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Hong Kong issues its first batch of stablecoin licenses: How can the SFI stablecoin ecosystem leverage this opportunity to take off?

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In 2024, the total on-chain transaction volume of stablecoins exceeded $36.3 trillion, surpassing the combined transaction volume of Visa and Mastercard. With a compound annual growth rate of 28%, it significantly outperformed traditional payment systems. The number of global stablecoin holders exceeded 270 million and continued to grow rapidly, firmly establishing itself as the fourth largest payment infrastructure globally, after cash, bank cards, and mobile payments. On the policy front, the compliance process for stablecoins accelerated across the board: the US GENIUS Act granted them formal legal status, incorporating compliant stablecoins into the core of the dollar's digitalization strategy; the EU's MiCA Act was implemented, becoming the world's first comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets; Hong Kong and Singapore accelerated the establishment of digital asset compliance centers; and the UAE and other Middle Eastern regions actively embraced industry innovation through regulatory bodies such as VARA. Compliance has become the core moat of the stablecoin sector, completely opening up the boundaries of industry development.

It is worth mentioning that on April 10, 2026, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued its first batch of stablecoin licenses. Previously, the HKMA had completed the final review of the first batch of applications in mid-March 2026, and is currently in the official public announcement preparation stage. The HKMA received a total of 36 applications, and plans to issue 2-3 licenses in the first batch, with stringent regulatory standards.

However, behind the impressive data and policy dividends, the paradox of the stablecoin industry's development is becoming increasingly apparent: over 94% of stablecoins are confined to the crypto trading system, with a daily payment penetration rate of less than 6%, and they are rarely seen in ordinary consumption scenarios; the legal threshold for individual users to deposit and withdraw funds is high, the exchange channels between fiat currency and stablecoins are not smooth, and the lack of real consumption scenarios has turned stablecoins into "isolated assets" in the crypto world, making it difficult for trillions of dollars in market value to achieve true value circulation. For stablecoins to transform from simple "trading pairs" into universal "payment tools," it is by no means possible to achieve a breakthrough in a single product, but rather requires an ecosystem that connects the entire chain.

The Stablecoin Financial Infrastructure (SFI) platform is designed to address this industry pain point by building a bridge between real-world finance and the Web3 economy through a collaborative ecosystem model. It aims to create a golden closed loop for stablecoins, from assets to consumption and from value appreciation to circulation, thereby driving their fundamental transformation from "digital assets" to "practical tools."

I. Who is SFI? It's an ecosystem pegged to stablecoin infrastructure, aiming to create a closed loop throughout the entire lifecycle.

SFI is a leading global stablecoin infrastructure ecosystem platform. Unlike projects in the industry that only solve problems in a single link, its core logic is ecosystem synergy . Through investment, incubation and deep cooperation, it integrates the core components of the entire stablecoin chain, such as payment gateways, consumption scenarios, trading tools, liquidity management and asset incubation, to build a closed-loop system covering the entire life cycle of "asset → payment → consumption → investment → value-added".

The three core concepts supporting the SFI ecosystem construction form its differentiated underlying logic: from infrastructure to application, promoting stablecoins to penetrate into real-world scenarios such as investment, payment, consumption, and settlement, refusing to remain at the level of trading pairs; from single point to ecosystem, connecting the best global resources, building a collaborative network through investment and incubation, and breaking the capability boundaries of a single project; from speculation to value, moving away from pure token speculation, returning to the essence of business, and building a sustainable stablecoin ecosystem with real revenue, real users, and real scenarios.

SFI is built upon the Solulu Club liquidity program, creating a comprehensive ecosystem encompassing five core components: Solulu Pay, Caviar, COPX, RWA Incubator, and RWA Exchange. As SFI's foundation, Solulu Club serves as the core liquidity hub of the entire ecosystem, providing ample liquidity support for fund transfers, asset exchanges, and transaction settlements across all sectors. This ensures low slippage and near-instantaneous settlement within the ecosystem, making stablecoin circulation efficient and smooth.

II. One Liquidity Foundation + Five Major Ecosystems: Building a Stablecoin Value Network with Liquidity at its Core

SFI uses Solulu Club as its core liquidity platform, linking five major ecosystem sectors for deep collaboration and resource sharing to build an organically unified and complete ecosystem. With liquidity as the core support for the full-scenario circulation of stablecoins, it builds a closed-loop stablecoin value network to achieve efficient value transfer between various sectors.

Solulu Club: The heart of ecological liquidity, the core foundation for end-to-end value transfer.

Liquidity is the lifeblood of stablecoins and the underlying foundation for the SFI ecosystem. As SFI's dedicated liquidity program, Solulu Club acts as the "financial heart" of the ecosystem, deeply penetrating all business aspects of the five core ecosystems. Through intelligent liquidity management, a professional market-making system, and multi-chain deployment capabilities, it provides continuous and ample liquidity support for the entire ecosystem, covering all scenarios such as fiat-to-stablecoin exchange, consumer payments, asset trading matching, and token circulation. Simultaneously, it provides users with channels to participate in liquidity, realizing a liquidity cycle of "ecosystem co-construction and value sharing," which is a key foundation for the seamless operation of the entire SFI chain.

Solulu Pay: A Super Gateway to the Real World, Compliantly Connecting Fiat Currency and Stablecoins

As the core channel connecting SFI to the real world, Solulu Pay relies on the real-time liquidity support of Solulu Club to achieve instant payment and exchange operations. Its core layout includes a U-card and an OTC ecosystem. The U-card supports the Visa/Mastercard global network, covering ATM withdrawals and various consumption scenarios in over 200 countries. The OTC ecosystem enables one-click exchange between fiat currency and stablecoins, with funds directly reaching bank accounts, facilitating low-cost and efficient personal deposits and withdrawals as well as cross-border settlements for businesses. Currently, it has obtained MSB licenses in the US and Canada, and is steadily progressing on MTL licenses in multiple states and VARA licenses in the UAE, building a robust legal and security barrier for the interoperability of fiat currency and stablecoins through a global compliant licensing system.

Caviar: High-end consumption scenarios enable stablecoins to realize real value.

Caviar, a Web3 luxury cross-border e-commerce platform within the SFI ecosystem, leverages ecosystem liquidity to seamlessly integrate stablecoin consumption transactions, filling a gap in high-end stablecoin consumption scenarios. The platform focuses on exclusive luxury goods and IP co-branded products; top-tier items such as Lamborghini watches and Fendi thermos flasks can be purchased directly with stablecoins. It also innovates with a gamified "caviar blind box" gameplay to enhance user engagement. Simultaneously, a portion of e-commerce profits is used to repurchase ecosystem tokens, building a positive flywheel of "consumption - token appreciation - re-consumption," with ecosystem liquidity providing the underlying support for its continued operation.

COPX: An AI-driven asset appreciation engine that enables stablecoins to increase in value through liquidity.

As the asset appreciation hub of the SFI ecosystem, COPX leverages the ecosystem's deep liquidity to achieve efficient trading across multiple asset classes, ensuring low slippage and near-instant execution. As an AI-driven global financial aggregation platform, its core advantages lie in its AI intelligent trading strategies and innovative incentive mechanisms: An AI strategy engine driven by machine learning technology allows ordinary users to enjoy professional quantitative trading services, significantly lowering the barrier to stablecoin appreciation; the "trading as mining" mechanism ensures that 70% of the platform's tokens are generated through trading activity, coupled with the DAO governance dividend model, truly realizing "trading as a shareholder."

RWA Incubator: A strategic engine connecting traditional finance and Web3, building a boutique investment bank for digital assets.

As a core component of SFI's strategy in the RWA (Real-Time Coin) sector, the RWA Incubator leverages initial liquidity support within the ecosystem to facilitate rapid project launch and operation. Positioned as a boutique investment bank in the digital asset world, it provides a one-stop service encompassing "investment + incubation + industry connection" within the stablecoin sector. On the investment side, it focuses on seven key areas, including stablecoin issuance and RWA on-chain implementation. On the incubation side, it empowers projects across four dimensions: funding, compliance, traffic, and resources, sharing SFI's global core resources. On the industry connection side, it breaks down barriers between traditional finance, brands, exchanges, and Web3 innovation projects. The team spearheaded one of Hong Kong's earliest RWA projects in 2019. Based on its professional capabilities and comprehensive empowerment system, it projects to achieve over HKD 77 million in revenue and over HKD 50 million in profit by 2027, becoming a core bridge connecting traditional finance and Web3.

RWA Exchange: A new benchmark for compliant trading, providing a professional trading platform for RWA assets.

The SFI ecosystem-exclusive RWA exchange focuses on the RWA sector, providing retail and institutional clients with a full range of services including spot, futures, OTC, and wealth management. The ecosystem provides comprehensive liquidity support, ensuring market activity and stability. Its core advantages are highlighted in three dimensions: First, an institutional-grade risk control system, employing multiple models to manage risk throughout the entire trading process; second, a comprehensive growth system, integrating a global network of broadcasters, a community of 500,000 high-net-worth individuals in Europe and America, and over 1,000 Chinese community channels to achieve efficient user growth across multiple regions; and third, a professional team and resources, featuring a multi-billion dollar trading technology team and deep collaborations with mainstream exchanges such as Kucoin and Gate, possessing proactive market-making capabilities for new cryptocurrencies and creating sustainable wealth effects for projects.

III. Building Core Barriers through Ecological Collaboration: SFI Anchors New Direction for Ecological Development in the Industry

With the Solulu Club liquidity program as its core, SFI's five major ecosystems are deeply interconnected and mutually empowering, creating a triple synergy of traffic, data, and brand. This constructs a golden closed loop for stablecoins, encompassing everything from fiat currency exchange to asset appreciation, from consumption to investment exit. Users can complete all aspects of stablecoin asset operations without leaving the ecosystem. This core capability is not only SFI's core competitive advantage but also precisely aligns with the Web3 industry's trend from single-point breakthroughs and simple integration to ecosystem collaboration and network effects.

In terms of traffic synergy , a positive flow chain of "incubation-trading-value-added-consumption-feedback" is formed by relying on core liquidity support: high-quality projects incubated by the RWA incubator are listed on the RWA exchange, users achieve intelligent asset appreciation through COPX, and the appreciated stablecoins can be used for high-end consumption on Caviar, or for offline consumption and convenient fiat currency withdrawal through Solulu Pay. The user's operations at each stage continuously contribute liquidity to the ecosystem, feeding back into the efficient operation of the entire chain. In terms of data synergy , the operational data of each segment are interconnected. Payment data optimizes COPX AI trading strategies, transaction data accurately allocates ecosystem liquidity, and investment and consumption data provide scientific basis for RWA incubation, thereby driving continuous improvement in ecosystem operational efficiency through data. In terms of brand synergy , the five major segments share global media, KOLs, community and cooperation resources. The advantages of each segment empower each other, forming a market influence far exceeding that of a single product, achieving a two-way benefit for the brand and the ecosystem.

It is this comprehensive, closed-loop ecosystem collaboration model that has made SFI a benchmark for the ecological development of the stablecoin sector. It has not only solved the core pain points of the industry, such as "lack of scenarios, poor circulation, and isolated value," but also set a new direction for the development of the sector, namely compliance, scenario-based approach, and integration of data and reality. This has propelled the stablecoin sector into a new stage of ecosystem collaboration.

Conclusion: 2026 marks the golden age of stablecoin RWA, with SFI leading the industry in reshaping a new global value interconnection order.

In 2026, stablecoins and the RWA sector ushered in a golden age of development. The continuous improvement of the global regulatory framework defined the compliance boundaries for the industry, and the accelerated entry of traditional financial institutions injected real momentum into the sector. The demand for the integration of the real economy and the Web3 economy rose to a new level, the value carrier role of stablecoins continued to stand out, and the on-chaining of RWA assets became the core theme of industry development. The sector is ushering in a critical turning point from "concept realization" to "scale explosion".

Standing at a pivotal point of industry transformation, SFI's stablecoin value network, built through a comprehensive ecosystem collaboration model, has long transcended the scope of a single platform, becoming a core engine driving the large-scale development of the sector. Its underlying liquidity architecture, centered on Solulu Club, lays a solid foundation for the full-scenario circulation of stablecoins, driving continuous breakthroughs in daily payment penetration. The full-chain RWA service system breaks down the barriers between traditional assets and the digital world, attracting more trillion-dollar traditional assets to complete their on-chain transformation. Furthermore, its ecosystem collaboration development paradigm is propelling the stablecoin sector from "fragmented competition" to "ecosystem co-construction," making compliance, ecosystem development, and digital-real integration the mainstream of industry development.

In the future, guided by SFI's elite management philosophy of professional dedication and ecosystem co-construction, the stablecoin sector will usher in a new industrial landscape: traditional finance, top global brands, and Web3 innovation projects will deeply integrate to form a globally interconnected stablecoin value network. Stablecoins will also evolve from crypto trading tools into a core link in reconstructing the underlying payment system of global finance. This ecosystem revolution initiated by SFI will ultimately break through the boundaries between digital and physical reality, promoting the implementation of the next generation of decentralized economy and making value interconnection a new foundation for global financial development. SFI will continue to focus on value sharing, working with global partners to create an open, secure, and sustainable new global digital financial ecosystem in the golden age of stablecoin RWA, enabling value to circulate seamlessly between reality and Web3, leading the industry towards a brighter future.

Disclaimer: The content above is only the author's opinion which does not represent any position of Followin, and is not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as, investment advice from Followin.
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