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U.S. EV charging stations shift toward rest-stop-style experience

Competition in the U.S. public electric vehicle charging market is shifting from the number of chargers to amenities and the user experience. Automaker joint venture IONNA is accelerating network expansion with its lounge-style Rechargery hubs. It operates about 1,000 charging bays at more than 100 sites and has contracted for additional bays, while targeting 30,000 ultra-fast charging points by 2030. Tesla and EVgo are also upgrading systems and deployment models.

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BDACS CSO Kim Tak-jong says won stablecoin should target payment areas previously hard to reach

Digital asset infrastructure company BDACS held a Korea Blockchain Week 2026 side event with Circle, Kyobo Life Insurance and SBI Holdings. Participants from financial institutions and the digital asset industry discussed directions for developing stablecoin-based financial infrastructure. BDACS presented use cases for a won stablecoin and demonstrated an onchain exchange of KRW1 and USDC in a testnet environment using Circle’s StableFX program.

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Hecto Financial joins global stablecoin OpenUSD alliance, expands payment infrastructure

Hecto Financial will join Open Standard, a global corporate alliance for the dollar-based stablecoin OpenUSD (OUSD), as a network partner, it said on Wednesday. The alliance includes about 160 companies such as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase. Hecto Financial said it is reviewing plans to use OUSD for overseas remittances and corporate payments and settlement, and to offer different infrastructures such as Circle Payments Network and OUSD depending on clients and countries.