The Stellar Development Foundation’s flagship annual conference, Movantis, the unified financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move value across global markets, announced an integration with the Stellar network.
The collaboration adds the Stellar network as an additional digital settlement rail within Movantis’s architecture. The Stellar network accelerates the digital settlement leg, while Movantis leverages its connections to regulated local infrastructure and partners for liquidity, fiat conversion where needed, and last-mile payout.
For Movantis, the integration is part of a broader multi-rail strategy. Traditional banking infrastructure, local payment systems and digital settlement rails each play a role, giving the platform greater flexibility and resilience across markets. The Stellar network provides an additional blockchain rail for digital settlement, while Movantis connects that settlement layer with regulated markets and local payout infrastructure.
The first planned use case will focus on movement of value from the United States to El Salvador. Through its regulated subsidiaries, Movantis plans to use USDC on the Stellar network as the settlement leg, with local partners supporting conversion and last-mile payout. As a dollarized economy, El Salvador is a natural starting point: value settles in USDC and is paid out to recipients in US dollars, with no additional currency exposure along the way.
For businesses and end users, the blockchain layer stays behind the scenes. They continue to use familiar currencies and payment experiences, while the settlement leg runs 24/7, including weekends and holidays. That can reduce the capital remittance companies and businesses need to keep prefunded in the corridor.
The integration is also designed to work in the other direction. Businesses operating on the Stellar network will be able to reach recipients in Latin America through Movantis, settling in stablecoins and paying out locally. Remittance companies, fintechs and wallets will be able to access the corridor through the same Movantis integration they already use for other markets.
“Cross-border payments do not need one winning rail. They need infrastructure that can use the right rail for each leg of the transaction,” said Robert Gatto, Chief Revenue Officer of Movantis. “Stellar gives us another efficient way to settle, and our job is making sure that speed turns into dollars a business or a family can actually use in El Salvador.”
“Movantis has spent two decades building local partnerships and payout networks designed to make cross-border payments work across the Americas, and that is exactly the kind of foundation the Stellar network was built to support,” said Jose Fernandez da Ponte, President and Chief Growth Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation. “Integrating the Stellar network as a settlement option, starting with the U.S.-to-El Salvador corridor, is designed to support faster and more efficient settlement for the businesses and people who rely on these flows every day.”
Digital rails are new. Moving money across borders is not. For more than 20 years, Movantis has done the hard part in some of the most complex markets in the Americas: procuring licenses and building the local partnerships, liquidity and last-mile payout that make cross-border payments work. Today, its network moves more than $60 billion a year across more than 200 million transactions and over 90,000 payout locations. The Stellar network now plugs into that foundation.
Beyond El Salvador, Movantis expects the architecture to support additional B2B and consumer flows, including for businesses in Europe, Asia and across Latin America that want to operate in the region through a single integration. The goal is not to replace existing rails, but to add another settlement option to Movantis’s multi-rail infrastructure through Institutional Stablecoin Settlement, which gives companies one integration to collect, convert, settle and pay out across Latin America, in fiat or stablecoin.
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