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Taiwan “Virtual Asset Service Law” in progress, the market is optimistic that 6 banks including CTBC may be the first to issue stablecoins. Although Taiwan’s Heng Coin previously withdrew quietly, the Financial Supervisory Commission is optimistic that, driven by supply chain payments, demand for New Taiwan dollar stablecoins will emerge.

Six Taiwanese banks as potential issuers of stablecoins

The draft of Taiwan’s “Virtual Asset Service Law” has been approved by the Executive Yuan, although it has not yet passed the third reading in the Legislative Yuan, the FSC is actively drafting subsidiary regulations, initially planning to only allow domestic financial institutions to issue stablecoins, encouraging multiple operators to try.

According to the “Economic Daily News,” six banks are rumored to be the first to issue stablecoins: CTBC Bank, Cathay United Bank, Taishin Bank, KGI Bank, Union Bank, and Taipei Fubon Bank.

These six banks’ strategies related to blockchain and virtual assets are summarized as follows:

1. CTBC Bank: Approved by the FSC to pilot virtual asset custody services, focusing on Bitcoin and Ethereum, managed via cold wallets and private key sharding technology, and previously recruited blockchain engineers publicly in 2025.
2. Cathay United Bank: Approved to pilot virtual asset custody, targeting high-net-worth individual clients, and participating in the FSC’s RWA tokenization group, planning to trial on-chain bond issuance.
3. Taishin Bank: Currently receiving custody service guidance, recently collaborating with Taiwan Exchange HOYA BIT on New Taiwan dollar trust services, providing 24/7 deposit and withdrawal services.
4. KGI Bank: After obtaining pilot qualification, partnering with MaiCoin, BitoPro, and other legitimate Taiwanese trading platforms, transferring some assets to bank cold wallets for custody, and previously launching the “KGI Coin Enjoy Card” for crypto rewards on card transactions.
5. Union Bank: Besides being approved for custody services, it also acquired about 9.67% equity in MaiCoin through investment, strengthening its participation in Taiwan’s crypto market.
6. Fubon Bank: Fubon established “TWEX Taiwan Big Virtual Asset Exchange” through Taiwan Mobile, with trust custody and cold wallet technology provided by Fubon.

In addition to these banks, Taiwan’s state-owned banks “First Commercial Bank” and “Hua Nan Bank” also expressed strong interest in stablecoins to the “Commercial Times”; E.SUN Financial Holding Chairman has also stated that the institution will not miss out on the stablecoin and tokenization markets.

Furthermore, blockchain enterprise settlement infrastructure provider Capital Layer and Taiwan’s largest system integrator, DunYang Technology, are also seen as strategic partners in stablecoin deployment.

In 2018, Taiwan’s first “Taiwan dollar stablecoin” quietly exited

On the other hand, years ago, Taiwan’s third-party payment provider Green World Fintech Services launched CryptoDT blockchain financial services and issued Taiwan Heng Coin (TWDT-ETH), using Ethereum ERC-20 token standard, each pegged 1:1 to New Taiwan dollar, with circulating Taiwan Heng Coins representing trust account backing of NT$1, and total tokens equal to the trust balance, with regular disclosures and accountant verification.

Recently, the company has repeatedly stated that “stablecoins are stored-value cards” and criticized stablecoins as hype by crypto YouTuber Qu Bo Technology Classroom, which at the time actually praised Taiwan Heng Coin as “Taiwan’s first stablecoin” and expressed high expectations for blockchain development in Taiwan.

Image source: Qu Bo Technology Classroom Facebook page. Taiwan Heng Coin launched by Green World Fintech Services was regarded as Taiwan’s first “Taiwan dollar stablecoin” at the time.

However, Taiwan Heng Coin lacked market demand and application scenarios, quickly delisted from partner exchanges and quietly exited. As Taiwan’s legal framework becomes clearer and international attention on stablecoins increases, whether Green World will restart or attract other payment providers to jump in remains to be seen.

Will Taiwan’s stablecoin be ready by 2026?

According to current draft regulations, stablecoin issuers must maintain reserves of fiat currency received, and are not allowed to pay interest or rewards, raising questions about future profit models for issuers.

Informed sources told the “Economic Daily News” that the purpose of banks issuing stablecoins is to further explore opportunities in blockchain finance and real-world asset tokenization (RWA).

Deputy Chairperson of the FSC, Zhuang Xiuyuan, previously revealed that some Taiwanese import-export traders have begun actual transactions using stablecoins. As the amount of stablecoins held by traders gradually increases, they will inevitably seek to connect with traditional financial institutions.

After years of failure of Taiwan Heng Coin, is the market truly ready for Taiwan stablecoins? Zhuang Xiuyuan said, she is optimistic that, driven by supply chain payment demands, domestic demand for New Taiwan dollar stablecoins will emerge, and the role of financial institutions at this time is to provide seamless integration between fiat and stablecoins.

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