JPMorgan Chase’s Kinexys division announced on October 19, 2026, that JPM Coin is live on Ethereum mainnet for approved institutional clients. The dollar-denominated token, also known as JPMD, represents a one-to-one claim on deposits held at JPMorgan. Its Ethereum deployment extends availability beyond Coinbase’s Base network and allows approved counterparties to initiate peer-to-peer transfers around the clock across Ethereum Virtual Machine networks. The expansion does not make JPM Coin a retail product or open it to decentralized exchange trading. Unlike a reserve-backed stablecoin issued by a non-bank entity, JPMD is a permissioned commercial bank deposit token. JPMorgan first deployed it on a public blockchain through Base in November 2025, following a pilot with B2C2, Coinbase and Mastercard. Kinexys says it is also working to issue JPM Coin natively on the Canton Network during 2026 for privacy-enabled institutional financial market settlement.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore conducted two pilot issuances of tokenized MAS Bills settled using wholesale Singapore dollar central bank digital currency on the SGD Testnet in September and October 2026. The first issuance, on September 23, was S$1 million and matured after one week. The second was S$10 million and matures on October 23. MAS Managing Director Chia Der Jiun described the settlement initiative in an October 9 keynote at the INSEAD Digital Finance & Agentic AI Summit. The trials are limited to institutional investors and primary dealers, not retail users. They extend the SGD Testnet’s use beyond the interbank overnight lending transactions it first settled among DBS Bank, OCBC and UOB in November 2025. The pilot amounts are experimental compared with standard MAS Bill auctions, which regularly exceed S$10 billion. MAS is also consulting on amendments to the Payment Services Act for its Single-Currency Stablecoin framework, with the consultation closing on October 16.