Important Update about Stablecoin Insider: Chiara Munaretto (@chrmrto) , Co-Founder of Stablecoin Insider, is leaving the publication, effective 15 November 2026. Munaretto co-founded Stablecoin Insider and built it from the ground up into an established journal on how the world discusses stablecoins. Her role was fundamental to its growth, from its first edition to its position today. She now leaves to pursue new challenges and opportunities in the industry. Readers, contributors, speakers, sponsors, partners and clients shaped this work alongside her, and Munaretto thanks all of them. It was never the work of one person. In conversations with corporates, regional banks and private funds, tokenized money remains an unclear topic. Demand continues for education, use case scoping, vendor assessment and accurate data. This work is long and hands-on, and Munaretto will give it her full focus under a new brand. She remains committed to the stablecoin industry and is expanding her work within it. Read the full announcement at

Liquidity management, not lower fees, is the number one reason Asian institutions adopt stablecoins, with 41% citing it as the leading benefit against 25% pointing to cost, because the business case lives in the days a payment spends in transit, not the basis points it costs. Our fourth and final pillar piece from Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026 is the CFO and treasurer primer: what changes versus correspondent banking, why the gain is pre-funded capital coming off the balance sheet, what does not change, and where to start in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan today. Operator research from @_CapitalLayer, @movantis_global, @reapglobal, @Stabo2025, and @TripleAHQ converges on one model: a second rail, routed per transaction, governed inside the systems the business already runs. Read the full analysis:

B2B stablecoin payments have hit a $226 billion annualised run rate, up 733% in a year, but the onchain leg was never the expensive part. The real cost sits in FX spreads, local rails and prefunded capital. We ranked the 9 best stablecoin FX platforms for cross-border payments in 2026, from Circle StableFX’s onchain swaps to fiat-and-stablecoin desks like @CodexFX that settle 24/7 without prefunding. Read the full breakdown:

Moving a stablecoin onchain costs almost nothing, but once you add the on- and off-ramps, total cost can climb to nearly 9% of the transfer. We ranked the 9 best institutional ramps for 2026 on rates, settlement speed, prefunding and licensing, from issuer channels like Circle Mint and Paxos to newer players like @CodexFX, which settles 24/7 in under 30 minutes with no prefunding. Read the full breakdown:

Stablecoin Insider is joining Bluechip26 as a Media Partner for the second year in a row! @StablecoinInfo is the leading source of news and education on stablecoins, publishing daily coverage and in-depth articles on trends that are shaping the future of money. Bluechip26 is the world’s first and leading conference dedicated to crypto safety. 📍 Nov 10-11 in Vienna

New: @FireblocksHQ and @utila_io are both institutional MPC wallet platforms, and they are the only two names in this category that compete on the same architectural terms. Everything else marketed as a Fireblocks alternative is either a custodian with a charter or a payment rail with a licence stack. Read the full breakdown:

Kraken’s parent agreed to pay up to $600 million in May for a Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, and the target was not an exchange or a token but plumbing, which tells you where the commercial opportunity sits in a region that reserves issuance for banks. Our pillar piece from Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026 maps the operators building APAC’s stack by use case: - @_CapitalLayer connecting banks to on-chain settlement in the Taiwan–Japan–Korea trade corridor. - @reapglobal turning stablecoin treasury into corporate card spend. - @TripleAHQ running merchant acceptance with 15–20% of APAC merchant volume now on stablecoin checkout. - @Stabo2025 managing collections and treasury under a Hong Kong trust structure. - @movantis_global bringing its hybrid fiat-plus-stablecoin remittance model to the Philippines, India, and Indonesia. The common thread across all five: nobody is replacing fiat rails, they are adding a second one and routing each transaction through whichever is optimal under one compliance standard. Read the full analysis:

A look back at the Institutional Onchain Finance Summit 2026! 🎥 Hosted by @0xCregis alongside @FOMOPayOfficial , @WidthGRC & @Stable during @token2049 week. Thanks to @MetaCompHQ , @tether , @aveniaio , @1Xexchange , @CertiK , @HackenProof , @zan_team, @injective, @stablecoininfo and @beincrypto 🎬 Watch the highlights! Check out more details: #Cregis# #TOKEN2049# #Stablecoins# #OnchainFinance# #DigitalAssets#

Noah, the stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, has closed its seed funding round at $38 million following the raise of an additional $16 million from existing and new investors. The raise follows strong growth that has seen revenues surge by 538% during year-to-date 2026 compared to the same period 2025, with recurring monthly growth of 31%. Noah has also signed over 150 new customers during 2026 including major enterprises such as they transition to stablecoin transfers. Read the full breakdown:

Stablecoins moved roughly $10.2 trillion on-chain in the twelve months to June 2026, but only about $390 billion of it was money actually paying for something, and Asia leads on both, originating roughly 60% of the world's genuine stablecoin payments. Our new piece from Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026 sizes the APAC market, separates the three measures of settlement volume, and maps the trade and remittance corridors underneath, from record flows into India and the Philippines to Taiwan–Japan–Korea hardware lanes where a payment still takes two to five days to clear. Operator research from @_CapitalLayer, @movantis_global, @reapglobal, @Stabo2025, and @TripleAHQ shows where the volume is concentrating: B2B trade settlement, merchant flows card rails never reached, and remittance lanes where it is the interbank leg, not the last mile, that stablecoins compress. Read the full analysis:

APAC isn't waiting for Washington. Four major stablecoin regimes in 12 months: Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. Zero cross-border license passporting, yet. Which means the real advantage isn't one license; it's regulated coverage at both ends of a corridor. That's exactly how Triple-A is built: licensed where the money starts and where it lands. Great breakdown of where APAC regulation stands 👇

Hong Kong licensed two stablecoin issuers out of 36 applicants, Singapore is writing its framework into law with the region's first opening to foreign coins, Japan has all three yen-issuer lanes live or scheduled, and Taiwan passed a bank-anchored regime with criminal enforcement, all inside twelve months. Our new pillar piece from Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026 compares every regime, plus the South Korea, Australia, and UAE watchlist, with operator research from @_CapitalLayer, @movantis_global, @reapglobal, @Stabo2025, and @TripleAHQ. The takeaway: the licence is the entry ticket, but regulated operations on both ends of a corridor are the product, and no APAC jurisdiction passports another's licence yet. Read the full analysis:

New: @BlackRock's Digital Assets Research team published a whitepaper last week arguing that autonomous AI agents could become an overlooked source of demand for stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure. The paper is titled The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute. Its authors are Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, and William Helm. Read the full news:

The Trump administration is weighing an initiative to promote dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, according to a Bloomberg report published September 23, 2026 citing people familiar with the plans. The stated aim is to reinforce the dollar's position as the world's reserve asset and to increase demand for US Treasuries. One approach under discussion is supporting selected stablecoin projects through joint ventures with private firms. Read the full news:

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov said on September 23, 2026 that investors, not intermediaries, will absorb the losses if a foreign stablecoin issuer freezes their assets. He made the comments at the Moscow Financial Forum, reported by TASS. The condition attached is specific: the freeze must occur for reasons outside a Russian depository's control. Read the full news:

A cross-border supplier payment takes 2-5 business days through correspondent banking. On stablecoin rails it settles in minutes, and 41% of businesses using them report savings of 10% or more. But the treasurers running these flows say the real win isn't fees, it's working capital: no pre-funded accounts, faster cash conversion, and no crypto on the balance sheet. Operator research from Mandioca, @movantis_global, @pomelo_latam, @rise_pay, and @Velafi_global maps the full playbook: the five risks, their mitigations, and a three-step adoption path that starts with a single supplier invoice. Read the full breakdown:

Trace Finance is on the US Stablecoin Ecosystem Map 2026 by Chiara Munaretto (@stablecoininfo) and @notabene_id, listed among the on and off ramps powering stablecoin flows in the US. 40+ companies, 8 categories. Proud to be on it. Much more to come.

Money is moving East. Asia now drives ~60% of genuine stablecoin payment volume. At Triple-A, APAC → MENA flows grew 604% in 2025, while APAC → Europe grew 205%. We contributed to Stablecoin Insider’s new report on the corridors, regulation, and real-world use cases shaping stablecoin adoption across Asia. Read the report ↓

Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm @dtcpay_official said on Friday, September 18, that it has completed a $25 million Series A after Japan's SBI Group joined as a strategic investor. SBI invested through SBI Ventures Asset Pte Ltd and through the SBI-NTU-Kyobo Digital Innovation Fund. Neither side disclosed the size of SBI's cheque or the company's valuation. Read the full news: