What to know:
- First partnership between a South Korean internet-only bank and Solana Foundation to test Solana-based remittances, signed June 19.
- Main focus is using stablecoins for faster, cheaper overseas transfers with fewer intermediaries.
- Integration challenges like KYC/AML and system compatibility mean Toss Bank will review feasibility gradually.
Solana Foundation has partnered with Toss Bank, South Korea’s third-largest internet-only bank, to pilot cross-border payments using blockchain technology as part of the country’s digital banking shift. This partnership indicates a growing institutional interest in the use of public blockchain networks for remittances and other settlement operations, mainly with stablecoins.
MOU for Remittances Based on Solana
While in Seoul on June 19, Toss Bank and the Solana Foundation signed an exclusive MOU. The document mentions the testing of the global remittance and payment infrastructure jointly developed on the Solana network. Toss Bank points out that this is the very first indirect strategic partnership between a South Korean internet-only bank and the Solana Foundation.
The main attention will be given to overseas remittances, although the evaluation of other areas like payments, digital assets, and tokenized assets will also be carried out over time.
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Stablecoin Use in Overseas Payments
One of the main parts of the pilot will be exploring how far stablecoins can be used in sending money abroad. Stablecoins make the settlement of payments almost instant, and also reduce the number of intermediaries as compared with the traditional correspondent banking system. For Toss Bank, this would translate into cheaper and faster deliveries for individual and small to medium enterprise clients.
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Institutional Blockchain Integration Challenges
Banking systems differ so much from one another that these differences can result in serious incompatibility problems for third-party apps. This, coupled with other challenges such as maintaining KYC/AML standards and ensuring network robustness, makes the integration of new payment solutions based on the Solana blockchain look a little less appealing to banks at the moment, despite their being technically superior due to high throughput and low costs of transaction. Toss Bank expects to carry out a thorough analysis of the scheme gradually and cautiously, which echoes their prudent institutional stance towards the introduction of blockchain infrastructure.
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