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Top Crypto Stories This Week: From Korean Election Hype to Chinese ETF Hype
An exciting week in Asia for crypto but could the coming weeks be even better? Only South Korea's opposition party and Hong Kong regulators know the answer
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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.
Zcash's Nine-Year Losing Streak Against Bitcoin Just Ended
Bitwise and Placeholder are reading three unrelated signals — a technical breakout, a volatility-yield divergence, and a BSC leverage frenzy — as the same warning about underpriced risk.
Japan's Yen Rescue Is Quietly Undermining the Bitcoin Trade It Helped Create
Tokyo and Washington's first joint currency intervention in 15 years is designed to do the one thing that would remove the entire premise behind Metaplanet's bitcoin treasury.
Trump's Truth API Made Money in Week One, Two Letters to SEC About It Still Unanswered
A week after launch, Trump Media's data-licensing product already has paying institutional clients while its bitcoin treasury has lost more than half a billion dollars — and two congressional letters to the SEC are still unanswered.
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MUFG Wants Japan's Bond Market Settling in Seconds, Not Days
Japan's largest bank is testing real-time repo settlement for government bonds on the Canton Network — without tokenizing the bonds themselves
Bitwise's Solana ETF May Become the First Tokenized US Fund Shares
The $622 million BSOL fund would keep its legal structure and investor rights unchanged — only how ownership gets recorded would move onto a blockchain
Tether Finally Gets the Audit It Spent Years Saying Was Coming
KPMG issued a clean opinion on Tether's 2025 books, physically counted every gold bar in its reserves, and confirmed a $6.8 billion surplus — replacing years of quarterly attestations with something regulators and critics can't wave away as a snapshot
Norway's Sovereign Fund Hit Record Bitcoin Exposure Without Buying Any
NBIM's indirect BTC exposure crossed five digits for the first time in H1 2026 — almost entirely because one of its equity holdings, Strategy, kept accumulating