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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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Bitcoin Stuck in a Vice
Bitcoin is pinned in a narrow $63k–$66k band, where macro pressure and ETF flows cancel each other out—leaving price directionless, volatility compressed, and institutions signalling hesitation rather than conviction.
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.
Wall Street Calls Tokenization Strategic – Its Own Survey Says Equities Are the Exception
A new Broadridge poll of 200 financial services executives finds near-unanimous conviction on tokenization broadly, but muted enthusiasm for stocks specifically, even as onchain data shows tokenized equity transfers up more than 170-fold in a year.
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Bitcoin Stuck in a Vice
Bitcoin is pinned in a narrow $63k–$66k band, where macro pressure and ETF flows cancel each other out—leaving price directionless, volatility compressed, and institutions signalling hesitation rather than conviction.
Robinhood in Talks to Add Crypto.com's Prediction Markets
A deal would deepen a hybrid strategy already underway at Robinhood, which now routes some contracts to its own Rothera exchange while still sourcing others from Kalshi, even as Kalshi's CEO calls Robinhood a leading rival.
BitMart to Wind Down Exchange, With CEO Saying He Was Not Consulted
The shutdown lands three days after BitMEX announced its own closure, prompting Binance's CZ to warn that buying smaller exchanges carries hidden risk from legacy security flaws left by prior teams.
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.