A New Financial Era Is Here
2025 marks a turning point for stablecoins as the world’s payment infrastructure undergoes a generational reset. After years of experimentation, stablecoins are no longer seen as fringe innovations for crypto-native use cases. Stablecoins, particularly fiat-backed ones, are now becoming the cornerstone of the future of payments. As regulatory frameworks finally catch up with the recent news of Hong Kong finalising its stablecoin regulatory regime, a new global financial standard is taking shape: the rise of a new class of compliant, accessible, and always-on rails.
But between this vision and reality lies a challenge: the Great Disconnect. The world wants instant, global payments. However, today’s infrastructure wasn’t built for it. Traditional rails come with limitations. Crypto rails are fast, but fragmented. Compliance remains complex. Institutional players remain underserved. The need for a trusted infrastructure layer that bridges both worlds has never been more urgent.
10B On-Chain and Growing
This is where StraitsX comes in. With our early compliance foundations with the world’s first regulated framework for single-currency stablecoins (SCS) and the blockchain-powered payment infrastructure, StraitsX has quietly become a trusted layer for regulated settlement at scale. Our infrastructure has already powered over US$10 billion in on-chain settled stablecoin transactions, reflecting growing traction and readiness for scale.
As we are stepping into a new era, this shift demands more than just innovation. It calls for maturity, clarity, and trust. This is why now is the right moment to reintroduce StraitsX, with a refreshed identity focused and ready for the future.
Why the Brand Refresh, and Why Now?
We are revealing more than just a new look. It’s a signal of the maturity of the infrastructure layer we have become, and the future we are helping to power.
StraitsX started as Xfers, a payment gateway company built in Singapore to address the region’s payment settlement rails and treasury flows for SME clients. Previously, we viewed stablecoins as tools to simplify cross-border treasury and enable faster, cheaper settlement between platforms. That idea evolved into StraitsX, a side project platform that matured into a regulated platform that enables purpose-built stablecoins—anchored in compliance, tested in production, and tailored for real-world payment flows.
But the role of stablecoins has evolved. They are no longer just instruments of value, but infrastructure for value movement. As digital finance also matures, this new foundation is key to enabling a scalable, programmable financial infrastructure that meets the demands of institutional players and powers global economies.
Today, StraitsX has evolved into a trusted layer for institutional-grade money movement—powering APIs, FX, tokenised currency issuance, and compliance-forward settlement across networks and geographies.
This brand refresh marks the next chapter in our journey: a global-facing identity that reflects the scale and clarity of our ambition: to deliver stablecoin rails for real-world payments.
And just like a strait, a narrow waterway connecting two vast bodies of water, StraitsX was built to connect the legacy systems of traditional finance with the open networks of the future. Not to disrupt, but to bridge. Between compliance and speed. Between trust and innovation. Between the present and the promise of borderless, real-time settlement.
Our mission remains the same, but renewed: to make payment settlement seamless, secure, and built for what’s next. Now, with a refreshed identity that’s ready to meet that future.
Our New Identity: Built for Instant Settlement at Scale
StraitsX has always stood for trust, compliance, and innovation. Today, our role has evolved from a regional stablecoin issuer to a foundational layer powering real-time, compliant payment settlement at the global scale. But as global demand for seamless, real-time settlement grows, we are evolving to reflect the scale and responsibility of the role we now play.
Our refreshed identity reflects more than just a visual update. It represents the financial infrastructure layer we have become. No longer just a stablecoin issuer, StraitsX today is a payment settlement enabler and an operating system for stablecoin-powered commerce. We power regulated tokenised currency issuance, cross-border FX, programmable settlement, and compliant access across networks.
Designed for scale and building on trust, we are enabling the next generation of real-time, interoperable financial systems. Our refreshed identity reflects our ambition to become the infrastructure layer that delivers stablecoin rails for real-world payments.
What’s Coming Next
The global shift to stablecoin-powered finance is not a distant future - it’s already here. And StraitsX is building for what comes next.
In the coming weeks, we will unveil new capabilities as part of our continuous effort to enable crypto-native institutions to access USD banking rails securely and compliantly. From enhanced APIs to expanded FX and settlement capabilities across public and private chains, these updates reflect our continued focus on bridging traditional and digital finance.
This is not a pivot. It’s the path we’ve been building towards all along.
As stablecoins move into the financial mainstream, StraitsX is ready to meet the moment. We are here to lay the rails with infrastructure that is tested, trusted, and designed for what’s next.
Our ambition is straightforward: to become the trusted infrastructure layer that delivers stablecoin rails for real-world payments. And that future is already coming into view.
From Singapore to the World Where Global Payments Take Root
Singapore has become a global proving ground for regulatory clarity, stablecoin pilots, and fintech innovation, with StraitsX at the forefront with institutional-grade stablecoin infrastructure. From powering Purpose Bound Money with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to enabling retail cross-border payment flows between Alipay+ and Grab, our stablecoins are already embedded in real-world transactions.
XSGD and XUSD are also among the first to be recognised under MAS’s upcoming Single-Currency Stablecoin framework, setting the standard for compliant and trusted digital assets. With our Major Payment Institution licence covering 6 of 7 regulated services and a growing presence across ecosystems, we are one of the most comprehensively regulated digital finance infrastructures in the region.
As our reach expands beyond Singapore, we’re laying the foundation for a truly global payment infrastructure — one that’s scalable, compliant, and ready for what’s next. Our mission is clearer than ever: to bridge the great disconnect in global payments by providing the trusted settlement infrastructure layer the world can rely on.
StraitsX isn’t just helping money move. We’re helping global payment settlements take root compliantly and at scale. Whether you're a fintech, enterprise, or protocol, if you're building on stablecoins, you’re building on us. Stablecoin rails for real-world payments.
