Every chain needs stablecoins. But for most blockchain builders, bridged stablecoins are a passive asset; they sit in wallets and liquidity pools while the yield they generate flows to external parties, not back into the ecosystem that worked to attract them.

Ankr and Lucid are changing that.

Ankr has partnered with Lucid Labs to bring Nebula, Lucid's chain-owned liquidity infrastructure, to Ankr's Scaling Solutions clients. Any project that builds a chain with Ankr can now launch and whitelist stablecoins on Nebula, turning them into yield-bearing assets that generate recurring revenue for the chain itself.

Ankr Scaling Solutions x Lucid Integration

Ankr's Scaling Services give developers everything they need to launch and operate any custom blockchain, whether that's an L2 rollup, L3 app chain, or independent L1, across leading stacks including OP Stack, ZK Stack, Agglayer CDK, and Fluent. Ankr handles engineering, infrastructure, and operations end-to-end. And now, every chain built on Ankr has a direct path to activating Nebula, turning stablecoin liquidity into a productive, chain-owned asset from day one.

"We’re excited to work with Ankr to drive adoption of Lucid assets across the ecosystem, from new chain launches to existing dApp migrations. Together, we’re well positioned to drive meaningful impact and create sustainable revenue streams for teams, supporting a healthier, more sustainable ecosystem." Anthony Broderick, Founder at Lucid Labs.

What Lucid's Nebula Does

Nebula is Lucid's native yield layer for stablecoin liquidity, enabling ecosystems to transform idle USDC and USDT into revenue-generating, chain-owned liquidity. Nebula's stablecoins, L-USDC and L-USDT, are the first bridge-agnostic, natively yield-generating versions of USDC and USDT designed for cross-chain ecosystems.

When a user bridges USDC or USDT to a Nebula-integrated chain, they receive L-USDC or L-USDT, wrapped versions that behave identically in any DeFi context, but generate yield in the background. That yield flows back to the chain's foundation as monthly recurring revenue, automatically, with no active management required.

With Nebula, you can launch your own branded stablecoin that behaves just like L-USDC/L-USDT and is bridge-agnostic, yield-generating, and fully compatible withx402 and EIP-3009 standards.

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How It Works

Each Nebula asset has a dedicated lock contract holding native USDC or USDT on the chosen lock chain. Nebula deposits 90% of collateral into savings protocols like Aave to generate yield, keeping the remaining 10% on-chain as an immediate withdrawal buffer. The yield is real and auditable, not dependent on token emissions.

When a user bridges in, USDC travels to the lock chain, collateral gets registered, and L-USDC is minted on the destination chain in one flow. Redemption works in reverse. Yield is calculated monthly based on how long L-stables remained on each chain, and payouts are sent directly to a foundation-provided wallet. Foundations do not need to run any infrastructure.

What This Unlocks for Ankr x Lucid Clients

Before Nebula, stablecoin TVL on a new chain was generating yield for someone else. A chain with $50M in stablecoin TVL at a conservative 4-5% Aave yield is now passively generating $2-2.5M annually for its own treasury, capital that can fund liquidity programs, developer grants, or be distributed to users.

Stables deployed with Nebula are fully composable with DeFi. DEXs, lending markets, and protocols can whitelist and integrate L-stables, creating a unified liquidity anchor for the entire ecosystem. Users earn yield while putting their stablecoins to work.

Security

Nebula's core contracts have been independently audited by Olympix and Halborn, and are protected by Hypernative's continuous real-time monitoring. Additional safeguards include multisig-controlled permissions, emergency withdrawal capabilities, and active monitoring of DeFi utilization during volatile conditions.

The Bigger Picture

Nebula is the first system to fully productize chain-owned liquidity and make it widely accessible to foundations, L2s, L3s, and app chains. Ankr clients have access to that infrastructure from day one. Chains that grow sustainably attract TVL and capture value from it. This partnership gives builders the tools to do exactly that.

Interested in launching a chain with Ankr and activating Nebula for chain-owned liquidity? Contact the Ankr team to learn more: sales@asphere.xyz