#OpenDigest | 28 August 2026
Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem.
đŁ Stablecoin & RWA Market Pulse
âTotal stablecoin market cap: $304.027B
âTotal RWA on-chain market cap: $38.69B
âTotal stablecoin holders: 283.08M
âTotal RWA assets holders: 2,951,989
đŁ Top Headlines
â Shinhan Financial Group plans to use Visaâs stablecoin platform to test issuance, remittances and redemptions while developing artificial intelligence-powered payment models for South Korea. The partnership is the first adoption of Visaâs enterprise stablecoin infrastructure by a top-tier South Korean financial group and will include pilots for card settlement and business payments.
â Bridge founder Zach Abrams sees an opportunity for âtokenized local currenciesâ across Asia.
â Japanese regulators, the Bank of Japan and financial institutions plan to develop a national blockchain-based settlement system for stocks and government bonds, with work expected to begin by early 2027 and operations potentially starting in the early 2030s.
â STS Digital Ltd CEO Maxime Seiler said âWe're in crypto winter price-wise where we're in institutional summer,â whereby digital-asset prices have diverged from institutional adoption, with institutions continuing to build on crypto technology even as token prices have underperformed.
đŁ OpenEden's Updates
â OpenEden is joining the Digital Asset Yield Summit Singapore on 6 October. Meet us there as we explore the evolving opportunity set across on-chain yield and tokenized markets.
â Our Founder and CEO, Jeremy Ng, will be speaking at the Digital Asset Yield Summit in Singapore on 6 October. Heâll join private capital allocators and industry leaders to discuss how tokenized markets are creating new ways to deploy institutional capital on-chain.
â Read the full digest on our X: https://x.com/OpenEden_X/status/2093289944936829436?s=20
Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem.
đŁ Stablecoin & RWA Market Pulse
âTotal stablecoin market cap: $304.027B
âTotal RWA on-chain market cap: $38.69B
âTotal stablecoin holders: 283.08M
âTotal RWA assets holders: 2,951,989
đŁ Top Headlines
â Shinhan Financial Group plans to use Visaâs stablecoin platform to test issuance, remittances and redemptions while developing artificial intelligence-powered payment models for South Korea. The partnership is the first adoption of Visaâs enterprise stablecoin infrastructure by a top-tier South Korean financial group and will include pilots for card settlement and business payments.
â Bridge founder Zach Abrams sees an opportunity for âtokenized local currenciesâ across Asia.
â Japanese regulators, the Bank of Japan and financial institutions plan to develop a national blockchain-based settlement system for stocks and government bonds, with work expected to begin by early 2027 and operations potentially starting in the early 2030s.
â STS Digital Ltd CEO Maxime Seiler said âWe're in crypto winter price-wise where we're in institutional summer,â whereby digital-asset prices have diverged from institutional adoption, with institutions continuing to build on crypto technology even as token prices have underperformed.
đŁ OpenEden's Updates
â OpenEden is joining the Digital Asset Yield Summit Singapore on 6 October. Meet us there as we explore the evolving opportunity set across on-chain yield and tokenized markets.
â Our Founder and CEO, Jeremy Ng, will be speaking at the Digital Asset Yield Summit in Singapore on 6 October. Heâll join private capital allocators and industry leaders to discuss how tokenized markets are creating new ways to deploy institutional capital on-chain.
â Read the full digest on our X: https://x.com/OpenEden_X/status/2093289944936829436?s=20
