Reconciliation starts long before someone checks a final balance.
Take a simple institutional flow:
A business sends stablecoins, converts into local currency and settles the proceeds to an approved bank account.
There are several things that have to stay connected through that process.
The amount received has to match the original instruction.
The conversion has to reflect the agreed rate and expected local-currency amount.
The payout has to go to the approved destination.
And the final settlement record has to match what actually arrived.
If any one of those points is off, “payment successful” does not tell the operations team enough. They need to know where the difference appeared.
Was it at funding?
Was it during conversion?
Was it in the payout?
Or does the settlement record simply not match the underlying movement?
That is why Ledig’s operating flow does not end at settlement.
Receive → Hold → Convert → Pay or Settle → Reconcile
The point is to keep the financial movement connected from the first instruction to the final record, so the business can trace what happened at each stage instead of trying to reconstruct it afterwards across separate systems.
For institutions moving between stablecoins and local currency, that connection between liquidity, conversion, settlement and reconciliation is a big part of the infrastructure itself.
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