The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) published the 2026 edition of its 101 Real-World Blockchain Use Cases Handbook, pulling together live projects from more than 100 institutions across public and private sectors.
The value also lies in seeing which Asia Pacific deployments have moved beyond the pilot stage and the problems they are solving.
The 10 use cases below cover identity, cross-border settlement, tokenised sukuk, wholesale market infrastructure, and stablecoin-enabled loyalty across the region.
1. Moca Network: The Identity Layer for Programmable Payments
Animoca Brands is building Moca Network, an infrastructure stack that combines reusable identity credentials, embedded stablecoin wallets and interoperable loyalty rewards on a single chain.
Its AIR Kit lets developers embed a universal account into any application, so users complete KYC once and reuse the verified credential across services.
The wallet layer supports fiat-to-crypto onboarding through card payments, with off-ramps back to bank accounts in supported markets. It targets the fragmentation that has kept stablecoin adoption behind broader digital wallet uptake in the region.
2. Chainlink and ANZ Under the HKMA e-HKD Pilot
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD Pilot Programme Phase 2 tested cross-border settlement of Fidelity International’s tokenised money market funds using wrapped e-HKD from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group’s DASChain.
Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol relayed the tokenised money and identity credentials between permissioned and public chains, keeping personally identifiable information off-chain while enforcing compliance checks in real time.
Visa and China Asset Management also participated. It is one of the more advanced live tests of privacy-preserving interoperability between regulated digital money and public networks.
3. CAICT’s ASTRON Network: Cross-Border Digital Trust
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) is building ASTRON Network as a “permissioned public blockchain” to support cross-border data flows and identity recognition between Mainland China and its trading partners.
Super nodes are live in Mainland China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macau, with international nodes planned in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mongolia.
The GBBC report says the China-Singapore Electronic Bill of Lading project, which received recognition from Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, is one of its early cross-border trade deployments.
4. Bhutan National Digital Identity
Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) issues each citizen a single decentralised identity that works across public services, from healthcare to banking, without a central data store held by the state.
The GBBC report frames it as a way to bring Bhutan’s unbanked population and its diaspora into the same financial system, letting them save, invest and transfer money using their NDI wallet regardless of location.
It is a rare example of self-sovereign identity deployed at a national scale.
5. Soramitsu’s Fraud Intelligence Blockchain
Japan-founded Soramitsu, together with UK-based ORILLION, operates the Fraud Intelligence Blockchain (FIB), a shared ledger where telecom operators, vendors and regulators exchange data on fraudulent numbers, IP addresses and devices.
The relevance is direct. Telecom fraud data is a core input for authenticating cross-border payment attempts, mobile-money transactions and SIM-swap risk in the region’s payments infrastructure.
The consortium model shows how competitors can share sensitive intelligence without handing it to a central intermediary.
6. Points-to-Crypto: retail loyalty converted to stablecoins
The Asia FinTech Alliance and Taiwan FinTech Association highlighted BitoPro’s partnership with FamilyMart, which lets 20 million FamilyMart digital members convert loyalty points into USDC directly through the retailer’s app.
According to the GBBC report, FamilyMart issued 48.5 billion FamiPoints in 2022, of which 40 per cent went unredeemed. Converting them into stablecoins with no transaction fee gives users a route out of what is otherwise a stranded balance sheet liability for the brand.
It is one of the few live implementations of retail loyalty feeding directly into on-chain assets in the region.
7. Labuan IBFC: Tokenised Sovereign-Backed Sukuk
Malaysia’s Labuan International Business and Financial Centre hosts Fusang, a regulated digital securities exchange that has tokenised sukuk issued by the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM).
The Fusang Depository Receipt structure represents each sukuk as an ERC-20 token, cutting the minimum investment from institutional-scale amounts to USD 100.
Since launch, 29 tokenised sukuk instruments have been issued with a total issuance value of USD 458 million, according to the GBBC report. Islamic banks have used them as high-quality liquid assets to meet regulatory capital requirements under Basel III.
8. Project Acacia: Australia’s Wholesale Tokenisation Programme
Project Acacia, run jointly by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre between November 2024 and May 2026, tested 20 wholesale tokenised asset use cases with industry participants and the country’s three main financial regulators.
The final report proposes a regulatory sandbox for digital financial market infrastructure, continued exploration of tokenised government bond issuance, and further work on interoperable commercial bank deposit tokens.
Australia now sits among the more structured jurisdictions on wholesale tokenisation policy.
9. OKX and Intercontinental Exchange: Tokenised Equities with 24/7 settlement
Hong Kong-linked exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, are building tokenised representations of equities that trade around the clock with near-real-time settlement.
The pilot is in internal beta, with broader rollout planned across the second and third quarters of 2026. The GBBC report singles out retail investors in Southeast Asia and Latin America as the target beneficiaries.
If it holds at scale, it could reshape how regional retail brokerages route international equity flows.
10. Fudan University: On-Chain Product Provenance
Fudan University’s International School of Finance piloted a consortium blockchain with skincare brand Natural Beauty that gives each product a decentralised identifier, with lifecycle data signed as verifiable credentials at every step from raw material sourcing to point of sale.
It sits outside the usual fintech remit. However, the underlying architecture, which combines DIDs, verifiable credentials and permissioned ledger access for regulators, is close to what payments providers and merchant onboarding platforms are testing for KYB and counterfeit-risk assessment in the region.
