A garden grows
when you tend it together.

Think of the Cardano ecosystem as a garden. Every protocol, every institution, every builder is a plant in this garden. Some are seedlings, some are mature. But no plant thrives without water. In our ecosystem, liquidity is that water. Without it, even the most innovative protocols wilt. Lending markets cannot offer competitive rates. RWA markets plateau. Institutional capital watches from the sidelines.

The USDM DeFi Coalition exists because we recognized a fundamental truth: no single institution can irrigate the entire garden alone. But together, by coordinating our capital and our efforts, we can create the conditions for everything in this garden to flourish. This is not a competition between protocols. This is infrastructure that lifts every boat.

On March 9, 2026, the Coalition launched its pilot with four founding partners — Plomin Legacy Fund, NBX, Fluid, and Wave Financial — deploying 110,000 USDM into Fluid’s lending markets on Cardano. NBX, as a publicly listed Norwegian exchange, published the launch on the Oslo Børs.

Within 24 hours, an organic, non-coalition lender deployed an additional 55,000 USDM — the market validating the thesis on day one. By the end of the first month, total value locked had grown by over 1,100%, BlockSign had joined as the fifth partner, and the Coalition had executed its first data-driven capital reallocation, moving liquidity from saturated fGLD pools into the higher-demand SNEK, NIGHT, and WMTX markets.

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“Aligned capital” is a deliberate alternative to the dominant DeFi liquidity model — mercenary mining, where capital chases the highest emissions and abandons a protocol the moment incentives end. Aligned capital is the opposite stance:

• Long-term commitment. Coalition partners deploy capital with the expectation of staying — not extracting and leaving.
• Public deployment. Every partner deploys on-chain, publicly, traceable. No silent sourcing of yield.
• Coordinated, not competitive. Partners coordinate where capital is deployed so the ecosystem benefits as a whole — deeper markets, tighter spreads, more sustained borrower activity.
• Ecosystem-aligned. We invest where we build. Cardano-native, in service of Cardano-native protocols.

The Coalition is a coordination layer, not a hierarchy and not a DAO. There is no token, no voting, no on-chain governance vote. Each partner retains full independence — over their brand, their messaging, and their capital decisions. What we share is a commitment to deploying capital productively and transparently within the Cardano ecosystem.

See the full DApp selection criteria on /join. Public principles and audit links live on /transparency.

• Non-custodial relationships. The Coalition does not hold partner capital. Each partner deploys directly into non-custodial smart contracts (primarily Fluid). Coalition coordination is over deployment strategy and reporting, not custody.
• Coalition-as-coordination-layer. The Coalition is not a legal entity that holds funds, makes investments, or takes positions. It is an administrative coordination layer between independent partners.
• USDM is issued by Moneta Digital. NBX is co-issuer. Neither is the Coalition itself. Reserve attestations and compliance posture are Moneta’s responsibility — see /transparency.
• Not investment advice. Playbooks describe strategies. They are not recommendations. See /risks.