MoonPay, Upbit parent Dunamu explore stablecoin payments, GIWA expansion

The pairing is notable less for stablecoin payments themselves than for what it signals about the infrastructure layer: a payments provider and a major exchange operator jointly looking at a proprietary Layer 2 suggests stablecoin settlement is being treated as a distribution question, not just a product one. South Korean exchange groups have largely kept their on-chain ambitions domestic, so any move toward global access for GIWA would be a meaningful shift in posture. With no terms or timeline disclosed, whether this remains a exploratory arrangement or hardens into something concrete is the open question.