Space Finance: Low Earth Orbit Reshapes Global Settlements

Amazon’s Project Kuiper has launched the first orbital settlement layer:

🛰️ Cross-border crypto payments now clear in 0.1 seconds, compared to 0.25 via fiber optics
☄️ Space-based stablecoins evade geopolitical censorship
🚀 Breakthrough: plasma reentry tech enables chip and vaccine raw materials to be stored in orbit, with cargo drop errors under 30 meters

Sovereignty Vacuum

With financial infrastructure operating above the Kármán Line, SWIFT becomes a relic of Earth-bound bureaucracy. Space is the new offshore, where latency, surveillance, and legal jurisdiction no longer obey gravity.