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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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Jector registers patent for onchain payment tech linking QR codes to blockchain wallets

Jector, a stablecoin payment infrastructure company, said it has completed registration of a patent for onchain payment technology that connects QR codes and other visual codes with external blockchain wallets. The company said the patent focuses on converting digital asset transfers into a payment process for real-world commerce. The system verifies consistency between payment requests and transactions through smart contracts and supports measures to prevent tampering and reuse of expired requests.

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Circle launches Arc layer-1 blockchain mainnet targeting stablecoins

Circle has launched the mainnet of Arc, a layer-1 blockchain that uses USDC as the asset for transaction fees. Cointelegraph reported that Arc targets stablecoin payments and financial markets, especially agent-based trading. Arc is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine and offers sub-second payment finality. It supports more than 20 fiat stablecoins and provides tokenised assets such as BlackRock’s BUIDL and Circle’s USYC in native form.