Stablecoins in Payments: What the Raw Transaction Numbers Miss — And Why Asia Is Quietly Running the Show
Headline stat everyone quotes: stablecoins move up to $35 trillion a year on-chain. Headline stat...
Singapore Invests S$220 Million in Fintech, Digital Assets and AI
Singapore is stepping up its efforts to strengthen its position as a global financial technology...
Wall Street’s $7.4 Trillion Tokenization Engine Just Went Global
Broadridge Financial Solutions, the New York-listed fintech giant that quietly became the biggest name in...
Russia Launches Digital Ruble as Bitcoin Payments Remain Banned
Russia is taking another major step toward state-controlled digital money. On September 1, 2026, major...
AI Agents Are Now Paying With Bitcoin — Who’s Watching the Guardrails?
AI agents didn’t wait for permission. Over the twelve months to April 2026, autonomous software...
Alpaca Taps Kalshi to Bring CFTC-Regulated Prediction Markets to Its Brokerage Rails
Alpaca, the API-first brokerage platform used by hundreds of fintechs and trading platforms worldwide, has...
Singapore Investors Are Leaning on Brokerage AI Tools to Read Markets and Manage Portfolios
Platforms like Tiger Brokers, Moomoo and Longbridge are rolling out AI copilots that digest earnings,...
Why Asia’s Family Offices Are Finally Taking Bitcoin Seriously
Family offices have spent the past few years moving from the sidelines of the digital...
Vietnam’s Export Surge Fuels DBS Optimism — and a Crypto Investment Signal
Vietnam’s export engine is running hotter than almost anyone expected heading into the second half...
ASOCIO Digital & AI Summit 2026: Why Jakarta Is About to Become Asia-Oceania’s AI Capital for a Week
Indonesia will host 24 economies, 500+ international delegates and the region’s first dedicated AI Summit...
CZ: Bitcoin to Overtake Gold — Prediction From Hong Kong
Of this week’s three big Bitcoin headlines, one stands apart for a blog covering the...
₿itCoffee in Vietnam: Interview with Founder Anton
Anton wanted to build more than a coffee shop with his Bitcoin café — he...
3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Could Hit a New All-Time High in 2026
Bitcoin has made a strong comeback in August, briefly moving above $80,000 after a prolonged...
Hong Kong Brokerage Forthright Bets on 5% Crypto Allocation as HK-Singapore Rivalry Heats Up
A licensed brokerage’s Bitcoin Asia debut is a small data point in a much bigger...
Stablecoin Card Spending Set to Quadruple to $50 Billion a Year by 2028: RedotPay
Global spending on stablecoin-linked payment cards is on track to quadruple over the next two...
Bitmine’s ETH Buying Spree Continues: Firm Edges Closer to 5% of Ethereum’s Supply
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has kept up a buying streak that now stretches back 14 months,...
Pakistan Opens Crypto Licensing Portal
Pakistan has moved from talking about crypto regulation to enforcing it. On August 23, 2026,...
Bitcoin Asia 2026: What to Expect in Hong Kong
On August 27–28, 2026, Hong Kong turns into Asia’s unofficial Bitcoin capital for two days....
Why You Should Attend TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026
The world’s largest crypto event returns to Marina Bay Sands on 7–8 October 2026, and...
HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Interoperable Tokenized Deposit Transaction on Swift’s Blockchain Ledger
On August 19, 2026, HSBC and Standard Chartered completed the first live, interoperable tokenized deposit...
Standard Chartered Becomes First Global Systemically Important Bank to Issue Digital Notes on Euroclear’s D-FMI
Standard Chartered has issued USD 200 million in three-year floating-rate Digitally Native Notes (DNNs) on...
CoinFerenceX and The Best Event Join Forces to Launch “CoinFerenceX The Best Event Singapore,” the Decentralised Summit
CoinFerenceX and The Best Event are joining forces to launch CoinFerenceX The Best Event Singapore,...
Coinfest Asia 2026: Inside Bali’s Biggest Crypto Beach Festival — A Photo Recap
The sun, the sand, and a whole lot of on-chain energy: #CoinfestAsia just wrapped its...
Bank of China Hong Kong Teams Up With Ant International on AI Treasury
Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK) and Ant International have announced a strategic partnership...
Singapore Launches Professional Services Centre to Anchor Regional Business Expansion Network
Singapore has opened a new Professional Services (PS) Centre designed to help companies navigate cross-border...
Stablecoin Cards Are Gaining Ground in Asia as USDT and USDC Move Into Everyday Payments
Stablecoins are moving beyond crypto trading and increasingly becoming a payment tool in Asia. New...
Ripple: Could XRP Reach $10 as the Company Expands Across Asia?
SEOUL – Ripple is continuing to expand its presence in South Korea’s financial sector. On...
OSL and Circle Bring Compliant USDC Liquidity to Asia-Pacific Institutions
Hong Kong-based digital asset platform OSL has onboarded more than $200 million in USDC deposits...
Alpha Arena Heads to Bali: MEXC Ventures-Backed Trading Championship Set for Its APAC Debut on August 20
Alpha Arena’s grand final is set to touch down in Bali, Indonesia, on August 20,...
Cambodia Moves Toward Regulating Digital Assets
Cambodia is taking another step toward establishing a clearer legal framework for cryptocurrencies and other...
Malaysia’s Ringgit Steadies on Strong Fundamentals Despite Global Headwinds
Malaysia’s ringgit has held up better than most of its regional peers this year, a...
Johor Is Building Asia’s Largest Compute Pipeline — and Malaysia Is Wiring the Settlement Rails to Match
A Singaporean operator closed RM5.6 billion in green financing for its Johor campus this week....
Kraken Is Advertising 42% APY on Crypto. Bitcoin Holders Get 0.02%.
A plain-English look at how Kraken’s “Auto Earn” works, why the rates differ so wildly,...