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...
Kazakhstan and Binance Plan Regional Crypto Settlement Hub
Kazakhstan is positioning itself as a regional hub for digital-asset payments after the National Bank...
RWA Token Sale Marketing: How Asset-Backed Offers Are Winning Institutional Trust in 2026
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) have stopped being a crypto side-project and turned into one of...
Loanch Review: High Yields, Hidden Ownership Risk in Southeast Asia
Loanch is a Croatia-based investment platform that lets European retail investors fund consumer loans originated...
Penang Silicon Island: Can Malaysia’s Tax Burden Become a Barrier to Growth?
Penang is positioning itself as one of Southeast Asia’s most important technology and semiconductor hubs....
Malaysia’s Data-Center Boom Hits a Power Wall — Grid, Not Land, Now the Bottleneck
Malaysia’s AI and data-center investment story is running into a hard constraint: electricity supply. According...
Japan Turns to IOTA: How Turing Certs Makes Exam Certificates Tamper-Proof
Japan’s math certification body SUKEN has been issuing exam results digitally since June 2025 through...
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...
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...
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,...
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...