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A Singapore dollar stablecoin, backed by Singapore dollars held with a regulated custodian. Proof that stablecoins are not only a dollar story, even though dollars dominate the market.

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An e-money balance denominated in Singapore dollars rather than US dollars.

A return paid on a balance you leave somewhere. Where it comes from decides how safe it is: lending it out, staking it, or a company simply choosing to pay out of its own pocket for a while to attract deposits.

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Interest. A bank answers the question of where it comes from with a licence and deposit protection; a crypto app usually answers it with a paragraph.

Moving funds between protocols chasing the best return. The headline rates are real and so are the smart contract risks underneath them.

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Rate chasing across introductory savings offers, with materially higher stakes.

A Vietnamese payment wallet built into Zalo, the country's main messaging app, so paying happens inside something people already have open.

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Payments bolted onto a messaging network, the pattern that made WeChat Pay work in China.

Zero-knowledge proof

also called ZK proof

A way to prove something is true without revealing what sits behind it: that you are over 18 without showing your date of birth, or that a batch of transactions is valid without publishing every one of them.

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Proving you meet a lending criterion without handing over your full statement. Banking has wanted this for years and still mostly cannot do it.

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