Biptap Named One of 10 Crypto Projects to Watch in 2025
As reported by International Business Times
On January 21, 2025, International Business Times published a list of ten cryptocurrency projects identified as having meaningful momentum heading into what the article framed as a pivotal year for digital assets. Biptap appeared at position six, the only entry on the list building banking infrastructure rather than a protocol, decentralised exchange, or asset tokenisation platform.
In a field where most projects measure progress by token price or total value locked, Biptap was measuring it by merchant acceptance and payment volume.
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The other nine selections — among them Graphite Network, Injective, Rexas Finance, and WOO — were building financial primitives: L1 protocols with MEV-resistant order books, RWA tokenisation platforms for real estate and art, AI-blockchain hybrids. These are infrastructure plays at the protocol layer. Biptap's position was different in kind. By January 2025 the company reported 200,000 users, $120 million in monthly transaction volume, access to 61 million merchant locations, and a Banking-as-a-Service product allowing third parties to deploy a branded version of the platform. The article was describing an operating payments and banking business, not a development-stage protocol.
The editorial posture of IBTimes' annual selections lists warrants acknowledgment. The article carries the standard caveats of sponsored-adjacent editorial content — a 'conduct your own research' disclaimer features prominently, and all ten selections are described in uniformly positive terms without comparative analysis. The recognition should be read as industry visibility rather than independent investigative journalism. What it captures accurately is the moment: Biptap in transition, the Omnibank thesis forming privately, the user base already at a scale most crypto-native banking competitors had not reached.
That transition would become public two months later, when the March 2025 Omnibank release formally named the category the company was building toward. The IBTimes profile documented where Biptap was standing before that statement was made — a proven payments operator, not yet a company with a named philosophy, but already operating at the depth the philosophy would require.