Biptap Closes 2025 with 40 Omnibanks Deployed — Sets Targets for 2026
As reported by GlobeNewswire / AP News
On December 29, 2025, Biptap published a year-end release via GlobeNewswire structured as a progress report against the Omnibank thesis it had declared publicly nine months earlier. The headline number: 40 omnibanks deployed globally. The user count had doubled from 200,000 in March to 400,000 by year's end. The company had, in the same period, completed a licensed banking partnership in Abu Dhabi, connected to the LINE and KakaoTalk ecosystems through a blockchain integration, and signed a sovereign infrastructure agreement with a national government.
User numbers doubled while monthly transaction volume held at $120 million-plus — a pattern more consistent with a consolidation of high-volume users than a dilution by low-activity sign-ups.
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The Kaia blockchain integration — connecting Biptap's platform to the LINE messaging ecosystem and KakaoTalk, which together reach more than 250 million users across Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia — was the most strategically underreported milestone of the year. LINE and KakaoTalk are not fringe applications in their markets; they are the primary communication and increasingly the primary financial interface for large populations in two of Asia's most economically active countries. The Kaia integration gives Biptap distribution proximity to that user base without requiring those users to seek out and onboard to a new banking application independently. The recurring Manila Times syndication of Biptap's releases suggests a deliberate Southeast Asian distribution strategy consistent with this move.
What 2026 Actually Requires
The December release also published the 2026 product roadmap: ATMs, loans, and full core banking services, alongside additional EVM-compatible blockchain integrations and expanded regional operations. ATMs and loans are not incremental feature additions. They are the capabilities that distinguish a payments platform from a licensed bank in the eyes of regulators, institutional counterparties, and end users. Their inclusion on the roadmap signals that Biptap's 2026 execution will be tested against banking standards — not against the lower bar of a crypto payments application.
The product additions completed during 2025 — a fiat-to-crypto onramp, a multichain exchange running USDT and USDC across Solana and Polygon, and a payment link feature — filled the gaps in the platform's functional coverage. The onramp in particular matters structurally: it closes the last point of friction between a user with fiat currency and a user operating on Biptap's multi-chain infrastructure, without requiring a third-party on-ramp service. The platform moving to own that conversion step is consistent with the broader consolidation logic of the Omnibank thesis. 2025 was the year the thesis was built. 2026 is the year the licensing, the lending, and the core banking ambition will determine whether it holds.