Falcon Finance Unveils Ambitious Roadmap and Reaches 1B in USDf Circulating Supply
Falcon Finance today released its strategic roadmap for the next 18 months, marking its evolution from a synthetic-dollar innovator into a full-service financial institution that seamlessly connects traditional banking, centralized crypto and decentralized finance.
Since its launch earlier this year, Falcon has reached $1 billion in USDf circulating supply, earning a place among Ethereum's top ten stablecoins by market cap, completed the industry's first live mint of USDf against Superstate's tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, and secured a 116 percent over-collateralization audit from ht.digital.These milestones have established Falcon's reputation for institutional rigor and transparent risk management.
Building on that foundation, Falcon's priorities for the remainder of 2025 include opening regulated fiat corridors in Latin America, Turkey, the eurozone and additional dollar markets to ensure 24/7 USDf liquidity with sub-second settlement SLAs. A multichain deployment will bring USDf to leading Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, maximizing cross-chain capital efficiency for corporate treasuries and institutional trading desks.
At the same time, Falcon will form partnerships with licensed custodians and payment agents to introduce bankable USDf products, overnight yield cash-management solutions, tokenized money-market funds and physical gold redemption services. Concurrent discussions with U.S. and international regulators aim to secure licenses under the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts and align Falcon's offerings with Europe's MiCA framework.
Looking ahead to 2026, Falcon will deploy a modular real-world asset engine capable of onboarding corporate bonds, private credit and securitized USDf funds through SPV-backed structures. The protocol will expand into tokenized equities and USDf-centric investment vehicles on-chain, while developing bank-grade securitizations and licensed rails for automated yield distribution with institutional-level reporting. Falcon will also roll out expanded physical redemption services for gold and other high-value assets in key financial centers including the UAE, the broader MENA region and Hong Kong.
Andrei Grachev, Managing Partner at Falcon Finance, said 'Surpassing $1 billion in USDf supply, validating our reserves through third-party audits and delivering the first live RWA mint have proven our ability to marry compliance with innovation. Now, by extending our fiat rails across every major market, modularizing real-world asset tokenization and enabling seamless interoperability between TradFi and CeDeFi, we are creating the connective tissue of tomorrow's financial system. Falcon is building a single, programmable liquidity layer that serves both institutional treasuries and the next generation of decentralized applications.'
About Falcon Finance
Falcon Finance is building the infrastructure layer that connects capital, collateral, and composability across onchain and offchain financial systems. Our mission is to create a unified framework where institutions, protocols, and capital allocators can transform assets into usable liquidity - transparently, securely, and with strategic flexibility.
We enable the use of any yield-generating, custody-ready asset - whether crypto-native, tokenized real-world, or fiat-linked as enforceable collateral for issuing onchain liquidity and unlocking value across different financial domains.
By combining legal structure, composable mint/redeem logic, and modular liquidity pathways, Falcon allows capital to move between forms and contexts supporting onchain strategies, institutional deployment, and real-world settlement alike. Learn more: falcon.finance
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