Banks also enter the era of coin payments… NH NongHyup Bank and NHN KCP are changing the game

Kim Joo-sik, Vice President of NH NongHyup Bank's AI Data Division (right), and Park Jun-seok, CEO of NHN KCP, are posing for a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement on the 21st. [Provided by NongHyup Bank]

NH NongHyup Bank announced that it signed a strategic business agreement with NHN KCP on April 22nd to build a stablecoin-based payment ecosystem. NHN KCP is an electronic payment specialist company under the NHN group, providing various payment services based on online and offline payment infrastructure.

The core of this agreement lies in jointly designing a structure to apply stablecoins to actual payments and commercializing it in stages. Both companies will build a payment and settlement system using stablecoins and pursue plans to expand it into commercial services.

Furthermore, they plan to expand the payment ecosystem by linking merchant and platform networks and secure interoperability through connections with domestic and international digital payment infrastructures. This is interpreted as a strategic approach that goes beyond simple technical review to consider the establishment of a practical payment environment.

The bank views this collaboration as a starting point to verify the payment potential of stablecoins and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In particular, it is seen as a proactive move to respond to the shift from the existing card and simple payment-centric structure to blockchain-based payments.

The market is focusing on the possibility that this agreement will trigger competition for stablecoin adoption in the domestic financial sector. If use cases expand in actual payment areas, stablecoins could establish themselves as 'real-use currency' beyond being mere investment assets.

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