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Philippines' Largest Digital Wallet GCash Adds USDC Support
The country's largest digital wallet platform now offers support for stablecoins via USDC.
Mar 24, 2025, 5:32 a.m.
What to know:
- GCash, the Philippines' largest digital wallet, has announced support for stablecoins via USDC, expanding Circle’s stablecoin network to its approximately 100 million users.
- The digital wallet owned by China's Ant Group, Ayala Corporation, and 917Ventures, handles over $65 billion in annual transactions and offers crypto services through its GCrypto subsidiary.
- Despite recent reports of a potential $8 billion IPO, GCash is is no hurry to go public after a funding round, which valued the firm at $5 billion.
GCash, the largest digital wallet in the Philippines, has announced support for stablecoins via USDC.
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Publicly available data shows that GCash, which is similar to China's Alipay or WeChat Pay, does over $65 billion (3.8 trillion Philippine Pesos) in annual transaction volume.
Filipino remittances reached a record $38.3 billion in 2024, and account for approximately 8%-10% of the country's GDP.
Alipay owner-Ant Group, Ayala Corporation and Manilla-based Globe Telecom's 917Ventures own GCash operator Mynt. GCash offers crypto services via its GCrypto subsidiary, which has partnered with locally licensed crypto exchange PDAX.
In total GCrypto offers 39 different assets to trade on its platform, including Paypal's PYUSD stablecoin. Stablecoin-based transfers are growing as a share of the market but remain relatively small, with less than 5% of all inbound remittances using crypto rails.
Recently, Bloomberg reported that GCash could seek an IPO valuation of at least $8 billion by the end of 2025.
The company, reportedly, is in no rush to go public as it recently completed a funding round that raised its valuation to $5 billion, giving it enough capital and flexibility to wait for favorable market conditions.
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