Kazakhstan’s central bank explores stablecoin and tokenization projects with Tether

# Kazakhstan’s central bank explores stablecoin and tokenization projects with Tether

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent media report of an exploratory memorandum
> Source: [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/07/tether-tapped-by-kazakhstan-s-central-bank-to-explore-stablecoin-and-tokenization)
> Published: 2026-10-07
> Captured: 2026-10-08T02:58:17.049Z

## Source summary

CoinDesk reports that Kazakhstan's central bank, Tether and the Alatau City Authority signed a memorandum to study a tenge-linked stablecoin and tokenised assets. The parties plan research, a pilot proposal and staff workshops; Tether's Hadron is one technology under consideration. The memorandum is exploratory and does not commit the central bank to issuing a stablecoin or deploying Tether's platform.

## Why it matters

The initiative concerns possible digital-money infrastructure; a research memorandum is not a launched payment instrument.

## Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Web3 & stablecoin payments
- Entities: National Bank of Kazakhstan / Tether / Alatau City Authority
- Web3 payments
- Cross-border payments

## Evidence and credibility note

Source body read; source claims, event stage and limits remain attributed.

Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-10-07T14:27:37.110Z

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original CoinDesk report](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/07/tether-tapped-by-kazakhstan-s-central-bank-to-explore-stablecoin-and-tokenization)

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