London, UK – Tuesday 14th October 2025 — Zodia Markets, the digital asset platform reengineering how institutional capital moves, has formally submitted the term “stablecoin” to Merriam-Webster for dictionary inclusion, calling on the publisher to recognise one of the most widely used words in modern finance.

Although stablecoin appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, Collins and on Dictionary.com, it is still absent from Merriam-Webster, the most referenced U.S. dictionary and the default source for many global spell-check systems.

Emma Critchley-Lloyd, Chief Marketing Officer, Zodia Markets explains, “Every time someone on LinkedIn, WordPress, Microsoft in ‘U.S. English’, Slack, Zoom, Substack, Grammarly… I could go on… writes stablecoin, it’s flagged as wrong. If Merriam-Webster adds it, that single change propagates across all of those platforms and the red squiggle of shame disappears for everyone at once.

Words shape culture. When the U.S.’s most referenced dictionary doesn’t recognise the very thing driving the next generation of finance, it’s our chance to put that right while making a serious point about mainstream adoption and our role in accelerating it.”

The call comes as U.S. dollar–denominated stablecoins account for roughly 99% of the global stablecoin market with an approximate $245 billion in circulation. In their submission, Zodia Markets highlight the extensive use of stablecoin across U.S. regulatory documents, congressional hearings (including the GENESIS Act), Treasury and Federal Reserve reports and major financial media outlets such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

The company’s campaign aims to unite the financial and technology communities behind the effort, encouraging clients, partners and industry friends to join the call for recognition.

Critchley-Lloyd continues, “Across Washington, Brussels and beyond, policymakers are debating how to regulate stablecoins, not whether they exist. The absence of the word from Merriam-Webster is ironic given how embedded it’s become in financial infrastructure, particularly in the US.

Our call may be lighthearted compared to the scale of innovation and policy discussions shaping this industry, but its message is an important one. Recognition matters. Stablecoins aren’t a future concept, they’re part of everyday finance and should be recognised in language as such.”

Zodia Markets recently completed its Series A funding round, with capital deployed to support the expansion of its stablecoin-based payments orchestration capabilities. The company’s push for stablecoin to be formally defined in Merriam-Webster mirrors its vision to reshape how finance moves by building the infrastructure that allows institutional capital to move seamlessly and securely across borders in real time.

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About Zodia Markets

Zodia Markets is a digital asset platform reengineering how institutional capital moves. It offers digital asset trading across multiple currencies, settling near-real-time for institutional and professional clients. Backed from inception by SC Ventures, the innovation arm of Standard Chartered, and OSL Group, Asia’s leading digital asset company, the firm bridges traditional foreign exchange and digital markets to enable real-time cross-border flows with operational certainty.

Supporting over 70 digital assets and 20+ fiat currencies, Zodia Markets provides deep liquidity, seamless execution and T+0 settlement capability. With entities in the UK, Ireland, Jersey, Abu Dhabi and Dubai the firm is also developing a modular stablecoin infrastructure and is a design partner for Circle Payments Network, helping to deliver programmable, multi-currency settlement solutions for the next evolution of capital markets.