{"id":67600,"date":"2026-02-05T05:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/south-african-firms-launch-a-local-currency-backed-stablecoin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:38:06","slug":"south-african-firms-launch-a-local-currency-backed-stablecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/south-african-firms-launch-a-local-currency-backed-stablecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Firms Launch a Local Currency-Backed Stablecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>A consortium of South African firms has launched ZAR Universal (ZARU), a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to the local currency. Transparency and Reserve Management A consortium of South African financial and fintech firms\u2014Luno, Sanlam Specialised Asset Management, Easyequities, and Lesaka\u2014has unveiled ZAR Universal (ZARU), a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to the South African rand. The partners describe [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/south-african-firms-launch-a-local-currency-backed-stablecoin\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) A consortium of South African firms has launched ZAR Universal (ZARU), a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to the local currency. Transparency and Reserve Management A consortium of South African financial and fintech firms\u2014Luno, Sanlam Specialised Asset Management, Easyequities, and Lesaka\u2014has unveiled ZAR Universal (ZARU), a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":67601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}