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Bitcoin Holds Above $81,000 Despite Regulatory Setback, Fed Hike
Bitcoin shrugged off a failed Senate crypto bill and the Fed’s first rate hike since 2023. With ETF inflows returning, $82,500 is now the level that matters.
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 Holds Above $81,000 Despite Regulatory Setback, Fed Hike
Bitcoin shrugged off a failed Senate crypto bill and the Fed’s first rate hike since 2023. With ETF inflows returning, $82,500 is now the level that matters.
Bitcoin Reclaims $81,000 as Altcoins Rally, Crypto Stocks Post Their Best Session in Months
Coinbase, Strategy and Robinhood all jumped more than 9% Friday on Wall Street's read of the SEC's tokenized-stock framework, while Hyperliquid, Zcash and NEAR led a broader altcoin surge that pushed the total market back above $2.8 trillion.
Crypto, Stocks Rally Post-Rate Hike; Zcash Hits All-Time High
Zcash surged to a record high on a Paradigm disclosure and altcoins outran Bitcoin, even as spot Bitcoin funds extended a seven-session, $1 billion outflow streak and crypto-linked stocks slid the next day.
Warsh's First Shot: How the Fed's Hike Is Repricing Crypto Markets
Warsh’s first Fed hike has redrawn crypto’s macro playbook: with the 10-year Treasury hovering around 5%, sticky inflation and ETF outflows are tightening the liquidity backdrop for Bitcoin and Ether.
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.
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.
SEC, CFTC Move Unilaterally on Crypto Rules Days After Clarity Act's Senate Defeat
A five-year exemption lets permissioned venues run AMM-based markets in tokenized stocks, while a broadened no-action position frees passive software providers like wallets and DeFi front ends from broker registration, both issued within hours of each other.
South Korea Refers 18 Polymarket Users to Prosecutors Over $12.7 Million in Prediction Market Bets
Police used public blockchain records to identify 26 bettors in total, arguing that wagering on Polymarket's yes-or-no contracts meets the legal definition of gambling regardless of how the platform is structured.
Senate Clarity Act Collapses in 50-49 Vote: Crypto’s Regulatory Hopes Dashed Until 2027
A failed Senate vote has killed hopes for near-term crypto market-structure rules, opening the door to more agency enforcement and a costly political fight heading into the midterms.
ByteDance Secures $29.6 Billion Loan From Nearly 30 Banks to Fund AI Buildout
The unsecured, three-year facility ranks as Asia's second-largest loan of the year and shows how far Chinese tech giants are willing to lever up to compete in AI infrastructure.
AI's Biggest Rivals Just Agreed to Slow Down, But Wall Street Is Betting They Won't
The same week Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk converged on a call to pace AI development, Nvidia was reportedly negotiating a $10 billion anchor position in what could become the largest IPO in history.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Says Its Most Capable Model Yet Might Be AGI
The model is the first from OpenAI to cross its own "critical" threshold for cybersecurity risk, and its launch sharpens a parallel question about how autonomous AI agents will actually pay for what they do.
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.
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.
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.
Singapore Stablecoin Payments Firm dtcpay Extends Series A to $25 Million as SBI Group Joins as Strategic Investor
The Japanese financial group is backing dtcpay through two investment vehicles as it looks to build digital-asset links between Japan and Southeast Asia, adding to a round Vertex Ventures led in March.
Gemini Wins Full Singapore Payment License After 23-Month Restructuring, Joining Coinbase and OKX
The Major Payment Institution license lets Gemini offer spot trading, custody and OTC services in one of Asia's most sought-after crypto hubs, following an April 2025 shift of its Singapore customers to a newly incorporated local entity.
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.
Editors' Picks
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.
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.