SGB Shatters Barriers: Free Solana Stablecoin Minting & Redemption Now Live for Clients
Another wall in the legacy finance fortress just crumbled. SGB, a major player in the digital asset custody space, just flipped the script on stablecoin access—and they're doing it for free.
The Zero-Cost Gateway
Forget the usual fees and friction. SGB's new service lets clients mint and redeem stablecoins directly on the Solana blockchain without the traditional tollbooth. This isn't just a feature drop; it's a direct challenge to the costly intermediaries that have long profited from moving value. It turns the Solana network into a private, high-speed financial highway for institutional players.
Why Solana? Speed Meets Scale
The choice of Solana is no accident. Its architecture is built for this: sub-second finality and fees measured in fractions of a cent. For institutions moving large sums, this combination is irresistible. SGB's move effectively weaponizes Solana's technical advantages, packaging them as a seamless, cost-free service. It bypasses the clunky, expensive processes that still plague traditional finance—a sector that somehow still charges wire fees in the 21st century.
The Institutional On-Ramp Just Got Wider
This is more than convenience. By removing the cost of entry and exit, SGB dramatically lowers the operational risk for funds, market makers, and corporates looking to use stablecoins for treasury management or payments. It makes holding digital dollars as fluid as transferring them. The implication is clear: the line between traditional finance and crypto-native finance is blurring into obsolescence.
One cynical take? The old guard will likely spin this as "innovative client service" while quietly scrambling to update their own decade-old, fee-laden systems. SGB isn't just offering a service; they're exposing an entire business model built on rent-seeking. The race to zero in crypto finance just found its latest, most powerful catalyst.
SGB’s new service connects regulated banking with blockchain rails
Since its market entry, SGB has processed more than $7 billion in transactions. Adding on-chain minting and redemption aims to make financial transactions easier and smoother for clients doing business in these areas.
SGB’s new service connects regulated banking with blockchain rails. Clients are allowed to create or destroy stablecoins directly on Solana, without moving assets through intermediaries. To that end, Solana’s high throughput and relatively low on-chain costs will facilitate high-volume, real-time transfers that WOULD otherwise be slow and expensive through conventional banking systems.
Shawn Chan, Chief Executive Officer of SGB, stated, “The adoption of stablecoins by regulated banks reflects their growing real-world utility. By leveraging Solana’s speed and cost advantages, we are providing our clients across the GCC and Asian markets with a bank-grade compliant stablecoin solution that finally makes real-time, cross-border and cross-counterparty transactions viable for corporates.”
This program comes after the advent of SGB Net. This platform was made to speed up settlements and make managing liquidity easier across both fiat and crypto channels.
Additionally, SGB announced a partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks to support secure digital asset custody and treasury operations. This partnership allowed SGB to offer institutional-grade custody for crypto and stablecoins, backed by multi-party computation (MPC) cryptography and secure wallet infrastructure.
Besides SGB, other regulated banks and financial infrastructure firms have also been expanding stablecoin services. As reported by Cryptopolitan, DBS and others have explored stablecoin custody and issuance frameworks.
Additionally, networks like the Global Dollar Network and platforms like Fireblocks facilitate secure and stablecoin transactions, as well as bank integrations.
Singapore’s Payment Services Act and the MAS framework take the lead
Southeast Asia received approximately $80 billion in remittances last year, with average fees exceeding 6%. According to internal trials, SGB’s Solana corridor cut effective costs to under 0.3% while settling in seconds. Solana currently hosts over $5 billion in stablecoin liquidity and processes 65,000 transactions per second at sub-cent costs.
The service operates under Singapore’s Payment Services Act and the MAS framework for single-currency stablecoins. All minted tokens are backed 1:1, with USDC reserves independently attested monthly by Grant Thornton.
Meanwhile, the total stablecoin market cap surpassed $300 billion. This represents a 75% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to a report from Morgan Stanley Investment Management. USDT supply surpassed $191 billion in 2025, with its user base reaching 500 million for the first time in October. Circle has around $78 billion of USDC in circulation.
According to Wall Street giant Citi, the stablecoin market is growing faster than expected. This prompted the bank to recently lift its 2030 forecast for issuance to $1.9 trillion in its base case and $4 trillion in a bull case, up from $1.6 trillion and $3.7 trillion, respectively.
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