**[Programmable Privacy Network Aleo Network Officially Joins Global Dollar Network (GDN)]** According to official news, the Aleo Network Foundation has officially joined the Global Dollar Network (GDN), a stablecoin alliance initiated by Paxos, becoming the first privacy-preserving Layer-1 blockchain to join GDN. GDN brings together multiple institutional participants, including Robinhood, Worldpay, Standard Chartered, Kraken, and Anchorage Digital, aiming to establish an interoperable, secure, and compliant ecosystem for the issuance and distribution of the USDG stablecoin. Aleo is a public blockchain designed for private payments, with its unique zero-knowledge proof infrastructure enabling payment processes to be both programmable and confidential. By joining GDN, Aleo will provide technical support for expanding USDG into privacy-sensitive payment scenarios within a compliant framework. This move also opens new growth opportunities for institutional and developer-level applications, making blockchain more viable in data-sensitive and privacy-critical use cases.