Samsung Wallet switches on USDC trading and transfers for 82M Galaxy devices

Samsung Wallet is now in the stablecoin business. The company switched on USDC trading and transfers inside its wallet app for users in the United States, according to a post from @WatcherGuru on X. The feature lands on the default wallet app that ships with Samsung's phones — not some standalone crypto app buried in an app store.

The reach is the headline: 82 million compatible Galaxy devices in the US can tap into it. That's a ready-made distribution pipe, already sitting on the home screen of tens of millions of phones. Samsung didn't have to convince anyone to download anything new.

USDC is a dollar-pegged stablecoin, the kind of token built to hold a steady value rather than swing with the market. Putting trading and transfers for it inside a mainstream phone wallet pushes stablecoins one step closer to ordinary phone behavior. Until now, that territory belonged mostly to dedicated crypto exchanges and wallets.

The announcement, as posted, didn't detail fees, transfer limits, verification requirements or a phased roll-out schedule. It also didn't say which US users get it first. For now, the number that matters is 82 million — and the fact that a phone maker just made stablecoin rails a built-in feature.