There’s a speck of paradise in the Pacific, smack between Hawaii and Australia, where 42,000 souls dodge rising costs and brain drain like extras in a post-apocalyptic surf flick.
Enter the Marshall Islands, our hero, stepping up to slay the dragon of poverty with a universal basic income, an UBI scheme that’s equal parts safety net and blockchain fever dream.
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Traceable transfers across remote atolls
The call to adventure hit late November. Every resident citizen scores quarterly drops of about $200—$800 a year total, to fend off the living-cost apocalypse and keep people from fleeing to greener pastures.
No one’s job gets axed, this is pure morale rocket fuel, as Finance Minister David Paul roared to The Guardian.
“We want no one left behind,” he declared, painting UBI as the ultimate social sidekick, not a work-killer.
But here’s the quest’s twist, experts say payments zing through bank deposits, dusty paper checks, or a slick government digital wallet on the blockchain.
Crypto option? A US dollar-pegged stablecoin for zippy, traceable transfers across remote atolls that make FedEx weep.
Funded by a $1.3 billion trust, Uncle Sam’s guilt money for nuking the place decades back, with another $500 million pledged through 2027, this beast overcomes island-hopping logistics like Indiana Jones cracking a booby-trapped tomb.
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The Marshall Islands is launching blockchain-based UBI, giving citizens dollar-denominated tokens they can receive, store, and send peer-to-peer from their phones.
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Blockchain at country scale
Dr. Huy Pham, RMIT’s crypto-fintech wizard, hails it as the world’s first national UBI rollout. Highly unusual, he smirks, and he’s not wrong. Blockchain at country scale? That’s new.
But the hype is pretty modest so far, crypto uptake’s a flop so far. Social Security stats show 60% grabbing bank wires, most of the rest clutching checks.
Digital wallet heroes? A measly dozen. Remote paradise or not, people cling to the familiar like cats to curtains.
Crypto UBI
Our hero returns transformed. Marshall Islands didn’t just launch a simple UBI. That would be boring, right?
So they fused it with crypto, staring down economic demons with a stablecoin grin. Will the world follow this Pacific pirate into the blockchain horizon?
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📅 Published: December 18, 2025 • 🕓 Last updated: December 18, 2025
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