In a spicy little Twitter one-upmanship that's lighting up Solana timelines today, Brian Long (the man behind Wormhole, Pyth, and a bunch of other critical infrastructure) dropped a clean, sharp prediction:

Prediction: In the not too distant future, forex transfer companies like Wise, will use @solana for their backend swap rails.

Stepan Simkin, CEO of Squads Protocol and the builder behind Altitude, saw that and basically said "cute" before swinging for the fences:

Prediction: In the not too distant future, most global businesses will use @altitude on @solana to run their financial operations entirely on stablecoin rails.

That's not just swapping fiat anymore — that's whole treasuries, payrolls, vendor payments, FX hedging, and yield generation, all living natively on-chain with USDC, EURC, and whatever stablecoins come next.

For anyone still thinking "stablecoins are just for degens trading memes," this exchange is the wake-up call. The grown-ups have entered the chat, and they're talking about replacing the actual plumbing of global finance.

So what actually is Altitude?

It's the product Squads quietly (and then not-so-quietly) shipped earlier this year: a self-custodied, stablecoin-native business account that gives companies real USD and EUR accounts without ever touching a traditional bank.

You deposit USDC or EURC, you get a proper IBAN-like experience, you earn ~5% yield on idle balances (currently from validated RWA strategies), you pay anyone in 150+ countries instantly, you convert between currencies 24/7 at interbank rates, and everything is protected by Squads multisig + passkeys/biometrics.

No SWIFT delays. No weekend cutoffs. No "we'll get back to you in 3-5 business days." Just money that moves at internet speed with crypto security.

And because it's built on Solana — which already holds north of $13 billion in stablecoins and processes transactions for pennies — the economics finally make sense even for companies doing millions in monthly volume.

The replies to Stepan's tweet say it all you need to know about sentiment right now:

"TCP/IP seemed niche until it ate telecom. History will repeat itself with the stablecoins this time."

Another: "I believe in the @altitude too"

Even Brian Long himself: "Nice!"

When the people who actually built half of Solana's core infrastructure are this publicly bullish, you pay attention.

We're not talking about another dog coin pumping 100x. We're talking about the boring, unsexy, multi-trillion-dollar corporate treasury and cross-border payments market finally getting the crypto treatment — and Solana eating it from the inside out.

If Stepan is right (and the smart money is betting he is), the next bull run won't just be driven by memes and retail speculation.

It'll be fueled by thousands of legitimate businesses quietly moving their entire balance sheet on-chain because it saves them millions in fees and actually pays them to hold their operating cash.

The thread that started it all: https://x.com/SimkinStepan/status/1992966215392956500

Welcome to the part of the cycle where the real-world money shows up.