Key Takeaways:
India is racing toward becoming a $10 trillion economy, but according to CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta, one critical gap remains: the absence of an INR-backed stablecoin. In a detailed series of posts on X, Gupta wrote on why India has to act fast, where it is beneficial and what notions have been reserving the progress until now.
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The international stablecoin market is already over 150 billion with such market leaders as Tether (USDT) and Circle USDC. These tokens find application in the trade, the payment, as well as middle ground between the traditional and digital finance.
Despite India’s scale and rapid fintech adoption, the country has yet to roll out its own rupee-linked version. Gupta see this as an unrealized potential, given that India already has resilient payment networks via the UPI, which recorded 12 billion transactions in June 2025 alone.
“Stablecoins can lower costs, speed up payments, and expand financial access,” Gupta wrote. “The rupee should lead the digital future.”
Gupta addressed fears that stablecoins might resemble the chaos of 19th-century “wildcat” banking, when unregulated currencies circulated without proper reserves.
He countered that today’s leading stablecoins are not only backed one-to-one by safe assets but also undergo frequent audits. As an example, USDC is cash-reserved and cash-based with attestations daily and a third-party audit on a monthly basis.
Gupta postulated India could establish a even superior practice:
Such measures, he argued, would make INR stablecoins safer than banks operating on fractional reserve models, where only a portion of deposits are held in reserve.
India is the biggest remittances receiver in the world with remittances peaking above $125 billion in 2024. Nonetheless, the mechanism of transferring the money home is costly. Conventional procedures tend to be referred to SWIFT transactions, where the amount obtained by the families is affected by fees and spreads in currencies.
Gupta emphasized that blockchain-based stablecoin transfers could slash costs by up to 90%, while also enabling instant payouts directly into UPI-linked wallets.
“More money in Indian hands, less lost in intermediaries’ fees,” he stated.
It can revolutionize the remittances industry, keeping billions of dollars in the homes of families sending money instead of paying the payment providers and banks.
Certain policymakers fear that since stablecoins can settle important markets, they may also threaten government securities markets and fragment the monetary system. Gupta, though, discounted these fears:
Instead of undermining government bonds, stablecoins would lead to a rise in demand for safe assets, which would serve as a consistent buyer for Indian short-term securities, Gupta argued.
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Some countries such as Singapore, UK, EU have already outlined strict regime for stablecoins:
Far from causing instability, these frameworks have fostered both trust and innovation. Gupta noted that India has all the ingredients to follow suit: fintech leadership, digital infrastructure, and regulatory experience.
For Gupta, the issue is not just about technology but about strategic advantage. An INR-backed stablecoin could:
“Regulation turns risk into opportunity,” Gupta wrote, urging policymakers to shape the future rather than resist it.
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