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Your Grocery Run Is Now a DCA Strategy
Lolli’s new card-linked cashback quietly embeds Bitcoin accumulation into everyday spending, turning routine purchases into a passive, always-on DCA stream with potentially significant demand-side impact.
Licensed to Shill: Banks Aren't Here for Blockchain – Their Infrastructure Is Just Broken (Jeff Ko, CoinEx)
CoinEx's Jeff Ko joins the Licensed to Shill panel to discuss the current state of crypto, institutional adoption, cybersecurity, and infrastructural challenges.
Blockcast 87 | Licensed to Shill: The Future of Crypto Payments & Settlement Layers (Colin Goltra, Morph)
Morph CEO Colin Goltra joins the panel to map the emerging infrastructure for AI-driven payments — and asks a more fundamental question: can an agent exist without a human behind it?
Blockcast 86 | Licensed to Shill: Designing Decentralization: Governance, Power, and the Validator Problem
This episode digs into what actually happens after a protocol says it’s “decentralized.” Not the whitepaper version. The operational version.
Blockcast 85 | Licensed to Shill: How Energy & Geopolitics Are Building a Bitcoin-Driven World, ft. Bitcoin Arabia's Lara Eggimann & Jeff Gorman
The panel is joined by Bitcoin Arabia's co-founders to discuss Bitcoin's role in the Middle East.
DeFi's Cash Pile is the Real Opportunity for Asset Managers in Asia
Calastone's new research on tokenised fund distribution finds APAC is the most receptive region in the world – but its biggest barrier is not legacy tech or regulation. It is the fragmented ecosystem that sits between a finished product and the investors who want it.
Crypto Crash: Liquidations & Bond Yields Surge, Hit Bitcoin
Bitcoin slips under $77K as rising yields, ETF outflows, and heavy liquidations expose a widening split between cautious whales and dip-buying retail traders.
Kevin Warsh Is Fed Chair – Bitcoin Payments Equity, Anti-CBDC Stance, First Meeting in June
The Senate confirmed Warsh 54-45 in the closest vote in the Fed's modern history. He has direct equity exposure to Bitcoin payments, crypto index management and a stablecoin venture and has publicly opposed CBDCs and backed private stablecoin issuance.
The Fed's Rate Problem Just Got Harder, and Bitcoin Felt It First
April's CPI came in at 3.8%, the highest reading since 2023, and the Iran-driven energy shock behind it shows no sign of easing — leaving the Federal Reserve boxed in and crypto markets caught in the crossfire.
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.
Franklin Templeton Taps DigiFT to Distribute Tokenised Fund in Asia
The tie-up gives DigiFT's institutional clients 24/7 access to the Benji Platform's intraday-yield tokens, as the tokenised RWA market surpassed $18.6 billion last year.
The Clarity Act: America's Turning Point for Bitcoin
Crypto’s decade-long jurisdiction fight nears a turning point as the CLARITY Act gains traction—putting Bitcoin on the brink of regulatory definition.
Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City Opens Fast-Track Crypto Licensing as BTSE Secures First Exchange Approval
The GMC framework bundles licensing and banking into a single application — and hands firms already regulated in Singapore, Hong Kong or Abu Dhabi a shorter path in.
Kevin Warsh Is Fed Chair – Bitcoin Payments Equity, Anti-CBDC Stance, First Meeting in June
The Senate confirmed Warsh 54-45 in the closest vote in the Fed's modern history. He has direct equity exposure to Bitcoin payments, crypto index management and a stablecoin venture and has publicly opposed CBDCs and backed private stablecoin issuance.
Kraken Parent Payward Cuts 150 Jobs After AI Deployment, IPO Pushed to 2027
The Kraken parent has shed roughly 5% of its workforce as AI tools reduce headcount needs, while its public listing timeline slips further as co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the company is 80% ready to go public.
Dune Cuts 25% of Staff, Citing AI as the Reason It Needs Fewer People
The blockchain data firm’s cuts arrive as AI-driven restructuring becomes the dominant explanation for workforce reductions across crypto – and scepticism about that framing grows alongside it.
Bitcoin Miners Post Heavy Losses as AI Pivot Moves From Slide Deck to Construction Site
MARA and CleanSpark both reported Q1 and Q2 results yeasterday defined by mark-to-market losses on Bitcoin holdings. The more important story is what's being built with the proceeds.
Circle Launches Agent Stack to Put USDC at the Centre of Machine-to-Machine Payments
The stablecoin issuer's new product suite — wallets, a service marketplace, and sub-cent payment rails — puts Circle directly in competition with Coinbase's x402 and Solana's Pay.sh for the machine-to-machine payments market.
SuperAI 2026 Brings Global AI Heavyweights to Singapore as Geopolitical Fractures Reshape the Industry
The third edition of Asia's largest AI conference arrives at a moment when export controls, sovereign AI strategies, and fragmented compute access are making neutral-ground convening harder to find and more valuable.
Singapore Moves to Give Banks a Workable Crypto Capital Framework
MAS launched a landmark consultation on how Singapore banks must treat cryptoassets on public blockchains, proposing lower capital requirements for stablecoins and tokenised assets that meet risk standards.
Robinhood Receives MAS In-Principle Approval for Singapore Brokerage
The U.S. retail trading platform, which already operates its APAC headquarters in the city-state, is cleared to offer securities trading, custody, and derivatives services pending final licensing conditions.
Singapore's Sandwich Class is Crypto's Most Disciplined Investor Cohort
While Gen Z churns out of the market at a 50% attrition rate, middle-income Singaporeans aged 35 to 54 are quietly accumulating, dollar-cost averaging, and holding for years.
Editors' Picks
Kelo, LayerZero, Arbitrum and DAO Custody
From a misconfigured bridge to seized assets on Arbitrum, the Kelp–LayerZero fallout lays bare how quickly “non-custodial” systems revert to human discretion under stress.
Accepting the Quote: Aave, FTX, Celsius & Being Real
Web3 keeps promising guardrails it can’t enforce, leaving users overconfident, underprepared, and ultimately more exposed when things go wrong.
Prediction Markets Are No Longer a One-Cycle Story
The $6.5 billion weekly volume record is the data point. The real story is what's changed about who's using these platforms, and why the infrastructure may finally match the demand.
Hong Kong's Stablecoin Revolution Will Be Whitelisted
The HKMA handed its first approvals to the banks that already print the Hong Kong dollar. That tells you everything about what these tokens are meant to be.
MEV: Not Suitable for Financial Markets
DRW founder Don Wilson's blunt critique of MEV cuts to a deeper flaw: blockchain market design has drifted into engineering complexity that extracts value without improving price discovery or capital allocation.
Dubai's Crypto Moment is Over – For Now
Binance is relocating staff from the UAE as the Iran war upends one of the industry's most important hubs. The question is where the talent goes next.