JPYC Turns One, and Its Biggest Market Isn’t Japan
A year after launch, Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin does most of its trading in...
Kazakhstan Offers Tax Residency for Crypto as Bitcoin Miners Exit
Kazakhstan now officially accepts crypto investments as a route to tax residency, and Bybit has...
Standard Chartered Launches Bitcoin and Ether Trading for Affluent Clients in the UAE
The London-based lender, which has deep roots in Asia, now lets eligible clients in the...
Bitcoin as Collateral: Jeonbuk Bank Becomes South Korea’s First Bank to Lend Against BTC
South Korea’s banks have stayed away from crypto for years. Now one has stepped in....
Not Your Stack, Not Your Coins: Why Self-Custody Isn’t Trustless
Bitcoin doesn’t eliminate trust. It moves it. The Accusation Self-custody is not the same as...
Uzbekistan’s Ipak Yuli Bank Lands USD 80M Club Loan
Ipak Yuli Bank, one of Uzbekistan’s established commercial lenders, has secured a USD 80 million...
Tether and Kazakhstan’s Central Bank Explore a Tenge Stablecoin
The world’s largest stablecoin issuer has signed a memorandum with the National Bank of Kazakhstan...
Russia Licenses First Crypto Providers: Sberbank and VTB on Board
On October 6, Russia’s central bank added nine companies to its new registers for digital...
Beyond the Bonus: How Data Is Reshaping Crypto Casino Comparison
The crypto gambling industry has changed considerably from its early Bitcoin-only days. What began as...
Why Blockchain Life 2026 in Dubai Is Worth Attending
On December 1–2, 2026, the crypto industry meets at the Festival Arena in Dubai. Blockchain...
Trading Journal: How to Track, Review and Improve Every Crypto Trade
A trading journal turns every trade, winning or losing, into a lesson you can actually...
Singapore Weighs Bitcoin Tax Break for Family Offices
Singapore’s central bank is reviewing whether investments such as Bitcoin and other digital payment tokens...
Ripple and Meritz Securities Team Up on Tokenization in South Korea
The Seoul-based broker will assess how Ripple’s digital asset infrastructure could fit into Korea’s capital...
MerdekaL1 Completes Phase 1 of Malaysia’s Post-Quantum Blockchain
Malaysian developer e23 has finished building the core network of MerdekaL1, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain with...
Litecoin Foundation and DeLorean Team Up: LTC to Be Accepted for Upcoming DeLorean EVs
The Litecoin Foundation has partnered with DeLorean Labs, the Web3 arm of the iconic car...
South Korea’s $449B Crypto Market Pulls Away From the Pack as AI Tokens Take Over Won Trading
Chainalysis’s 2026 East Asia report shows a region with two personalities: retail-driven Korea and stablecoin-heavy...
SoftBank Completes $3.1B DigitalBridge Deal as AI Squeezes Bitcoin Miners
Japanese group now controls a global digital-infrastructure investor with assets from Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur,...
Visa Study: Vietnam and India Lead Asia’s Stablecoin Appetite
Stablecoins are on the radar of a growing share of consumers across Asia-Pacific, but turning...
GCash Parent Mynt Prices Record Philippine IPO at P6.60
The listing would bring the country’s dominant e-wallet, and its in-app crypto marketplace, to public...
The End of Cut-Off Times? How Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank Are Tackling Crypto’s Settlement Problem
Kraken’s parent company Payward has integrated Singapore Gulf Bank’s real-time clearing network. Institutional clients in...
Hong Kong and Indonesia Move to Link QR Payment Systems in Latest Push for Asian Payment Connectivity
Hong Kong and Indonesia have agreed to work toward letting their QR payment systems work...
HSBC RedCoin: Hong Kong’s Largest Bank Names Its Stablecoin as Crypto Oversight Tightens
Hong Kong’s largest bank has named its stablecoin, and the city’s regulators are pulling licensed...
Binance Pay Goes Live at PayPay: Tourists Can Now Spend Crypto Across Japan
Foreign visitors to Japan can now pay with crypto at millions of PayPay merchants nationwide,...
Ducat Brings Bitcoin-Backed Credit to TRON
Ducat, a CMC Labs incubatee, is integrating its Bitcoin-backed credit system with the TRON network,...
Kazakhstan Plans $60 Million Tokenization Push
Kazakhstan plans to tokenize up to $60 million worth of real estate and logistics projects...
Kazakhstan Builds $700 Million National Crypto Reserve
Kazakhstan is building one of Central Asia’s most ambitious digital-asset strategies, with the country’s national...
Airmarkets Reviewed: A CFD Broker with Broad Range, Weak Regulation
350+ markets, one platform, zero detours: Airmarkets puts forex, crypto, commodities, and stocks right on...
HighMarkets Review: A Broad CFD Platform Built on TradingView — With an Offshore Catch
HighMarkets gives traders access to forex, indices, commodities, stocks, and crypto CFDs through a TradingView-powered...
Japan’s Metaplanet Expands Bitcoin Strategy to Hong Kong
Japan’s Bitcoin-focused company Metaplanet is expanding its operations across Asia with a new wholly owned...
India Pushes BRICS Toward a Digital Currency Network
India is pushing for closer links between the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) of BRICS...
India Takes Corporate Bonds Onchain With Demat 2.0
India has launched Demat 2.0, a new pilot project that brings tokenised corporate bonds onto...
Kazakhstan’s AIFC Accepts First Regulatory Fee Payment in Stablecoins
The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) has announced the first successful payment of a regulatory...
Kyrgyzstan and CertiK Team Up on Blockchain Security
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic and CertiK have signed a memorandum of understanding...