South Korean commercial banks and technology firms have continued testing stablecoin applications, despite legislative delays surrounding the proposed Digital Asset Basic Act.

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Solana Foundation said Samsung Wallet users can send USDC on Solana to other Samsung Wallet users, external crypto wallets and qualifying bank accounts

Attackers initially swapped 234 million stolen USDT for TRX on SunSwap, using approximately 7,700 TRON network addresses before moving funds off TRON.

Asset issuers including Tether and Circle froze approximately $3 billion in stolen cryptocurrency assets shortly after the October 29, 2026 Binance breach.

Stolen Crédit Mutuel funds transferred into secondary bank mule accounts were forwarded to cryptocurrency exchanges Kraken, Crypto.com, and OKX to purchase stablecoins

KB Financial Group completed a won-denominated stablecoin pilot for offline payments in May 2026, while Kakao Pay and KakaoBank partnered with Fireblocks in September 2026 for digital asset infrastructure.

Stablecoins accounted for 94% of the restricted Binance hack funds, while native cryptocurrencies on Bitcoin, XRP Ledger, Solana, and NEAR could not be frozen by issuers.

Circle froze $825 million worth of USDC associated with the 2026 Binance hack

Tether froze $1.77 billion worth of USDT associated with the 2026 Binance hack

Gwangju Bank and Toss completed testing for QR code-based stablecoin payments in October 2026, enabling transfers across banking and merchant interfaces.

The November 2026 WLFI token buyback program will be funded by an initial allocation that includes revenue generated from reserves backing World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin

The Trump family derives revenue from the sale and usage of World Liberty Financial's WLFI governance tokens and USD1 stablecoin

Approximately 3 billion dollars in assets stolen from Binance landed on Ethereum, primarily in Tether USDT and Circle USDC

Both Tether and Circle have built-in blocklist functions within their smart contracts that allow them to freeze tokens on-chain

Circle executed a blacklist freeze on stolen stablecoins approximately three minutes after Tether initiated their freeze following the $6 billion Binance exploit

Figure's Yields stablecoin product received regulatory approval during the presidential administration of Joe Biden

Figure settles loans using stablecoins in its capital marketplace to reduce settlement time and costs

Circle Internet Group's share of the U.S. dollar stablecoin market slipped to 27% during Q3 2026

Circle Internet Group's reserve income fell 8% year-over-year to $658 million in Q3 2026 due to declining interest rates on reserve assets

Circle Internet Group's USDC stablecoin in circulation ended Q3 2026 flat year-over-year at $73.9 billion

Circle Internet Group's return rate on USDC reserve assets dropped 0.61 percentage points to 3.5% during the third quarter of 2026