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Bitcoin, Ether Jump as Fed Pause Bets Take Hold, Sending Leveraged Crypto Stocks Sharply Higher
Zcash's rally to the edge of $1,000 adds a second storyline to a broad-based risk-on move across digital assets and the equities tied to them.
Licensed to Shill: Taiwan's Banks & AI Hardware Makers Could Fuel Asia's Largest Stablecoin Corridor | Justin Wang, Capital Layer
Wang says manufacturers selling AI devices into Latin America are paying up to 11% in local transfer fees, the gap Capital Layer is betting stablecoins can close.
Licensed to Shill: Ethereum's Staking Yield Cut Won't Fix What's Actually Broken
The panel, featuring Blockhead's Tim Han, discusses why cutting ETH's risk-free rate from roughly 3% to 1.2% cannot fix a token that still has nowhere useful to go.
Licensed to Shill: Retail Barely Touches Stablecoins – Treasury & Remittance Are the Real Adoption (Jeannie Lim, Xweave)
At Xweave, Jeannie Lim says her team moved $1 million for an e-commerce client in under three minutes, cutting settlement costs 30% against a Tier 2 bank's SWIFT rate.
Licensed to Shill: DeFi's Third Phase is Tokenized Yield, and Institutions Are Already Buying In (Ben Nadareski, Solstice)
The Solana-based yield protocol has $500 million in liquidity and a delta-neutral strategy with four and a half years of trading history – but its CEO's bigger argument is about what most DeFi investors still fail to check before they deposit.
Bitcoin, Ether Jump as Fed Pause Bets Take Hold, Sending Leveraged Crypto Stocks Sharply Higher
Zcash's rally to the edge of $1,000 adds a second storyline to a broad-based risk-on move across digital assets and the equities tied to them.
A Hollow Recovery?
Bitcoin has recovered 31% from its lows, but the capital behind that recovery remains questionable. Whale accumulation is rising while retail distributes, stablecoin growth stays muted and leveraged derivatives drive volume—leaving $77,000 as the next critical test.
Bitcoin Ownership Overtakes Gold in America, But Not Value
Bitcoin ownership has overtaken gold among US adults, and a Treasury buyback announcement has pulled the dollar, gold and Bitcoin into the same trade.
Crypto Stocks Post Double-Digit Weekly Gains as Bitcoin Nears $80,000, With Circle the Outlier
Strategy, Coinbase and MARA all posted double-digit weekly gains that tracked Bitcoin almost directly, while Circle fell on stablecoin-competition worries even after a strong week of its own.
AI Agents Could Close the Wealth Gap in Emerging Markets – Or Widen It
Crypto promised to democratise finance in Southeast Asia. The results were mixed. AI agents could be a second chance, but only if the infrastructure is built for everyone, not just those who can already afford a seat at the table, argues Morph CEO Colin Goltra.
The Retail vs. Institutional Divide: How Trading Patterns Reveal Two Completely Different Markets
As ETFs, corporate treasuries, and tokenized real-world assets absorb supply, the old four-year retail cycle is giving way to a macro-driven, institution-led regime where liquidity concentrates, volatility compresses, and value accrues to utility over hype.
Industry Inflection Point: How 2026 Will Define Enterprise Adoption of Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Asset Class
Bhau Kotecha, co-founder and head of Paxos Labs, explains why programmable stablecoins are becoming core financial infrastructure—and how institutions can capture value beyond payments.
Crypto Wasn’t on the Ballot in Japan, But the Mandate Will Shape It
Sota Watanabe, CEO of Startale Group and founder of Astar Foundation, discusses how Japan's snap election could affect crypto tax and regulatory reforms.
G20 Finance Ministers Pledge 'Responsible' Digital Asset Rules, Again Without Specifics
The Asheville statement tasks the Financial Stability Board with reviewing cross-border stablecoin risk, but leaves the actual rulebook to individual regulators.
Sberbank's $46 Billion Bet: Russia's Regulated Crypto Market Takes Shape
Russia has opened its crypto market to regulated trading, with Sberbank forecasting $46.4 billion in first-year volume as Moscow brings digital assets deeper into its financial system.
SEC Proposes Overhaul of Transfer Agent Rules, Naming Blockchain Directly
The proposal stops short of creating a separate category for onchain transfer agents, opting instead to write blockchain recordkeeping into the existing rulebook that has governed the role since paper stock certificates were standard.
Licensed to Shill: Taiwan's Banks & AI Hardware Makers Could Fuel Asia's Largest Stablecoin Corridor | Justin Wang, Capital Layer
Wang says manufacturers selling AI devices into Latin America are paying up to 11% in local transfer fees, the gap Capital Layer is betting stablecoins can close.
Licensed to Shill: Taiwan's Banks & AI Hardware Makers Could Fuel Asia's Largest Stablecoin Corridor | Justin Wang, Capital Layer
Wang says manufacturers selling AI devices into Latin America are paying up to 11% in local transfer fees, the gap Capital Layer is betting stablecoins can close.
Ionic Digital Posts First Public Earnings, With AI Leasing Now 90% of Revenue
The $35.3 million net loss was driven almost entirely by a non-cash bitcoin markdown and a tax provision, not by the underlying leasing business the company pivoted to after its Nasdaq debut.
Wall Street Is Getting Pickier About Which Bitcoin Miners Actually Execute on AI
MARA and CleanSpark both posted double-digit revenue declines this earnings season, but Bernstein split their ratings – and new research shows the market's honeymoon with AI-pivot announcements is fading fast
Cloudflare Completes Machine-Payments Stack With Stablecoin Wallet for AI Agents
Cloudflare Wallets lets AI agents hold stablecoins and pay for APIs and content directly, closing the loop on infrastructure it started building a month ago
Ethena Launches Ethena Pay, a Self-Custodial Neobank Built Exclusively on Avalanche
The app gives Ethena's USDe stablecoin a route into everyday spending just as the token's circulating supply has fallen by more than 70% from its September 2025 peak.
Singapore Fintech Funding Falls to Decade Low, But Crypto Deal Count Holds Up
KPMG's Pulse of Fintech report shows Singapore investment dropping to $499 million in H1 2026, with capital concentrated in a single mega-round, even as digital assets and cryptocurrency accounted for more deals than any other vertical.
Dunamu, Visa Partner to Explore Stablecoin Payment, AI-Driven Financial Services
The Upbit operator and the global payments network unveiled a roadmap in San Francisco covering OUSD-based business models, cross-border remittances and agentic commerce, days after Visa joined MAS's BLOOM initiative and signed a separate stablecoin MOU with Shinhan Financial.
Revolut Launches Euro Stablecoin EURR as It Cuts Off Tether Across Europe
The token arrives days before Revolut removes USDt from the EEA and Switzerland entirely, tying its stablecoin debut directly to Europe's MiCA licensing regime.
Singapore is Now BitGo's Largest Trading Desk
The expansion arrives as the newly public custodian works to show that revenue growth, up nearly 80 percent last quarter, can translate into profit.
Singapore Proposes Stablecoin License With 100% Reserves, No Holder Interest
MAS opened a consultation on the legislative amendments needed to bring its 2023 stablecoin framework into force, formalizing a protected "MAS-regulated stablecoin" label as regulated tokens are already being piloted in payment and settlement projects across the city-state.
Singapore Fintech Funding Falls to Decade Low, But Crypto Deal Count Holds Up
KPMG's Pulse of Fintech report shows Singapore investment dropping to $499 million in H1 2026, with capital concentrated in a single mega-round, even as digital assets and cryptocurrency accounted for more deals than any other vertical.
The Fine Print in Singapore's New Fund Tax Break That Crypto Managers Should Read
Hong Kong just wrote digital assets directly into its carried-interest tax law. Singapore's competing package leans on an older, asset-neutral scheme that Singapore's crypto funds already use, leaving the crypto-specific certainty to Budget 2027.
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The ColdCard "Hack" Should Not Be Called Theft
ColdCard’s security failure exposes an uncomfortable truth about self-custody: if private keys are meant to be the final authority, users cannot invoke the legal system whenever that authority produces an outcome they did not intend.
The Fine Print in Singapore's New Fund Tax Break That Crypto Managers Should Read
Hong Kong just wrote digital assets directly into its carried-interest tax law. Singapore's competing package leans on an older, asset-neutral scheme that Singapore's crypto funds already use, leaving the crypto-specific certainty to Budget 2027.
Coinfest Asia's 2026 Edition Adds Institutional Track for Stablecoins, Tokenization
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The ENS DAO Treasury Mess
A simple, profitable protocol with little real governance is now facing a treasury fight it was always heading toward—ENS’s looming payout exposes how incentives, not ideals, have shaped its DAO from the start.
Circle's Claimed Impotence
Circle tells a Wisconsin court it can’t seize USDC, while regulators argue it’s choosing not to, setting up a rare, real-time clash between technical design, contractual wiggle room, and outright defiance of a seizure order.
Bitcoin's Quiet Civil War Reaches Breaking Point
BIP-110’s forced activation path and a parallel fork threaten to turn a technical dispute into a live chain-split risk just as Bitcoin searches for a price floor.