Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support stablecoins on Solana, letting U.S. users send Circle's USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, across borders starting in the last week of October, the Solana Foundation announced Wednesday.

The feature will be available on 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices at launch, with built-in fiat on- and off-ramps converting to and from local currency. Solana's infrastructure will operate "behind the scenes," according to the official announcement, titled "Samsung Partners with Solana to Natively Deliver Stablecoins in Samsung Wallet to 82 Million US Galaxy Devices."

The integration places stablecoin transfers inside Samsung's own wallet software on Galaxy devices in the United States. Because Samsung Wallet ships-installed on Galaxy phones, the launch gives stablecoin transfers a mainstream distribution channel that extends beyond dedicated crypto apps.

BREAKING: Samsung partners with Solana to bring stablecoins to 82 million US Galaxy devices. Samsung Wallet users in the US will be able to send money across borders using USDC on Solana, beginning the last week of October. pic.twitter.com/r5KSR92V58

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"Stablecoins have the potential to make moving money around the world faster and easier, and we want Galaxy users to be able to take advantage of that without having to navigate the complexity of traditional crypto tools," said Woncheol Chai, head of the digital wallet team at Samsung Electronics' mobile business.

"Samsung's decision to work with Solana puts digital dollars into everyday life through one of the world's most trusted technology brands," said Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, the organization behind the Solana blockchain.

Samsung's stablecoin plans

Samsung said at its Galaxy Unpacked event in London in July that Samsung Wallet would add native stablecoin support, showing a mockup of a wallet holding USDC. At the time, the company did not name a launch date, an issuer or a blockchain.

The release names Solana and USDC, but it does not say whether Circle is a formal partner, whether users will hold their own private keys, or what transfers will cost.

Stablecoin supply on Solana has grown nearly 20% year over year, and the network has processed more than $5.25 trillion in stablecoin volume in 2026, according to the Foundation. The organization cited PayPal and Western Union among enterprises already using Solana for stablecoins, and Visa has also tapped USDC on the network for payment settlement.

Samsung's push into digital assets is not new. The company launched a blockchain wallet for Galaxy phones in 2019 and has since added cryptocurrency support on the Galaxy S20, integration with the Stellar blockchain and connections to hardware wallets. Last October, it brought Coinbase access into Samsung Wallet for 75 million U.S. users.

Solana Mobile, the network's smartphone arm, released the Saga handset in 2023 and followed with the Seeker last year. The unit airdropped its SKR token to Seeker users, though not to Saga owners.

"99% of people thought that [Yakovenko]'s initiatives around phones were dumb. I also thought the same thing for a while," Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani wrote on X after the announcement, adding that "the early work on the Solana Mobile Stack" made the Samsung deal possible.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko responded: "99/100 founder led initiatives are dumb. Doing nothing is also dumb. That's basically why startups are hard."

According to the release, additional markets will follow the U.S. launch, subject to local regulatory requirements.