Shinhan Financial Group on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/shinhan-financial-group/Recent content in Shinhan Financial Group on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Feeshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Ethereum&rsquo;s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.