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Stablecoin platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “stablecoin payments platform”, and as “stablecoin infrastructure provider”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
39%
Contested · Circle 14%
39BVNK14Circle10Bridge37others

39% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01BVNK39%0%40endorsed leader
02Circle14%3%36accepted challenger
03Fireblocks10%0%36accepted challenger
04Bridge10%0%28accepted challenger
05Stripe Crypto6%10%21accepted challenger
06Eco2%8%12accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07Paxos0%5%20accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
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01BVNK39%
02Circle14%
03Fireblocks10%
04Bridge10%
05Stripe Crypto6%
06Eco2%
07Paxos0%

What they warned about

Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
TerraUSD
100%
8 of 8 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 8 hard negative
“TerraUSD (UST) is the clearest failure example: it lost its peg and the Terra ecosystem collapsed. That design is a poor fit for money an enterprise needs to preserve” GPT-6 Luna, negative prompt
Tether
100%
7 of 7 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“**Recommendation**: Avoid for compliance-heavy ops; use only for short-term, low-value transfers with diversification.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
DAI
100%
4 of 4 labels negative · 4 of 14 models
“**High caution** | Crypto-backed, algorithmically managed; less capital efficient, exposure to volatility” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
USDT
80%
4 of 5 labels negative · 4 of 14 models
“Has faced regulatory scrutiny and was removed from some EU platforms ... due to MiCA compliance issues.” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

80 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1177 links across 263 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.

vendor site · Eco50 answers · 121 citations · 13 models
33 answers · 52 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Cobo30 answers · 33 citations · 12 models
29 answers · 30 citations · 12 models
vendor site · BVNK27 answers · 55 citations · 11 models
27 answers · 53 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Stripe27 answers · 46 citations · 12 models
vendor site · OSL27 answers · 33 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Fireblocks26 answers · 49 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Circle24 answers · 45 citations · 10 models
23 answers · 25 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Crossmint19 answers · 29 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best stablecoin payments platform”, “stablecoin payments platform”, “stablecoin platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
BVNK bvnk.com39%952,900814,0325
Circle circle.com
Circle 14%, Circle Payments Network 4%, Circle Mint 2%, Circle Payments Network Managed Payments 0%
20%88301,000242,52878,4928
Fireblocks fireblocks.com10%635,4005569,31718
Bridge bridge.xyz10%70246,000465,8883,449$1,713337
Stripe parent site
Stripe Crypto 6%
6%86823,000102,741
Notabene Flow notabene.id4%4
Eco eco.com2%4549,50061,65223,2361
USDC2%531
Coinbase Business coinbase.com2%221,000285,671,916$198689
OSL osl.com2%3

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 25 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cobo.com, coingape.com, crossmint.com, eco.com, stablecoininsider.org, stripe.com). The first result for “best stablecoin payments platform” is eco.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best stablecoin payments platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which stablecoin infrastructure provider would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade stablecoin platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best stablecoin payments platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a stablecoin payments platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which stablecoin platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Eco
Two alternativesBVNK, Circle
no first choiceChangedEco
Three alternativesBVNK, Circle, Fireblocks
BVNK
Four alternativesArc, Eco Routes, Plasma, Tempo
no first choiceagainst: TerraUSD, TrustToken, USDT
GPT-5.4 miniBVNK, Bridge
Three alternativesFireblocks, Request Finance, Zero Hash
CircleChanged
One alternativeFireblocks
Circle
Three alternativesBridge, Fireblocks, Stripe Crypto
Fireblocks
One alternativeCircle Payments Network Managed Payments
no first choiceagainst: TerraUSD
Gemini 3.5 FlashBridge
Three alternativesBVNK, Bitwave, Fipto
BVNKChanged
Three alternativesBridge, Circle, Paxos
Circle
Six alternativesBVNK, Bridge, Fireblocks, Paxos, Ripple, Zero Hash
Bridge, Stripe Crypto
Four alternativesBVNK, Circle Mint, Request Finance, VaultNow
no first choiceagainst: DAI, Ethena's USDe, Frax, Sky's USDS, Tether's USDT, USDD
Perplexity SonarBVNK
Three alternativesCobo, Eco, Fireblocks
BVNKHeld
Five alternativesBridge, Circle, Eco, Fireblocks, Stripe Crypto
BVNK, Fireblocks
Eight alternativesBridge, Circle, Cobo, Crossmint, Mural Pay, OSL BizPay, Paxos, Polygon Open Money Stack
BVNK
One alternativeOSL BizPay
against: Circle Payments Network, Stripe Crypto
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastCircle
Two alternativesBVNK, Stripe Crypto
against: Coinbase Commerce
CircleHeld
Three alternativesFireblocks, Paxos, Stripe Crypto
Circle, Paxos
Five alternativesAnchorage Digital, BVNK, Bridge, Crossmint, Fireblocks
against: Tether
BVNK
Two alternativesBridge, Eco
against: BitPay, Circle, Coinbase Commerce
Fireblocks
Two alternativesBVNK, Crossmint
against: Binance USD, Paxos, Tether
Mistral SmallBVNK, Notabene Flow
Two alternativesB2BinPay, OSL BizPay
FireblocksChanged
Two alternativesAnchorage Digital, Coinbase Business
Circle
Seven alternativesBVNK, Bastion, Cobo, Coinbase Custom Stablecoins, Fireblocks, Paxos, Zero Hash
Coinbase Business, OSL
One alternativeBinance Pay
no first choiceagainst: USDTagainst: Aave, Compound, DAI, TerraUSD
DeepSeek V4 FlashBVNK
Two alternativesBridge, Circle
BVNKHeld
Two alternativesCircle, Fireblocks
Circle
Six alternativesBVNK, Cobo, Fireblocks, Fuze Finance, Paxos, Zero Hash
against: Tether
Circle
Two alternativesBVNK, Bridge
against: BitPay, Stripe's standard stablecoin checkout, Triple-A
USDCagainst: BUSD, DAI, Elixir, IRON Finance, Stream Finance, TerraUSD, Tether
Llama 4 MaverickBVNK
Three alternativesB2BinPay, Noah, OSL BizPay
no first choiceChangedno first choiceNoah
Two alternativesCobo, Notabene Flow
Circle
Four alternativesCobo, Coinbase Business, Fireblocks, Stripe Crypto
against: USDS, USDe
Qwen 3.7 FlashNotabene Flow
Three alternativesBVNK, Circle, Eco
CircleChanged
Four alternativesAnchorage Digital, Bridge, Eco, Fireblocks
Circle
Five alternativesBridge, Paxos, PayPal, Ripple, Stripe Crypto
Stripe Crypto
Two alternativesDeel, Triple-A
no first choiceagainst: BlockFi, Celsius, FTX, TerraUSD
Kimi K2Circle
Three alternativesCoinbase Prime, Fireblocks, Ripple
FireblocksChanged
One alternativeCircle
Circle
Three alternativesFireblocks, Paxos, Ripple
against: Tether
BVNK, Circle Mint, Circle Payments Networkagainst: Coinbase Commerce / Coinbase Businessno first choiceagainst: Ampleforth, Binance USD, Frax, TerraUSD, Tether
GLM 4.7 FlashXBridge
Four alternativesBitPay, Infinite, Nuvei, Triple-A
BVNKChanged
Five alternativesBridge, Circle, Eco, Fireblocks, OSL
Circle
Eleven alternativesBVNK, BitPay, Bridge, Cobo, Coinbase Business, Fireblocks, Paxos, Ripple, Stablerail, Stripe Crypto, Zero Hash
against: Tether
BVNK
One alternativeCircle
against: BitPay, Coinbase Business
no first choiceagainst: BUSD, DAI, IRON, TUSD, USDC, USDT, UST
MiniMax M2.5BVNK
Three alternativesB2BinPay, Mesh, OSL BizPay
against: Eco
FireblocksChanged
Three alternativesBastion, Bridge, Paxos
no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: TerraUSD, USDT
GPT-6 LunaBVNK, Bridge
Three alternativesCircle Mint, Fireblocks, Stripe Crypto
BVNKChanged
One alternativeCircle's CPN Managed Payments
against: Stripe Crypto
Circle Mint
Seven alternativesBVNK, Bridge, Fireblocks, Mastercard, Paxos, Ripple Payments / RLUSD, Stripe Crypto
Stripe Crypto
Two alternativesBVNK, Circle Payments Network Managed Payments
no first choiceagainst: TerraUSD, USDC/Circle, USDT / Tether
Muse Glimmer 30BCircle Payments Network
Four alternativesBVNK, Bridge, Eco Routes, Fireblocks
BVNKChanged
Three alternativesCircle, Fuze Finance, Mural Pay
Circle – USDC / EURC, CCTP V2
Seven alternativesAnchorage Digital, Bridge, Copper, Eco Routes, Fireblocks, JPM Coin / Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Paxos
BVNK
Three alternativesBridge, Eco, Toku
no first choiceagainst: Binance USD BUSD, MakerDAO’s Dai DAI, Terra UST, Tether USDT, USDS, USDe
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:25yes1710 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:26yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:21yes2825 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:20yes183 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:34yes199 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:36yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:26yes2330 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:35yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:32yes527 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:29yes2525 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:19yes1317 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:24yes549 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:28yes618 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:22yes1421 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:24no03 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:24yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:24yes2025 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:20yes244 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:29yes2310 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:20yes198 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:19yes2425 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:27yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:32yes1056 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:19yes1730 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:37yes2024 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:27yes1336 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:36yes320 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:28yes2133 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:37yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:35yes66 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:22yes1828 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:42yes186 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:39yes2411 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:21yes89 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:42yes2324 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:39yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:30yes1446 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:30yes1950 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:35yes2338 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:25yes1428 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:24yes629 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:37yes2337 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:29yes179 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:38yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:37yes2027 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:39yes233 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:43yes1913 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:33yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:29yes2423 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:26yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:39yes1847 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:31yes2333 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:24yes2431 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:29yes1659 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:25yes524 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:31yes2333 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:32yes1718 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:28no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:37yes1225 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:21yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:33yes179 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:41no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:40yes2441 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:25yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:20no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:31yes1563 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:21yes2229 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:29yes822 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:34yes327 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:38yes1321 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:40yes1812 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:34yes55 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:27yes1225 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:38yes174 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:33yes2412 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:27yes1410 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:23yes2555 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:22yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:36yes1019 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:38yes2430 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:39yes1449 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:40yes832 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-04 21:36yes741 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-04 21:29yes1533 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Stripe read as Stripe Crypto
Stripe (via Bridge acquisition) read as Stripe Crypto
Stripe (with Bridge integration) read as Stripe Crypto
Unresolved, counted raw
Aave
Ampleforth
Anchorage Digital Bank N.A.
Binance USD BUSD
Circle – USDC / EURC, CCTP V2
Circle's CPN Managed Payments
Coinbase Custom Stablecoins
Compound
EURCV
Elixir (deUSD)
Fipto
Inyo Global
JPM Coin
JPM Coin / Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
MakerDAO’s Dai DAI
Mastercard MTN
Mastercard Multi-Token Network
MoonPay’s Iron
Orbital
PYUSD via PayPal/Paxos
Plasma
Polygon Open Money Stack
Quantoz's EURQ and USDQ
Ripple Payments / RLUSD
Sky's USDS
Stablerail
Stream Finance (xUSD)
Stripe's standard stablecoin checkout
Tempo
Terra UST
Tether's USDT
TrustToken
USDC via Circle
VaultNow
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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