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Singapore's Nium is buying its way on-chain: it acquires YC-backed Cypher for stablecoin rails
The Temasek-backed payments firm — already moving money across 100 currencies and 190-plus countries — absorbs Cypher's non-custodial wallet and engineering team to build settlement rails for stablecoin and agentic payments.
Positive-sum angle: Stablecoin settlement folded into an existing compliant network means SEA exporters could hold and move dollars on-chain without bolting on a separate crypto stack.