whose Licence the Platform Operates Under — 8/10Trade-off: You cannot find out where your money sits, and the one number you can find does not s...

73score

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Zero Hash · zerohash.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

dLocalA platform buys the emerging-market las...

Published Wholesale Price — 5/10Trade-off: Your balance with dLocal is a trade payable, not a custodied asset, and dLocal never...

67score

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dLocal · dlocal.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

Conduit PayConduit sells a platform wholesale cros...

Where the Platform's Float Legally Sits — 5/10Trade-off: The Money Transmission Agreement a US platform signs contains a reverse-solicitation...

63score

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Conduit Pay · conduitpay.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.

Ranking blindCommercial terms excludedDated primary sources

Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/25/25/20, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18, ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores

Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
Scored by Where the Platform's Float Legally Sits · 30% (BVNK 5/10, Bridge.xyz 5/10, Circle Payments Network 7/10)
Regulatory failure: no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.
Scored by Whose Licence the Platform Operates Under · 25% (BVNK 8/10, Bridge.xyz 7/10, Circle Payments Network 7/10)
Execution failure: you get a worse price, later, or nothing.
Scored by Settlement Finality and Failure Handling · 20% (BVNK 8/10, Bridge.xyz 9/10, Circle Payments Network 6/10)

Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Insolvency failure, Exit failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.

Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Published Wholesale Price (25%).

Audit

Infrastructure

Methodology

2026.11.1

published 10 November 2026

Providers tracked

860+

across 121 categories

Last verified

28 September 2026

newest dated pricing or sentiment read

Named on the roster

2 people

managing directors · 6 automated processes

Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on where the platform's float legally sits, published wholesale price, whose licence the platform operates under, and settlement finality and failure handling, in that order. THE PRICING PAGE HAS BEEN RETIRED AS A CATEGORY, and the failure mode is identical at all seven. bridge.xyz/pricing 404s while the docs pricing page reads in full 'Please reach out to sales@bridge.xyz to discuss pricing.' circle.com/pricing returns HTTP 301 to /contact/partner — Circle redirects the word 'pricing' straight to a sales form — and /cpn/pricing and developers.circle.com/cpn/pricing both 404. rain.xyz/pricing 301s to the homepage, and it is a configured redirect rather than a soft 404 because an unknown path still returns 404. conduit.financial/pricing 301s to conduitpay.com/pricing, which 404s. dlocal.com/pricing/ 404s. bvnk.com/pricing 404s. Zerohash's docs page actually TITLED 'Pricing' consists of one sentence: 'Speak to a zerohash representative directly to engage in pricing discussions.' Not one provider scores above 6 on published price; the pool mean is 4.9. This is an absence the tranche proved rather than assumed: 262 Bridge documentation pages via llms.txt, 953,566 bytes of BVNK docs, 98 v1 plus 366 v2 Conduit doc pages, dLocal's full 22-URL sitemap and 47KB docs index, and the 28-page CPN white paper were all swept, and no basis-point figure for the scored product appears on any of them.

Whose name is on the account holding your float, and what happens to it if the provider fails?

What is the all-in cost, and can you learn any of it without a sales call?

Can you operate under this provider’s licences, or do you still need your own?

When a converted payout is returned, who bears the exchange-rate movement?

Strong starting point

The #1 overall and the scoring weights

BVNKData checked Sep 2026

A platform buys an API, a hosted fiat + stablecoin wallet it holds a balance in, and an agency conversion desk that turns EUR/GBP/USD into USDC/USDT/EURC and pays out — either to stablecoin addresses globally or onto USD/EUR/GBP bank rails (ACH, FedWire, FedNow, RTP, SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT) from virtual accounts. The strongest verified thing is the regulatory and timing disclosure: FCA FRN 901057 resolves on the FCA's own e-money register file (as at 27 September 2026, read on 28 September 2026), and the docs publish a genuine per-rail cut-off-time table rather than an 'instant' adjective. The weakest verified thing is price — the rate card does not exist, and the one pricing surface that carries figures is a backward-looking MiCA transparency feed rather than an offer. BVNK also publishes a dated MiCA historic-transactions feed, now at /eu/historic-transactions (the former /mt-mt/ path 301-redirects there), from which realised round-trip conversion cost is derivable. On 28 September 2026 the feed carried 60 pairs, every one dated 27 September 2026 and attributed to 'System Pay Services (Malta)', and its rates work out (our arithmetic, not a BVNK figure) to about 4.4 bps round trip for USD/USDC, 39.7 bps for USD/USDT and 64.7 bps for EUR/USDC, on volumes as thin as EUR 889.42 (EUR to USDC): one-day averages across all clients, not an offer. Strongest on whose licence the platform operates under (8/10): BVNK's UK entity is an FCA-authorised Electronic Money Institution, reference 901057, which the FCA e-money register lists; a US table gives per-state licence numbers under NMLS 2531294. What a platform must hold itself is left to merchants@bvnk.com, and the Malta entry reads 'Authorised Person ID: NOB'. Weakest on where the platform's float legally sits (5/10): BVNK's custody policy says client crypto-assets are kept beyond its creditors' reach, but it may pool them in an omnibus wallet and names no sub-custodian; its MSA safeguards fiat in segregated accounts with an unnamed banking partner. No attestation of client balances is published. Published price: No forward-looking wholesale price is published; one backward-looking rate disclosure is. (A) THE FEE-TYPE SURFACE.

Best forWhose Licence the Platform Operates Under — 8/10

Main tradeoffThe balance a platform sees in the BVNK portal after a conversion is not necessarily custodied money, and BVNK disclaims the counterparty risk behind it. The Order Execution Policy states: 'If your wallet or nominated account is credited with crypto-assets or funds prior to final settlement, those crypto-assets or funds are not custodied crypto-assets or funds until final settlement has occurred, as set out in the Client Agreement' and 'Where settlement does not occur due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of BVNK, including as a result of any action or inaction of the Execution Partner(s), BVNK may use reasonable endeavours to reverse the transaction.' The MSA makes the legal character of that window explicit — such claims 'constitute unsecured contractual claims against BVNK' (Section D clause 3.4) — and then removes the recourse: 'BVNK shall have no liability whatsoever for any act, omission, failure, delay, error or insolvency of any BVNK Liquidity Partner' (clause 12.2.1.3), with total liability otherwise capped, per clause 12.3.1, at 'the Fees paid and payable by you to us in the twelve (12) month period prior to the date on which the relevant claim(s) arose'. So a platform running material float across conversions is taking unsecured exposure to execution partners it cannot see named, during a window BVNK's own marketing describes as fully protected. The second thing to know before signing: the 'Move money across 130+ countries' claim is stablecoin reach, not local-rail reach. The product page's own sub-claim is 'Pay into stablecoin wallet addresses globally. No need for local bank accounts', and the fiat currency table in the docs lists exactly three codes — USD, EUR, GBP — so the last mile in most of those countries is a stablecoin wallet address and the recipient, not BVNK, solves the off-ramp. Added during verification, a third: token availability is jurisdictional. The payouts page promises 'We automatically convert to USDC, USDT or EURC for the final payout', but the docs currencies reference splits by customer jurisdiction and the EEA tab lists no USDT at all — a platform contracting with the Maltese entity for EEA customers gets USDC, EURC and USDG only. Title verified 13 August 2026 against the contract itself: the answer DIFFERS by leg — read which entity and which asset class you are contracting for. "All Digital Assets we receive from you are held in pooled client asset wallets belonging to BVNK. As such, all Digital Assets received into Digital Asset Wallets belong to BVNK with BVNK only owing a corresponding liability to you for any Digital Assets received." (https://storage.pardot.com/1013952/1758622259wCNEN1Qi/BVNK_Master_Services_Agreement_Section_D_Service_Schedule_2_Digital_A.pdf) "All fiat funds we receive from you are held in omnibus accounts owned and controlled by BVNK. When fiat funds are deposited into a Fiat Virtual Account, BVNK holds such funds as custodian for your benefit, and you are the beneficial owner of such funds. Subject to the foregoing, you do not own or control the Fiat Virtual Account(s)." (https://storage.pardot.com/1013952/1758622259wCNEN1Qi/BVNK_Master_Services_Agreement_Section_D_Service_Schedule_2_Digital_A.pdf)

Verify before signupNo forward-looking wholesale price is published; one backward-looking rate disclosure is. (A) THE FEE-TYPE SURFACE. BVNK's MiCA Pricing Policy at https://www.bvnk.com/eu/pricing-policy (fetched 28 September 2026, HTTP 200; the former /mt-mt/ path now 301-redirects here) names fee types without figures. Verbatim on that page: "BVNK provides wallet services for the custody of your crypto-assets at no cost." and internal transfers "are also provided free of charge." On conversion: "When you buy, sell, or convert crypto-assets, the fees are included in the "Conversion All-in Exchange Rate".", made up of a "BVNK Rate" ("A stable, blended rate we source from global and regional exchanges, market makers, and OTC desks") and a "Commercial Fee" ("A pre-agreed percentage and/or fixed amount added to the BVNK Rate, as agreed with you."). On payments: "For sending or receiving crypto-assets to or from an external wallet (outside the BVNK platform), we will charge a percentage and/or fixed fee. These fees may be tiered, meaning higher volumes can result in lower rates." Standing charges are named but unquantified: "Onboarding Fee", "Monthly Platform Fee" and "Minimum Monthly Commitment (MMC) Fee". The page carves the fiat leg out: "It does not cover fees related to our fiat (e-money) account or related payment services." (B) BACKWARD-LOOKING REALISED RATES. BVNK's MiCA post-trade table at https://www.bvnk.com/eu/historic-transactions (HTTP 200) loads its rows from https://layer1-nine.vercel.app/api/exchange (fetched 28 September 2026, HTTP 200, "source": "BVNK MICA Conversion Data", 60 pairs, every one dated 27 September 2026 and attributed to "System Pay Services (Malta)"). Worked arithmetic from that feed (our calculation, not a BVNK figure): USD to USDC 1.0000102071078119 and USDC to USD 0.999549003949991 = about 4.4 bps round trip; USD to USDT 0.9965791706957736 and USDT to USD 0.999453566993373 = about 39.7 bps; EUR to USDC 1.1382780760928224 and USDC to EUR 0.8728328648314118 = about 64.7 bps. These are one-day averages of realised conversions across all clients, each paying a separately negotiated Commercial Fee, on volumes as thin as EUR 889.42 (EUR to USDC) and EUR 7,559.20 (USD to USDC); they move sharply from day to day (the August 2026 read of the same feed implied much lower USD/USDT and EUR/USDC round trips) and are not an offer. (C) STILL NO FIGURE FOR the per-payout fee, the onboarding fee, the monthly platform fee, the MMC, any tier threshold, or any fiat rail (ACH, FedWire, FedNow, RTP, SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT). https://www.bvnk.com/pricing returns HTTP 404 (28 September 2026). The Master Service Agreement at https://agreements.bvnk.com/Client_Master_Agreement.pdf (HTTP 200, "Version 1/Feb 26") still defers every number to "Section E (Commercial Terms)", which is not in the public PDF.

Weighted criteria

Where the Platform's Float Legally Sits30%

Published Wholesale Price25%

Whose Licence the Platform Operates Under25%

Settlement Finality and Failure Handling20%

Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Reviewed on where the platform's float legally sits, published wholesale price, whose licence the platform operates under, and settlement finality and failure handling.

The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.

Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing settlement

What does wholesale stablecoin settlement actually cost?

No provider here publishes enough for a buyer to answer that without a sales call. The page Zero Hash titles "Pricing" reads in full: "Speak to a zerohash representative directly to engage in pricing discussions." Rain’s pricing page has been retired — rain.xyz/pricing returns a 301 to the homepage, confirmed as a configured redirect because an unknown path still 404s. Circle names the fee sources precisely and attaches no figure to any of them, and bridge.xyz/pricing, conduitpay.com/pricing, dlocal.com/pricing and bvnk.com/pricing all 404. The most useful number in the pool is BVNK’s MiCA-mandated table of historic average conversion rates, which is an execution record rather than a price list: it tells you what other platforms were charged, not what you will be.

Where does my float legally sit, and what happens if the provider fails?

Ask which ENTITY you are signing with before you ask which bank it uses, because in this pool the same brand answers the ownership question two opposite ways. BVNK, the highest-ranked provider here, states in its US Service Schedule that digital assets "belong to BVNK with BVNK only owing a corresponding liability to you", adding that "in the unlikely event that we become insolvent your funds will not be protected" — while its Malta agreement says the opposite, that "title to the relevant Digital Assets shall at all times remain with you and shall not transfer to us or any company in the BVNK Group". Its marketing page says "If we, or any of our partners, were ever to become insolvent, your money is protected." Bridge takes title from everyone: "When we receive funds or Digital Assets for your Order, title to those funds or Digital Assets transfers to Bridge upon receipt", in both its US and EEA terms. It names Banking Circle only to warn that the Master Account "may be frozen, blocked, or seized, in whole or in part, without prior notice" on opposition by its own third-party creditors, and its US and Rest-of-World terms both promise the bank is identified in an "Exhibit E" whose document stops at Exhibit D. Zero Hash, Circle, Conduit Pay and Rain all leave title with the platform — Zero Hash in terms, that "Title to your Digital Assets and Fiat Currency shall at all times remain with you", and Conduit Pay that its internal movements "do not transfer beneficial ownership of Client-attributed value to Conduit". One trap survives almost every contract here: money mid-conversion is nobody’s custodied asset, and BVNK is explicit that such claims "constitute unsecured contractual claims against BVNK". dLocal publishes no platform contract at all, and its FY2025 20-F contains zero instances of "custodian", "trust account" or "client money".

Does "instant" mean anything here?

Read the cut-off, not the adjective. Conduit Pay is one of the few vendors that publishes a real one — "all United States Dollar (USD) to USD ETFs must be initiated no later than 11:00 am U.S. Eastern Time Zone (ET) in order to be sent the same day" — and it still scores 2 out of 10 on this axis, because the documented behaviour contradicts what its homepage promises. On documentation alone it would score 7-8. Bridge scores highest at 9, publishing a per-rail cut-off table, a 2026-2027 holiday calendar, a 60-day return window and a five-step return-address resolution order, and it is held off 10 by the one silence that is perfectly universal here: not one of the seven states who bears the exchange-rate movement when a converted cross-border payout comes back.

Reviewed28 September 2026Method4 criteriaCategorystablecoin_settlement

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