As stablecoins take centre stage in the evolution of digital finance, 2025 has marked a significant inflection point. From the passing of the GENIUS Act in the U.S. to the rising adoption of stablecoins in cross-border trade and consumer payments, the foundation for programmable, secure, and transparent digital money is solidifying globally.
Steadfast in affirming Asia’s longstanding position as a leading hub for responsive digital asset innovation, StraitsX, the stablecoin-native settlement layer driving global finance, has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to advancing real-world adoption of stablecoins by anchoring its 2025 goals in three main principles: identity, partnerships, and advocacy.
StraitsX 2.0: A Refreshed Brand for a New Phase of Digital Money
In response to a maturing digital asset ecosystem, StraitsX has unveiled a refreshed brand identity that reflects both the evolution of the industry and its ambition to scale its infrastructure across borders. While the original identity guided StraitsX through its formative years – including the development of its enterprise API, the launch of XSGD and XUSD, and integration with major players like Coinbase and Hedera – the new identity represents a broader mandate: to provide compliant, programmable, and seamless digital currency infrastructure at regional scale as well as its strong footing across global banking partners, and fintechs.
As StraitsX embarks on the next chapter of its journey, this refreshed brand signals a deeper commitment to its founding mission and broader ambition to expand its global footprint and shape the future of digital finance. This evolution is a signal of the firm’s mandate to build trusted, regulatory-compliant stablecoin infrastructure that empowers businesses, institutions, and users with secure, real-time payment and treasury solutions in the region and beyond.
Strengthening the Foundation: Expanding Strategic Collaborations
StraitsX deepened its role as a trusted infrastructure partner throughout 2025, forging alliances that advance interoperable and real-world digital money use-cases across Asia. Each partnership reflected StraitsX’s commitment to embedding stablecoins into existing everyday financial flows, adhering to regulatory requirements, while developing more efficient and interoperable systems.
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Enabling Stablecoin-Powered Cross-Border Payments with KBank: As part of its regional expansion strategy, StraitsX partnered with KBank (KASIKORNBANK), one of Thailand’s largest financial institutions, to introduce stablecoin-based settlement into existing payment channels. This collaboration enables instant, cross-border settlements with real-time FX conversion, improving efficiency and transparency in traditional payment channels. This marked a major step toward integrating stablecoin settlement into traditional payment systems across Asia.
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Expanding Merchant Acceptance and Web3 Payments Through OKX Pay: StraitsX’s collaboration with OKX SG and Grab to launch OKX Pay extends stablecoin utility into everyday payment environments. Through this integration, OKX SG users gain more flexibility in leveraging stablecoins like USDT and USDC for everyday payments, enhancing liquidity pathways between dollar-pegged stablecoins, OKX Pay’s ecosystem and GrabPay’s merchant-partner network, empowering users with secure, transparent, and efficient payment options.
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Advancing Web3 Wallet Integration with Grab to Strengthen Asia’s Digital Payment Infrastructure: StraitsX’s strategic MOU with Grab advances the real-world utility of stablecoins by bringing digital asset wallets and stablecoin settlement into everyday consumer experiences across Asia. Through this collaboration, both StraitsX and Grab aim to integrate stablecoin-compatible wallets into the Grab platform and enable GrabPay merchants to accept fiat-backed stablecoins such as XSGD and XUSD, while preserving familiar payment experiences for consumers and merchants. The initiative creates new pathways for XSGD and XUSD to move seamlessly across everyday consumer services and merchant networks, strengthening the connection between fiat-backed stablecoins and mainstream digital commerce. This represented a meaningful step toward strengthening real-world stablecoin utility and addressing fragmentation in Asia’s payment systems.
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Accelerating Multichain Adoption and Unlocking Enhanced Liquidity with XSGD’s Listing on Ripple’s XRPL, Base, and Coinbase: As part of StraitsX’s multichain strategy, XSGD expanded across Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) and Base, with the Base integration paving the way for broader on-chain FX and DeFi applications. Its listing on Coinbase, meanwhile, provides global access to the digital Singapore Dollar, enhancing liquidity and usability for users worldwide.
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Enhancing Fiat-to-Stablecoin Connectivity: The year also saw the listing of XUSD on leading exchanges and the integration of StraitsX’s DVA solution with Binance and Bybit, extending its plug-and-play USD payment rails to crypto-native platforms, streamlining access between fiat and digital assets.
Each partnership reinforces StraitsX’s core belief that stablecoins, when embedded within existing financial ecosystems, can improve transparency, accelerate settlement, and unlock new efficiencies without disrupting user familiarity.
StraitsX in Global Dialogues: Setting the Tone for Digital Money Innovation
StraitsX amplified its industry footprint in 2025 through active participation at major global forums, including the Singapore FinTech Festival, Consensus Hong Kong, Avalanche Summit London, Korea Blockchain Week, and Money20/20 US and Asia. Across these platforms, CEO Liu Tianwei consistently championed how regulatory-compliant stablecoins and stablecoin rails as the underlying infrastructure can bridge the gap between traditional and modern financial systems while addressing real operational frictions through simplified reconciliation and enhanced transparency.
Through closed-door roundtable discussions and in-depth panel discussions, Liu reinforced StraitsX’s core towline: that meaningful digital-money innovation must be grounded in regulatory alignment, strong public-private partnerships, and real-world utility. His perspectives highlighted a pragmatic path forward for stablecoin adoption; one that improves transparency, enables near-instantaneous payment settlement, and strengthens global value movement across Asia, effectively positioning StraitsX as a prominent voice shaping the next generation of trusted, scalable, secure digital payment infrastructure.
Looking Ahead: The Road to Scaled, Trusted Digital Money
As the industry transitions toward 2026, stablecoins are set to evolve from emerging use cases into the essential rails of global payments, supported by clear regulatory frameworks, stronger institutional demand, and deeper integration into real-world settlement systems. In fragmented markets like Southeast Asia, where financial ecosystems are diverse yet interlinked, StraitsX remains focused on delivering programmable, interoperable, and regulatorily-compliant infrastructure that meets the growing demand from payment service providers, fintechs, corporates, and institutions. With trust, scalability, and invisibility to the end user as its guiding design principles, StraitsX is working toward a future where stablecoins quietly power global value movement, ultimately enabling financial systems that are faster, more efficient, and more inclusive, and ushering in an era where blockchain technology forms the backbone of global financial infrastructure.