Day: 29 April 2026

Hong Kong is rapidly shaping a multi-track digital finance system where stablecoins, tokenized bank deposits, and central bank digital money are evolving side by side, showing a broad transition in how money moves across Asia’s financial hubs. The city’s approach is not centred on a single innovation but on parallel ...

A new report from Binance Research suggests that crypto adoption could accelerate rapidly over the next decade as platforms continue removing the barriers that once made entry difficult. Titled “Industry Watch: The Next Billion Users Won’t Choose Crypto — They’ll Fall Into It,” the report introduces the Friction-Elimination Model, which ...

South Korea is moving closer to implementing its long-delayed cryptocurrency tax regime, with authorities now building the technical and reporting infrastructure ahead of a planned January 2027 start. The National Tax Service (NTS) has begun developing data systems to collect exchange information, integrate blockchain analytics, and prepare cross-border reporting under ...

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South Korea’s Hana Financial Group, POSCO International, and Dunamu have moved beyond experimentation, signing a trilateral agreement to roll out a blockchain-powered remittance system for real-world trade. From pilot to live transactions Announced on Wednesday, the deal marks a transition from proof-of-concept testing to live deployment, with POSCO International set ...

Corporate clients of Stable Sea can now earn yield on idle operating cash following a new partnership with asset manager WisdomTree. The integration allows businesses to deploy stablecoin balances into tokenized money market funds, marking a step forward in bringing traditional finance products onchain. https://t.co/Uhy5CPW7tf — WisdomTree Prime® (@WisdomTreePrime) April ...

Circle has added an additional 500 million USDC into the Solana ecosystem, significantly boosting weekly minting activity in April 2026. According to Arkham Intelligence, this issuance was conducted via the Circle: USDC Mint Authority, raising the total USDC minted on Solana to over $3.25 billion in one week. This expansion ...

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin financing model is facing closer scrutiny as STRC, a perpetual preferred stock paying an 11.5% floating dividend, becomes a key funding channel for ongoing Bitcoin accumulation. The instrument sits within MicroStrategy’s broader capital structure and functions as a high-yield vehicle tied indirectly to Bitcoin exposure, while also ...

A vulnerability that ultimately led to ZetaChain’s recent exploit had already been flagged through its bug bounty program, but was dismissed as expected behavior. The revelation, shared in a post-mortem on Wednesday, has ignited criticism from users and security researchers who argue that the oversight reflects deeper flaws in how ...

Fluent (BLEND) surged 147% within 24 hours after South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, announced spot trading support for the token. $BLEND is the native utility token of Fluent, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that completed its TGE on April 24 and has rapidly secured listings on Coinbase, ...