Blockchain / Crypto

Luno Malaysia, Halogen Capital, and Kenanga Investors are exploring the use of a fully reserved ringgit-pegged stablecoin as an on-chain settlement instrument for tokenized money-market funds.

Reap and Visa are expanding stablecoin-linked credit card programs to more than 100 markets, covering funding, repayment, settlement, and cross-border business payments.

In May, Vietnam's Ministry of Finance said the country's official digital-asset exchange could see its first activity as early as the third quarter of 2026, with five companies making preparations.

Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank have signed an MoU with Fireblocks to explore digital asset infrastructure in South Korea, including stablecoin distribution frameworks and proof-of-concept tests.

Circle has launched the Arc public mainnet with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders, including Standard Chartered, SBI Group and Sumitomo in its validator cohort.

Partior and LSEG DiSH are developing a multi-settlement-bank liquidity framework for round-the-clock cross-border payments, with production targeted from Q1 2027.

OSL says Banking Circle now supports its business payment rails in six fiat currencies, including Australian, Hong Kong and Singapore dollars.

TrueMoney is using Fireblocks embedded-wallet infrastructure for THBT Phase 2, a Thailand blockchain-payment pilot operating within regulatory sandboxes.

DBS, OCBC and UOB completed live domestic Singapore-dollar interbank transactions using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain ledger.

Hong Kong-based Reap has launched a Virtual Asset Ledger that lets card-issuing clients make bitcoin and other virtual-asset balances spendable at the point of sale.