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THORChain's Critics Live in Delusional Glass Houses
THORChain’s history of centralization, security failures and questionable money flows is well documented. But are today’s critics getting the technical and legal arguments right – and are they applying the same standards to other major DeFi projects?
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's Liquidity Fractures Along Geographic Lines as Leverage Builds
Bitcoin’s October rally masks a more fragile market, with US demand fading, whales leaning short and liquidity concentrating in BTC at Ethereum’s expense.
Report Finds Onchain Investors Trade Tokenised Stocks While Tokenised Treasuries Sit Idle
Equities make up a small slice of the roughly $34 billion tokenised asset market yet account for 93% of its spot trading, with perpetual futures on Asian chipmakers doing much of the work.
Bitcoin Walks Into a Data Gauntlet With Yields At 2007 Highs
The ETF bid has kept Bitcoin above $80,000, but 5%+ Treasury yields and an oil-driven tightening cycle leave the market with little room for error.
Polymarket's Wild Swing Reveals Bitcoin's Fragile September
A surge in Bitcoin’s $82,500 Polymarket odds reflects a market looking for a floor, not a breakout.
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.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
The SEC Just Approved 3x Bitcoin ETFs – But is the Product Built to Decay?
The SEC’s approval of 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether ETPs opens a new lane for regulated crypto leverage—but daily resets, volatility decay and futures roll costs could make these products a costly trap for long-term holders.
Hyperliquid Confirms Singapore Registration as MAS Says Exchange Falls Outside Its Jurisdiction
The regulator, which put Hyperliquid on its investor alert list in June, says the platform's decentralised design means it does not regard it as Singapore-based, leaving one of crypto's largest derivatives venues without a major regulator.
Perps: Swaps or Futures?
Perpetual futures may borrow the name of futures, but their mechanics look far more like modern cleared swaps. The case for regulating perps as swaps starts with how they actually work, not what they are called.
Reap's Daren Guo Says Payward Deal Sped Up an Existing Roadmap, With Agentic Payments Next
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
0G Commits S$20 Million to Singapore, Makes City-State Its Global Headquarters
The decentralised AI infrastructure company is spreading the five-year pledge across operations, university research and a badminton AI project, while its token trades more than 95% below its all-time high.
Asia's Next-Generation Wealthy Want AI for Payments, Humans for Planning, Crypto From Their Private Bank
A new WealthSummit survey finds demand for crypto access among heirs running close to gold and strongest among Gen X, which puts the burden on private banks to supply it before clients who have already left the family bank look elsewhere.
Reap's Daren Guo Says Payward Deal Sped Up an Existing Roadmap, With Agentic Payments Next
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
Samsung Wallet Adds USDC on Sui for Galaxy Users in US
The launch gives a stablecoin native placement on up to 82 million US devices, though at launch users can only hold and send USDC, and the announcement does not say how they will get it into the wallet.
Only 6% of Asia Pacific Consumers Understand Stablecoins, Visa Survey Finds
The survey's strongest finding is a trust gap that favours banks and regulated institutions, which happens to be the market Visa is building its stablecoin platform to serve.
Circle to Acquire Singapore's Tazapay for $400 Million in Stock – Its Largest Deal Since Poloniex
The all-stock acquisition gives Circle direct banking relationships across 100-plus markets where more than 60% of Tazapay's $25 billion in annual payment volume already moves through stablecoins.
DAS2026 Speakers Trade Tokenisation's Promise for Its Plumbing
Speakers at the Digital Assets Association's Singapore summit spent less time on tokenisation's promise and more on capital treatment, interoperability and the human errors behind most exploits.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
0G Commits S$20 Million to Singapore, Makes City-State Its Global Headquarters
The decentralised AI infrastructure company is spreading the five-year pledge across operations, university research and a badminton AI project, while its token trades more than 95% below its all-time high.
StraitsX to Bring XSGD, XUSD Stablecoins to Monad in Early 2027
The Singapore issuer is pitching the move around card and payment settlement, though XSGD's circulating supply of about S$16.5 million shows how much room the token still has to grow outside its existing chains.
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Binance Will Judge Its Marketing on User Retention, Interim CMO Eowyn Chen Says
Chen outlines how Binance will explain tokenized stocks, crypto-backed loans and AI agents to users, and why she treats trust as the objective.
Perps: Swaps or Futures?
Perpetual futures may borrow the name of futures, but their mechanics look far more like modern cleared swaps. The case for regulating perps as swaps starts with how they actually work, not what they are called.
The Sanctions Shuffle
The problem with running a global crypto exchange from offshore is not just compliance. It is who stands behind you when a major power comes calling.
Defining Accuracy in Blockchain Analysis
A new study using real EU regulatory data finds that the multi-input heuristic can be highly accurate in some cases and completely wrong in others, raising serious questions about its use as forensic evidence.
Escalating the Prediction Markets Fight
The CFTC says federal law clearly overrides state gambling rules. The problem is that the courts have never actually said that — and the agency’s aggressive defense of Kalshi could put its own powers at risk.
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.