Samsung Wallet

Galaxy users can now add virtual rabbit cards for Bangkok Transit.

Great news if you use a Samsung phone, because Samsung has begun rolling out a virtual rabbit card feature through Samsung Wallet, allowing compatible Galaxy smartphones to be used for contactless travel across several Bangkok transport networks.

The service supports the BTS, Sukhumvit, Seelom, and Gold lines, as well as the MRT Pink and Yellow lines.

Selected buses and participating boat ticket machines, the MRT Blue and Purple lines, are not yet supported, and the feature is limited to selected Samsung devices.

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Samsung phones, uh, with the Samsung Wallet, they're gonna integrate the USDC stablecoin.

Uh, and it's gonna be built on Solana.

I, I think other blockchains eventually, but this is a huge on-ramp because I have a Samsung phone, it has a Samsung Wallet, and I can't wait to test this out.

I'm an Apple girl, but I, I do know Samsung has the best camera from what I understand.

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Samsung is putting stable coins in the pocket of tens of millions of Americans.

Recently, the Korean tech giant announced that Samsung Wallet will support USDC transfers on Solana and SWE.

It starts the last week of the month across 82 million Galaxy devices in the United States.

There's no new app to download, just a feature inside the wallet where people already keep their cards, boarding passes, and IDs online.

Talk to us about how this partnership came to be.

Well, this is really exciting and another mainstream moment that Solana is building towards.

As you mentioned, Samsung just put stable coins inside the Samsung wallet app that millions of people already use every day.

They don't need to download a new crypto app.

yeah that's fair um i'll rattle off a few other headlines that sort of support uh this build out this transition so um china launches a national blockchain as part of a wire plan to accelerate the expansion of the digital economy then there was um a headline from the block that standard chartered is to expand crypto custody services in singapore we've had a number of headlines around Things being built in Singapore in recent months.

And then there was Samsung launching Samsung Wallet to bring stablecoin access to eligible Galaxy users in the US.

Anything on those.

There was also Jack Dorsey and Block turning on basically a Bitcoin bonus feature where I think people can earn up to 2% just by holding Bitcoin on the platform.

Uh, story number three.

Uh, Bastion, you might have heard of them, Naz, uh, will run stablecoin accounts in the Samsung Wallet across 82 million US Galaxy devices launching in the last week of October of this year.

Naz, that's a pretty big user base.

Samsung's a pretty big company.

Yeah, that sounds great.

Um, so Samsung has been excited about the blockchain technology for quite a bit of time.

Initially, they had built hardware capabilities for blockchain transaction and blockchain wallets a few years ago and actually decided to add stablecoins as part of their Samsung Wallet offering as kind of like a, a great place for everyone here to hold their funds on any, uh, Galaxy phone.

And, um, they decided to partner with us and, and Coinbase, we kind of like work jointly.

Samsung just put a giant new door in front of stablecoin adoption and Solana is busting that door wide open.

Samsung in the Samsung wallet will bring USDC functionality for eligible Galaxy users in the US.

In the last week of October, the headline number is 82 million compatible Galaxy devices.

And that is the potential immediate REIT.

Getting normal people to download the separate app, create a wallet, and understand private keys, bridging assets, and trusting the process along the way, most people do not want to do that.

And they should not have to.

The Samsung wallet is already where people expect to manage their payment tools.

And if stablecoin transfers become a feature inside that already familiar device, crypto stops asking that user to become a crypto native first.