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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.
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.
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.
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.
The 1996 Warning & Crypto Pivot
Japan’s bond market is flashing a warning as yields hit levels unseen in decades, yet Bitcoin is surging. The next BOJ meeting could determine whether that apparent decoupling holds—or whether the yen carry trade comes roaring back.
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.
Japan to Study Blockchain-Based Settlement for Stock, Government Bonds
The Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan will form a study group this summer aimed at collapsing settlement times on one of the world's largest bond markets to near zero.
Nomura-Backed Laser Digital Becomes Japan's First New Crypto Exchange in Four Years
The registration lands a month after Japan reclassified crypto as financial instruments, positioning Laser Digital ahead of tighter institutional rules due in 2027.
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.
Bitcoin Tops $75,000, Ether Jumps 5% as Rally Continues
A White House meeting with crypto executives and a Treasury move to double bond buybacks gave the rally a policy tailwind on top of falling yields.
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
Crypto Markets Unmoved While AI Infra Stocks Rebound as Citadel Absorbs Forced Seller
The removal of a 4x leveraged forced seller sparked a sharp reversal in AI-exposed names on Thursday. The question is whether crypto has meaningfully decoupled from the same macro forces that hammered tech.
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.
Ripple Signs First Korean Regional Bank Deal With Jeonbuk Bank
The deal is Ripple's third Korean institutional agreement this year, following custody and tokenized bond work with Kbank and Kyobo Life, each covering a different piece of its infrastructure stack.
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.
Singapore Moves to Plug Crypto Tax Gaps with Mandatory Exchange Reporting
The city-state's new CARF regulations force crypto platforms with a Singapore nexus to collect tax residency data and hand it to IRAS — who'll share it with overseas authorities starting 2027.
SBI Holdings Completes Majority Acquisition of Singapore Crypto Exchange Coinhako
The deal, cleared by Singapore's central bank in mid-July, gives the Japanese financial group a regulated foothold and an established customer base in one of Asia's key crypto hubs.
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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.
What's in Store for Cryptos in Q3
Three straight quarters of losses, collapsing volumes, and ETF outflows have stripped crypto down to one question: can rates and flows stabilize the market in Q3?