{"id":633524,"date":"2026-07-23T06:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/kakao-taps-circle-to-explore-won-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:52:40","slug":"kakao-taps-circle-to-explore-won-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/kakao-taps-circle-to-explore-won-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakao taps Circle to explore won stablecoin payment infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-south-korea-staking-lending-service-1.png\" alt=\"Kakao taps Circle to explore won stablecoin payment infrastructure\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kakao Group and Circle signed an MOU to explore won stablecoin payments, remittances, merchant settlement and tokenized financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Kakao Group has partnered with stablecoin issuer Circle to explore payment infrastructure for won-backed stablecoins as South Korea prepares a broader regulatory framework for crypto assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kakaopay.com\/news\/pr_detail?id=790&amp;page=1\">announced<\/a> that Kakao, Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank had signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Circle Internet Group. Under the agreement, the companies will explore ways to connect Circle\u2019s blockchain and global payment infrastructure with Kakao\u2019s consumer platforms and financial services.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement highlights how major South Korean consumer and financial platforms are positioning themselves ahead of expected stablecoin legislation, even before the regulatory framework is finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/kakao-circle-won-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakao Group and Circle signed an MOU to explore won stablecoin payments, remittances, merchant settlement and tokenized financial services. Kakao Group has partnered with stablecoin issuer Circle to explore payment infrastructure for won-backed stablecoins as South Korea prepares a broader regulatory framework for crypto assets.\u00a0 On Thursday, the companies announced that Kakao, Kakao Pay and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-633524","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\/633524","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=633524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}