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- Fraud prevention is evolving around civic digital IDs, tokenization of sensitive data, and AI-driven risk scoring.
- Stablecoins have moved into real-world payments, forcing banks to tackle settlement rails, multi-chain support, and on/off-ramp integrations.
- Institutions face a choice between bolting token capabilities onto legacy systems or building cloud-first, token-native platforms for programmable money.
- In emerging markets, stablecoins slash cross-border costs and unlock liquidity, with next steps focused on last-mile infrastructure and bank interoperability.
- Major banks and exchanges are deploying DLT for asset tokenization, digital identity, and sustainability, eyeing convergence with DePIN and decentralized AI.
- Rising cloud compute costs threaten fintech AI initiatives, driving interest in decentralized GPU marketplaces to cut inference spending.
- Underlying trend: security, identity, tokenization, stablecoins, DLT, and AI are coalescing to redefine scalable, real-time global payment rails.