What is Toku?

Toku is a global payroll and employment platform that enables companies to pay teams in fiat, stablecoins or tokens while Toku handles all compliance, tax and cross-border complexity. It gives crypto and Web3 companies a faster, more modern way to manage payroll without overhauling their existing systems.

While many companies struggle with the complexities of paying international teams in digital assets - often resorting to manual wallet transfers and spreadsheets - Toku automates the entire lifecycle. They integrate directly with traditional HRIS systems (like Gusto and ADP) to handle payroll and tax compliance in over 100 countries.

Toku ensures that when a company pays in stablecoins, they remain compliant with local tax laws, and when an employee receives digital assets, they get the seamless experience of a standard paycheck, delivered directly to their wallet.

Why Toku Joined Global Dollar Network

Toku joined Global Dollar Network not to add another digital dollar to their platform, but to align with a standard that reflects their focus on compliance, reliability and aligned economics. They needed a digital dollar that strengthens payroll across three critical dimensions.

• Compliance as a product: Payroll is one of the most regulated financial flows inside any organization. Toku needed an issuer that treats compliance with the same rigor they do. With USDG issued under a multi-jurisdictional regulatory framework, Toku can offer clients a digital dollar that meets the expectations of global finance teams.

• Economic upside: By joining Global Dollar Network, Toku earns rewards for driving adoption of USDG across their platform. This creates a new economic incentive for expanding digital-dollar payroll, turning growth into a measurable source of upside for Toku as they scale.

• Enterprise-grade infrastructure: Toku’s mission is to make stablecoin payroll "boring" - meaning reliable, invisible and safe. Partnering with Global Dollar Network allows them to build on infrastructure designed for institutions, ensuring that payroll runs perfectly every time, whether for a team of ten or ten thousand.

By joining Global Dollar Network, Toku sets a new standard for employee compensation, establishing USDG as a premier digital currency for the global workforce.

Toku is Making Stablecoin Payroll Routine with USDG

Payroll still runs on rails built before the internet existed. Cross-border wires are slow, FX fees reduce take-home pay and employees who want digital assets often have to move money through multiple intermediaries just to participate in the digital economy.

Stablecoin payroll solves these problems. For employees, earning a portion of their paycheck in a regulated stablecoin delivers four major benefits.

• Instant access: Funds arrive immediately instead of days later through ACH or international transfers. Workers can use their income the moment payroll runs.

• A built-in onramp: Moving money from a bank into digital assets is slow, costly and confusing. Receiving USDG directly as income removes the friction entirely and gives employees seamless access from day one.

• Immediate utility across markets: USDG can be saved, sent, spent or deployed into on-chain applications without relying on local banking hours or settlement windows.

• Protection from local currency volatility: For employees in markets with unstable currencies, earning in a regulated digital dollar preserves purchasing power and reduces exposure to FX swings.

The benefits are clear for employees, but the employer side has historically been a challenge. Stablecoin payroll required manual wallet transfers, spreadsheets and inconsistent compliance workflows. None of it scaled for enterprise HR or finance teams.

Toku changed this by integrating USDG directly into its global payroll platform, giving companies a default digital dollar that works inside the systems they already use.

How Toku Uses USDG Today:

• Seamless HR integration: Employees can elect to receive part or all of their salary in USDG directly within Toku’s payroll portal, just like selecting a bank account. HR teams keep their existing workflows. Toku handles everything behind the scenes.

• Instant global settlement: Employers fund payroll in USDG, and employees receive their income immediately into self-custody or custodial wallets. For international teams, USDG removes the delays and uncertainty of traditional cross-border banking rails.

• Regulated trust: Toku selected USDG because it aligns with their compliance-first mandate. USDG is issued under a multi-jurisdictional regulatory framework, giving employers confidence that digital-dollar payroll meets internal legal, tax and risk standards.

By offering USDG as a payroll option, Toku helps global talent move beyond the limits of traditional banking and into a more accessible, flexible financial future.

Improving the Financial Lives of Global Talent

Stablecoins are only as useful as the ways people can access and use them. 

Toku’s integration of USDG shows how digital-dollar payroll can be both compliant and practical at global scale. By offering USDG as a seamless payroll option, Toku gives employers a faster, more reliable way to pay distributed teams and gives employees immediate access to a stable, programmable dollar they can use anywhere. 

Together, Toku and Global Dollar Network are setting a new standard for modern payroll, proving that income can move as quickly and efficiently as the internet itself.

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