What if money could move at the speed of light? This isn’t a thought experiment, but a reality that has emerged over the last few years with the explosive growth of stablecoins – a market that has increased from $5 billion to over $225 billion in just five years. It's quite obvious by now that stablecoins are crypto’s killer app, and now, they’re getting a Noble home built just for them. 

Today, we’re introducing Noble AppLayer, a new ecosystem of permissionless stablecoin-native applications. Built with Celestia underneath, Noble Applayer is a high-throughput EVM network with the scale required to make stablecoins a core part of everyday life. The Noble AppLayer is a platform where developers can build a new class of financial tools leveraging reliable and safe stablecoin infrastructure and support a new class of applications that are borderless, permissionless and profoundly inclusive.

Our thesis is simple: we believe that stablecoins will be at the source of thousands of successful applications – payments, foreign exchange, lending, remittances and trading, to name a few – and the Noble AppLayer is poised to be a the go-to destination for deploying and using these stablecoin-native applications. Stablecoins will power digital economies as fluid and open as the internet itself, and Noble’s issuance and liquidity infrastructure will be an indispensable enabler of this goal. 

Background

Since Noble’s inception two years ago, we’ve built and continued to optimize stablecoin issuance infrastructure that enables the seamless transfer of assets across a fragmented and disparate landscape of multichain applications. Our story began in late 2023 when we launched native USDC in the Cosmos ecosystem. We made a name for ourselves by being a reliable partner to stablecoin and Real World Asset (RWA) issuers that wanted to go native across dozens of sovereign blockchains. Since inception, we’ve succeeded in that mission and facilitated over $8 billion of transaction volume across over 50 blockchain applications in the modular ecosystem. 

We’ve maintained an intense focus on keeping the Noble blockchain as minimalistic as possible as it relates to its architecture and software design. This focus allowed us to optimize Noble for issuance and interoperability without any extraneous clutter. This meant that Noble would always have extremely fast network upgrades, be optimized for cross-chain liquidity routing, and hold a robust security position given the narrow surface area afforded by the lack of smart contracts and DeFi. Noble is, and proudly remains, a Cosmos SDK appchain that leverages CometBFT/Tendermint for consensus and IBC/CCTP for interoperability. 

Yet, with this intense focus on security and minimalism, we’ve made a tradeoff around programmability and ecosystem innovation. Without a Virtual Machine (VM) on Noble, or any support for smart contracts, Noble hasn’t fulfilled its ultimate ambition – to be a home for the next generation of permissionless stablecoin applications. Every day, we meet developers that are looking to onboard the world to crypto in a meaningful and tangible way with stablecoins. We envision the Noble AppLayer as a perfect home for these builders, where we are designing not just for code, but for real people all over the world – for the billions of people who experience currency devaluation, for those forced to rely on broken banking infrastructure, for those who just want to experiment on the next big stablecoin-enabled application. 

Introducing the Noble AppLayer with Celestia Underneath

In Summer 2025, the Noble AppLayer will launch as an EVM-compatible rollup leveraging the Celestia technology stack. Our ambition is 100ms blocktimes with high throughput and scalability needed to realize the vision for a stablecoin platform that is used by millions of people. With Celestia offering best in class data availability infrastructure and multi purpose VMs to bring massive scalability, we will unlock Noble’s cross-ecosystem potential as EVM applications continue to seek reliable and seamless access to native stablecoin liquidity. By building with Celestia, Noble’s core issuance service will be available to hundreds of additional crypto applications, and Noble’s AppLayer will be seamlessly integrated with a number of blue chip DeFi projects born in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Importantly, Noble Dollar (USDN), the yield bearing stablecoin we launched a month ago (and which has grown to over $60 million of issuance in this short period of time!) will be a key element of the Noble AppLayer and our foray into the Celestia ecosystem. By default, the Noble AppLayer will come ready with composable liquidity at scale via the unique properties of USDN, which will kick off a virtuous flywheel where USDN can proliferate to thousands of cross-ecosystem application developers. 

We believe that stablecoins will continue to grow in a profound way – from deeper liquidity, to novel economic designs, to market penetration of non-USD stablecoins – and the Noble AppLayer is positioned to be the best  platform for builders to tap into deep stablecoin liquidity. 

Stay tuned for updates as we plan to launch this summer. In the meantime, if you're building an EVM application that leverages stablecoins please reach out on Discord and follow us on X!