82 Million Samsung Phones Get USDC Built In—But Ethereum Wasn’t One of the Chains They Chose

There are 82 million Samsung Galaxy phones in use worldwide, and a USDC entry point is built right into the wallet. Underneath, they chose only Solana and Sui. Ethereum didn’t make the cut.

Hardware giants have never chosen a chain based on whose coin price is higher. They care about which one can handle tens of millions of people tapping “send” at once. It’s no surprise SOL was picked: fees of just a few cents and confirmation in seconds make it a natural fit for everyday, small-value payments.

On the same day, BNB was holding steady at $744. Exchange tokens are valued not on on-chain stories, but on platform fees and user retention. Holding at $744 suggests Binance’s core business remains solid—and that’s a completely separate story from which chains Samsung picked.

PEPE is the real laggard, sitting near 0.000004 and going nowhere. In a year when infrastructure giants are laying the groundwork, investors won’t even give a meme coin with no real-world use case a bounce.

What Old Ma’s Little Dog is doing is actually based on the same logic as Samsung’s: no empty promises—just start building real-world reach. Whoever can put an entry point right on users’ phones will win the next stage. Tonight, watch daily active users for USDC on Solana and see whether Samsung’s latest move can push the numbers up a notch.

🐶 Let’s check out Old Ma’s Little Dog together ✨🚀