Stablecoin payments have been a "coming soon" feature in mainstream finance for years. South Korea's biggest card company may have just moved that timeline up.
A Major Partnership Takes Shape
On April 30, Shinhan Card - South Korea's largest card issuer, with 28 million cardholders - signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to jointly develop stablecoin-based payment infrastructure. The deal isn't a press release placeholder. Both parties have outlined specific pilots, technical goals, and a roadmap for moving from testnet to real-world deployment.
The work breaks into three areas: a proof-of-concept on the Solana testnet simulating payment flows between customers and merchants; non-custodial wallet testing to evaluate operational stability and security in scenarios where users retain full asset control; and development of a hybrid finance model bridging tr...
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