Your weekly cryptocurrency summary: stablecoins are closer to mass adoption

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Focus story this week: Samsung brings stablecoins to millions of mobile phones

Starting from the last week of October, Samsung will add USDC transfer functionality to its Samsung Wallet for eligible US Galaxy users, covering approximately 82 million devices for the first batch. Users can send USDC across borders and transfer funds to bank accounts in more than 60 countries around the world without downloading a separate encryption application. Samsung does not charge a fee for sending USDC to overseas wallets, but recipient wallets or exchanges may charge separate fees. Bastion, a U.S. regulated stablecoin infrastructure provider, is responsible for custody, identity verification, compliance and cross-border remittances. Coinbase Prime, as a sub-custodian, holds all USDC stored in Samsung Wallet. Solana and Sui provide the underlying blockchain infrastructure.

The highlight of this service is what users "don't need" to do: no need to manage private keys, no need to store mnemonics, and no need to open a separate encrypted account. The service runs within apps that already exist on the phones of millions of Samsung users. Whether users actually use it will depend on rates, exchange rates and the smoothness of the experience, but Samsung's distribution capabilities alone make this collaboration different from typical crypto partnership announcements.

The company sells approximately 250 million devices every year, with more than 1 billion devices active globally. Even if the initial adoption rate is low, this marks a meaningful and large-scale entry of stablecoins into the mainstream consumer hardware space.

Here are some other news worthy of attention this week:

希腊提议对加密收益征收10%的税收，年免税额为500欧元，低于此前讨论的15%税率。这比行业预期的要温和，但这毕竟是从无到有的征税。

美国政府本周转移了价值1亿美元的比特币和BNB，其中价值7160万美元的833.6 BTC发送至Coinbase Prime，价值3160万美元的40,285 BNB通过多个钱包路由。目前尚未说明转账原因，是否即将出售仍存疑。

印度四年以来首次加息5.50%，以对抗通胀并支撑卢比。高利率与货币疲软同时出现，往往会将投资者推向替代资产。部分资金正通过这些不太可见的渠道流入加密货币市场。

FNB通过与南非交易所VALR的合作，为其900万客户推出了加密交易服务。一家大型零售银行直接为其全部客户提供加密访问，这与交易所注册是截然不同的采用模式。韩国Meritz Securities也分别与Ripple合作开展加密托管和代币化基础设施，传统金融机构进一步向链上迁移。

在人工智能领域，印度计划在30天内发布AI监管文件，并在最终确定规则之前征求公众和行业反馈。对于印度这样监管复杂的大国而言，30天是一个极具挑战性的时间表。韩国本周确认七家金融机构遭受AI驱动的网络攻击, provides realistic data points for what regulators have been warning about for months. The FSB has called AI-driven cyberattacks the most pressing AI threat to financial stability in recent times, and South Korea has just provided evidence.

From Samsung's deployment of stablecoins to 82 million mobile phones to the U.S. government's "suspicious"$100 million wallet transfer, this week's story lines are endless. If you missed anything, here is your review summary.

Market Highlights

Greece proposes a 10% tax on crypto earnings with an annual tax exemption of 500 euros

Greece proposes a 10% tax on crypto earnings, down from the previously discussed 15%, with an annual tax exemption of 500 euros.

The U.S. government transferred $100 million to Coinbase to spark sell-off debate

The U.S. transferred $100 million worth of BTC and BNB, of which $71.6 million worth of Bitcoin was sent to Coinbase Prime, but no sale was confirmed.