{"id":544998,"date":"2026-01-22T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/un-receives-circle-grant-to-upgrade-cross-border-refugee-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:54:09","slug":"un-receives-circle-grant-to-upgrade-cross-border-refugee-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/un-receives-circle-grant-to-upgrade-cross-border-refugee-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"UN receives Circle grant to upgrade cross-border refugee aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmUyOWYtMDgwMi03MDE5LTg2YjEtMzdhNjkxNjcxMzhjLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"UN receives Circle grant to upgrade cross-border refugee aid\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Circle said digital financial infrastructure, including stablecoins, can save 20% of the cost of delivering humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoin issuer Circle has issued a grant to support the rollout of digital financial infrastructure across the United Nations, with the aim of making humanitarian aid payments more efficient.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Announced at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the Circle Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260121886072\/en\/Circle-Foundation-and-United-Nations-Aid-Agencies-Partner-to-Transform-Global-Aid-Delivery-and-Transparency\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> its first international grant would support the UN\u2019s Digital Hub of Treasury Solutions (DHoTS) \u201cefforts to streamline monetary value transfers across the UN ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grant builds on Circle\u2019s first collaboration with UNHCR and DHoTS in 2022, which facilitated USDC (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/usdc-price-index\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\/usdc-price-index\">USDC<\/a>) stablecoin payments for displaced Ukrainians. <\/p>\n<p>UN Development Programme administrator Alexander De Croo said that <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/standard-chartered-stablecoin-outflows-2028\">stablecoin payments <\/a>would <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/traditional-banks-stablecoins-cross-border-fireblocks\">enable the UN<\/a> to \u201cmake every dollar work harder\u201d with \u201ctight budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/un-circle-grant-stablecoins-streamline-refugee-aid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle said digital financial infrastructure, including stablecoins, can save 20% of the cost of delivering humanitarian aid. Stablecoin issuer Circle has issued a grant to support the rollout of digital financial infrastructure across the United Nations, with the aim of making humanitarian aid payments more efficient. Announced at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-544998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}