The pledge would make Samsung one of the first big handset makers to build stablecoins into its wallet rather than route them through partners, but it named no launch date, issuer or blockchain a month after denying a consortium tie.

Samsung has made its first direct commitment to build stablecoin support into Samsung Wallet, embracing the asset outright.

At the Galaxy Unpacked event in London, product manager Lee Dinham told the audience the app would move past cash and savings to take in new kinds of digital value, stablecoins among them. Samsung Wallet already holds payment cards, IDs, boarding passes and hotel keys; the planned addition, Dinham said, would place Samsung among the earliest large phone makers to build stablecoins directly into a handset for fast, reliable transfers.

For now it is a pledge rather than a shipped feature. Samsung stayed silent on when the capability would go live, who would issue it, and the network it would run over, and did not say whether users' funds would be held by a custodian or controlled by the users themselves. A sample Wallet screen shown during the presentation displayed Circle's USDC, though neither company confirmed they were working together.

The move would put Samsung ahead of Apple Pay and Google Wallet, neither of which supports stablecoins natively, both instead directing crypto access through outside partners. The opportunity is sizeable: total global stablecoin supply stands at about $307.6 billion.

The commitment extends a longer crypto push. In October 2025, Samsung expanded its Coinbase partnership to put crypto purchases directly inside Samsung Wallet for more than 75 million US Galaxy owners.

The on-stage pledge sits awkwardly against Samsung's recent posture. In June, the company was one of more than 140 named members of the Open USD stablecoin group, only to later reject the idea that it had any binding deal, stating that no formal discussions had taken place.

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