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1/ Banks are now interested in stablecoins. What sparked the interest?
“Stablecoin transaction volume passed $28 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, settling on networks where banks have historically had limited control or participation. When money moves at that scale outside a bank’s control, it becomes difficult to ignore.” said @vchok, CEO of @FirstDigitalHQ
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Our CEO Vincent Chok sat down with @JameDiBiasio on The J.DB Report to talk through the last two years properly — the FDUSD de-peg, what it forced us to rebuild, and why First Digital is now betting on Asia and emerging markets instead of trying to out-scale the big players.
No spin, just the real story behind the headlines.
Most stablecoin conversations focus on the winners. Fewer focus on what it takes to keep going when the market turns. I joined @JameDiBiasio on The J.DB Report to talk about the last two years at First Digital, what it taught us, and why we rebuilt the business to prepare for a different market.
The market has changed. Two years ago, there were a handful of serious stablecoin issuers. Today, there are dozens. That forces every issuer to answer a harder question: what are we actually useful for?
Our answer is infrastructure. Serving Asian and emerging market users properly, building Finance District for agentic payments, and designing for security first, because in this business trust is the only thing that compounds.
Listen to the full conversation here: jdibiasio.com/p/vincent-chok
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First Digital retweeted
Global dollar stablecoin FDUSD meets KGLD.
FDUSD, issued by First Digital(@FDLabsHQ), has recorded more than $2 trillion in cumulative trading volume since launch.
KGLD is working with @FirstDigitalHQ to build onchain financial infrastructure connecting #FDUSD with #KGLD, a digital asset backed by physical gold.
By connecting a dollar stablecoin with a physical gold-backed digital asset through compliance-focused infrastructure, the initiative aims to create a pathway for global investors to access digital gold and the RWA market, while connecting KGLD to global liquidity.
A digital dollar with established global liquidity, connected to physical gold-backed KGLD.
This marks another step toward KGLD’s expansion into the global RWA market.
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FDUSD keeps pushing past payments. Gold-backed RWAs in Korea are next, off the back of this MOU with ITSenGroup.
MOU signed: First Digital x ITSenGroup, linking FDUSD with KGLD on compliant blockchain infra.
Plan over the next 5 years: 50 tons of gold onchain, a ₩10T RWA ecosystem, new payment/settlement rails for Korean businesses.
Read more: koreadaily.com/article/20260…
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First Digital retweeted
An imperfect framework beats endless delay.
Our CEO @vchok on why the CLARITY Act needs to account for the global reality of stablecoins — via @CoinMarketCap .
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First Digital retweeted
Big news for $FDUSD holders and traders! 🚀
FDUSD’s first direct fiat market, FDUSD/USD, is now live on @HashKeyExchange, one of Hong Kong’s leading licensed virtual asset exchanges.
Three new spot pairs:
• FDUSD/USD
• BTC/FDUSD
• ETH/FDUSD
Buy and sell FDUSD directly against USD. Trade BTC and ETH settled in FDUSD on a SFC licensed exchange.
Professional investors only.
Learn more ↓
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False allegations again. Our CEO sets the record straight.
Justin Sun is back with the same claims we have answered many times, and a few new ones.
He says Binance delisted FDUSD. It did not. A few low-volume altcoin pairs were trimmed, as happens on every exchange. Dozens still trade today. He points to a drop in FDUSD. It came hours after his own targeted attack, and the peg was back the same day.
FDUSD has honoured every redemption request on schedule, without exception. Every dollar sits in attested reserves, and we publish the holdings each month.
Sixteen months on, still nothing. His story keeps shifting, but ours has not. This belongs in court, and we know what our records show.
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Korea's crypto outflows hit $10.5B over 18 months. Our CEO Vincent Chok's take: it's not a stablecoin problem, it's a product problem.
"The starting point is the demand for the products themselves."
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The CLARITY Act's biggest holdup right now isn't crypto policy it's ethics enforcement.
Our CEO Vincent Chok's take:
"The core debate is no longer whether digital assets need a regulatory framework, but how to finalize one that commands broad support."
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First Digital retweeted
Your Shopware store can now take payments from AI shopping agents.
The official Prism plugin is live. Install it, connect your Prism account, and your storefront starts accepting agent-initiated orders, settled instantly in stablecoins straight to your own wallet. No chargebacks, no new dashboard, no protocol code to write.
It runs on Shopware's own agentic commerce extension, and that's deliberate. Platforms should own the protocol layer. We build the payment handler.
Last week we got to show @juanferrub what that looks like end to end: one prompt, plan a barbecue for friends, and an agent planned the menu, filled a basket and paid for it on testnet. Credit to @shopware and the @ACLabShopware for building that layer in the open.
We take care of the finance side, so you can focus on running your business.
Accept AI payments now: fd.xyz/ecosystem/prism
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Traditional rails were built for a world where money moves during business hours. That world is gone.
Our Founder & CEO Vincent Chok, on where stablecoins actually matter: "Stablecoins matter most where money has to move between systems that do not connect well."
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The Flow #30 is live — our July edition covers:
→ Prism launches on Finance District
→ FDUSD turns three
→ Cloudflare & AWS embed stablecoin payments at the network edge
Read the full edition 👇
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First Digital retweeted
When the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin sells, the market reads it as a signal, but I'd take that with a pinch of salt.
To me, Strategy's sale looks more like a tactical move to satisfy credit rating agencies than a fundamental loss of conviction in Bitcoin. There's a difference between raising cash and walking away.
Bitcoin is down close to 30% this year, but the long-term outlook remains strong. Many investors in Southeast Asia are already treating this dip as an entry point rather than a reason to step away.
Read the full @BusinessTimes article here ↓ businesstimes.com.sg/wealth/…
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The agent economy needs a settlement layer. Stablecoins just became it.
The Flow #29 is live — our June edition covers:
→ First Digital at Stable Summit IV, NYC
→ AI agents earning institutional RWA yield
→ $321B stablecoin market & what's driving it
Read the full edition 👇
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First Digital retweeted
🏛️ Institutions are watching. Capital is waiting.
The real question isn't whether crypto survives without the #CLARITY Act—it's how much growth gets delayed if regulatory certainty doesn't arrive.
Vincent Chok (@vchok), CEO of @FirstDigitalHQ, explains why the impact could extend far beyond US borders.
Explore the implications 👇
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New York DFS just proposed its first formal stablecoin regulation, updating its 2022 framework to align with the GENIUS Act.
Federal rules go live Jan 2027. States are racing to get certified before then — or lose jurisdiction to the feds.
The regulatory layer for programmable money is being finalized. Build on it.
LATEST: New York's financial regulator has proposed its first formal stablecoin regulations, updating its 2022 framework to align with the federal GENIUS Act ahead of a 60-day public comment period.
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First Digital retweeted
AI agents need money rails that never sleep.
Philip Decker (@philip0x), Vincent Chok (@vchok), Anil Nadiminti, Markus Franke (@MarkusMento), and DeFi Dave (@defidave) on how stablecoins become the financial layer for the agentic economy, and what security looks like when machines hold the wallet:
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Today our CEO, @vchok will be speaking at Stable Summit IV in NYC 🗽
Joining the Agentic Payments: When Machines Hold Stablecoins panel.
Exploring how AI agents are reshaping the way stablecoins move, and what that means for the institutions and businesses building on this infrastructure.
June 4 · New York · @stable_summit
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Stablecoins are evolving beyond trading liquidity—positioning as the foundational infrastructure for AI-native finance and autonomous machine commerce.
Dive into our latest edition of The Flow: Insights from First Digital #28.
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