Circle Foundation funds UNDP, WFP stablecoin payment trials
Circle Foundation announced grants for separate digital-payment trials with the United Nations Development Programme and the World Food Programme on Sep. 25. The work centers on regulated stablecoin payments for development and humanitarian programs, with one trial framed around a Digital Asset Innovation Pool and another around payment corridors and country testing over the next three years. [12780] [13054] [17608]
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UNDP and WFP are the immediate focus, because each is getting support for separate payment trials tied to development and aid work. That means the teams running those programs will have a live setup to examine digital-payment workflows rather than only planning them on paper.
Before these grants, the work was not described as having a dedicated Digital Asset Innovation Pool at UNDP or a multi-year WFP corridor test. In practice, that shifts the experimentation into named programs and preserves the broader aim of using regulated stablecoins in aid and development settings.
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