Blog

  • Blockchain Speed and Cost Comparisons

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin

    We’re sharing observations about the cost and speed of using different blockchains for stablecoin payments based on real world usage.

  • Announcing Support for Optimism

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Cody Lambert

    Brale now enables businesses to create stablecoins and digital assets on Optimism. Optimism is a low fee layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum.

  • Announcing Support for Base

    2 min read
    Chase Merlin
    Ben Milne
    Michael McAllister

    Brale now enables businesses to create stablecoins and digital assets on Base. Base is a low-fee layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum supported by the Coinbase ecosystem.

  • Announcing Support for Stellar

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Michael McAllister

    Brale now enables businesses to create stablecoins and digital assets on Stellar. With Base and Treasury, institutions can more easily leverage Stellar’s low fees and compliance features in payments and financial applications.

  • Our Approach to Attestations

    1 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Ramin Wright
    Andrea Roy

    Monthly attestations of SBC and Glo Dollar are now available. We’re excited to share our approach for feedback.

  • Introducing Treasury

    3 min read
    Ben Milne
    Jared Dellitt
    Michael McAllister
    Kenny Miesner
    Chase Merlin
    Keenan Randolph
    Andrea Roy
    Ramin Wright
    Nixon Wegulo
    Cody Lambert

    Create multi-chain stablecoins backed by Brale’s treasury infrastructure in an hour. Automate reporting, treasury management, and attestations to support your stablecoin.

  • Announcing Support for Celo

    2 min read
    Chase Merlin
    Michael McAllister
    Ben Milne

    Brale now enables businesses to create stablecoins and digital assets on Celo. Celo is a low fee, carbon-negative blockchain optimized for mobile payments.

  • Tools for Testing Bespoke Stablecoins or Digital Assets

    3 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin

    Testing a new bespoke digital asset can be challenging. We’ve shared observations about how to use assets with self-custody wallets and custodians.

  • Base Beta

    1 min read
    Ben Milne
    Jared Dellitt
    Michael McAllister
    Kenny Miesner
    Chase Merlin
    Keenan Randolph
    Andrea Roy
    Ramin Wright
    Nixon Wegulo

    Introducing Base Beta - helping businesses create multi-chain digital assets in a few clicks. Support tokenized deposits, fractionalized real world assets, or other assets held at your institution.

  • The Brale Stable Coin (SBC) White Paper

    2 min read
    Chase Merlin
    Michael McAllister
    Ben Milne

    Stable Coin (SBC) is a fiat-backed stablecoin digital dollar developed and issued by Brale. Our white paper includes an overview of our approach and problems solved through its design.

  • Introducing Stable Coin, SBC

    7 min read
    Ben Milne
    Jared Dellitt
    Rocky Warren
    Michael McAllister
    Kenny Miesner
    Chase Merlin
    Arun Sondhi
    Andrea Roy
    Keenan Randolph
    Ramin Wright

    Introducing Stable Coin (SBC) - Brale’s fiat-backed digital dollar stablecoin. Following best-in-class practices in custody, transferability, and regulatory oversight.

  • New Capital

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Jared Dellitt
    Ramin Wright

    Brale has raised $11.1M in new capital to support initial development efforts of our products designed to reduce barriers to use and create digital assets.

  • Understanding Private Blockchains

    5 min read
    Chase Merlin
    Ben Milne
    Kenny Miesner

    Deploying assets on public blockchains poses privacy challenges for some institutions. We support both public and private blockchains with a focus on interoperability.

  • Abstracting Blockchain Gas Fees

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Kenny Miesner

    Managing wallets to hold the native currency of a blockchain to pay gas fees is a challenging hurdle for the institutional adoption of DeFi. We’ve simplified the process by abstracting it from your everyday use of Brale’s products.

  • Brale Base

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Jared Dellitt
    Rocky Warren
    Michael McAllister
    Chase Merlin
    Kenny Miesner
    Arun Sondhi
    Andrea Roy
    Ramin Wright

    Base is the foundation for everything we do. It enables your institution to create and manage stablecoins on distributed protocols. It has everything you need to get started.

  • Blockchain Comparisons in a Payments Context

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Kenny Miesner
    Rocky Warren

    Going between Ethereum and Avalanche is far easier technically and less time-consuming than formatting an ACH file. Getting transaction costs in the range of relational databases on-chain is more complicated but still conceivable — consider 1M transactions at the cost of $0.000001 per transaction, which would result in a total cost of $1.

  • Context

    2 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Jared Dellitt
    Jami Milne
    Kenny Miesner
    Rocky Warren

    One of our early observations is that decentralized finance protocols are complicated for regulated entities to implement, slowing the adoption of DeFi protocols in traditional finance.

  • We Are Brale

    1 min read
    Ben Milne
    Chase Merlin
    Jared Dellitt
    Jami Milne
    Kenny Miesner
    Rocky Warren

    We believe in interrogating theories before solving, vetting great solutions before marketing, and proving products before selling. We believe products should speak for themselves when they are ready to do so.