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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.
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.
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.
Strategy's New 'USD Cash' Pool Marks a Shift From Its Bitcoin-First Playbook
The company directed a week's worth of equity raises toward preferred share buybacks and a new liquidity reserve rather than adding to its bitcoin treasury.
Bitcoin Nears $81,000 as Treasury Buyback, ETF Inflows Fuel Rally
A short squeeze triggered by a Treasury bond buyback announcement has compounded with the strongest week of ETF inflows since October 2025.
The $2.6 Billion Signal and the Geopolitical Ceiling
A Treasury liquidity move, not crypto-specific news, drove the largest ETF inflow week since October 2025, and the weekend's US-Iran-driven pullback showed how little of that gain is locked in.
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.
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.
Hana, SK Telecom's Two-Year Bet on BitGo Clears Korea's Regulator
Seoul is a rare expansion story in BitGo's rough first year as a public company.
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.
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.
Visa Seeks New Stablecoin Settlement Partner After Mastercard Acquires BVNK
The payments giant's former infrastructure partner is now owned by a competitor, forcing an urgent search for a replacement
Morph Grows Its Stablecoin Ecosystem with New Payments Tool
Morph frames the launch as part of growing its ecosystem of stablecoin use cases, on top of trading and yield strategies.
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
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.
Temasek Puts Crypto Off the Table, Sets 15% AI Portfolio Target
The Singapore state investment fund cites regulatory uncertainty and its $275 million FTX loss as reasons to steer clear of digital assets, even as it continues blockchain exploration.
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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?