South Korea’s budget office says stablecoins may save merchants $3.8 billion a year, while warning of reduced bank intermediation and peg risks.
South Korea’s budget office estimates that stablecoin adoption could save merchants as much as $3.8 billion each year.
The office also warned that wider use of stablecoins could diminish banks’ roles as credit intermediaries and could destabilize token pegs during large‑scale redemptions.
Marcus reports on digital assets, from spot ETF flows to protocol-level developments in DeFi. He pays particular attention to how institutional adoption is reshaping crypto market structure.
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