Sygnum: Institutional clients are no longer betting on a single stablecoin and are demanding a unified platform for multi-tool interoperability

Thomas Eichenberger, Chief Strategy Officer of Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum, stated on Thursday that institutional clients are no longer waiting for a single stablecoin to prevail, but are instead demanding the integration of tokenized deposits, regulated stablecoins, and tokenized money market funds within the same infrastructure to achieve interoperability, allowing treasury departments to flexibly switch between permitted settlement, 24/7 cross-border flows, and on-demand liquidity yields.

Sygnum has already launched a Swiss franc stablecoin testing project this year in collaboration with Swiss banking institutions such as UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen, and Zürcher Kantonalbank. At the infrastructure level, Eichenberger pointed out that most institutional discussions still default to using private chains, but actual operators are leaning towards a "public but permissioned" model, which combines public infrastructure with regulated access control.

In addition, the Qivalis alliance, composed of 37 major banks from the European Union, plans to launch a digital euro by the end of this year, with the banking industry's autonomous push directly challenging European Central Bank President Lagarde's stance on central bank-led digital currencies.