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What High Bond Rates Mean for Bitcoin
Global bond yields are at levels Bitcoin has never traded through, draining liquidity from risk assets as gold emerges as the preferred safe haven and Japan’s rising rates threaten to unwind the carry trade.
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.
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?
What High Bond Rates Mean for Bitcoin
Global bond yields are at levels Bitcoin has never traded through, draining liquidity from risk assets as gold emerges as the preferred safe haven and Japan’s rising rates threaten to unwind the carry trade.
Bitcoin Nears $70,000, Ether Jumps 18% as Treasury Liquidity Move, White House Meeting Trigger Short Squeeze
A Treasury bond buyback expansion, a new SEC crypto offering rule, and Trump's push for Congress to advance the Clarity Act landed within 48 hours, wiping out roughly $1.9 billion in mostly short positions.
The Short-Squeeze Mirage: Decoding Bitcoin’s Coordinated Whale Attack Amidst Geopolitical Fog
Bitcoin’s market looks quiet on the surface, but $169 million in highly leveraged short positions is building pressure around a narrow $62,400–$64,400 range—setting up a potential squeeze or sharper breakdown.
Strategy Didn't Touch Its Bitcoin Last Week – It Sold Stock Instead
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
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.
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.
Binance Cuts Off HTX and 10 More Platforms as EU Sanctions Take Effect
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
Blockchain Association Asks Supreme Court to Settle Whether the Fed Can Just Say No
The industry's biggest lobbying group backs Custodia Bank's petition arguing the Federal Reserve has no discretion to deny master accounts to eligible state-chartered banks – a question Kraken's own path around the same wall already shows has more than one answer
Cryptolink's Shutdown Is AUSTRAC's Dry Run for a Blanket Crypto ATM Ban
The regulator dismantled Australia's largest cash-to-Bitcoin network using powers it already had; the AML/CTF bill now before Parliament would let it do the same to the whole sector without waiting for a company to fail first.
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
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.
MAS Adds Bybit to Investor Alert List as Singapore Flags Unlicensed Exchange
The listing is not a ban or a finding of wrongdoing, but it signals that Singapore users dealing with Bybit have no regulatory recourse if something goes wrong.
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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?
A One-Day Gap, a $500K Bet, and the Governance Crisis Polymarket Can't Outgrow
A disputed $800K payout over Strategy’s Bitcoin sales has escalated into a New York lawsuit that cuts to the core of Polymarket’s model – whether a prediction market can rewrite its own rules after the outcome is already known.