Odaily Planet Daily News Cryptocurrency payment provider Stellar is connecting to Polkadot and Kusama through the newly built Spacewalk bridge. This move will connect the two blockchain ecosystems with Stellar’s ​​fiat currency deposit and withdrawal channels. Created by recent Polkadot parachain auction winner Pendulum, the bridge aims to connect DeFi applications with the FX market, especially in emerging markets. Since its founding in 2014, Stellar has built related businesses and partnered with cross-border payments company MoneyGram and others. According to Pendulum co-founder and CTO Torsten Stüber, the Spacewalk bridge is now running on Kusama, and a Polkadot version will be available in one to two weeks. USDC will be the primary stablecoin used on the bridge. Tomer Weller, vice president of product at the Stellar Development Foundation, said that in the future, it will also support a series of regional currency stablecoins, including tokenized versions of the Argentine peso, Brazilian real and Kenyan shilling, as well as some other African stablecoins and some based on Euro stablecoin. (CoinDesk)