IMF urges Nepal to tighten crypto oversight as flows persist Nepal banned crypto trading and mining in 2021, but the money never fully left. The IMF says digital asset flows have continued anyway, with stablecoins increasingly used for cross-border payments and transfers outside the formal banking system. Crypto inflows rose after Nepal’s 2021 ban Stablecoins […]
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Washington’s crypto deadline is real: lawmakers have just 16 legislative days to move the CLARITY Act before the August recess, and the pressure is now coming from both the crypto industry and the banking lobby. CLARITY Act is being sold as the biggest U.S. crypto bill yet 16 legislative days remain before Congress breaks for […]
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MassPay and Coinbase are joining forces to take a proper swing at one of finance’s most annoying relics: expensive, slow cross-border wires. The partnership uses USDC-based settlement to move enterprise payouts across 180 countries with less friction, less capital trapped in limbo, and fewer reasons for businesses to hate international payments. USDC-based cross-border payouts Enterprise […]
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South Korea is stepping up its crypto-crime crackdown, and Chainalysis is now part of the toolkit. The blockchain analytics firm has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) to help investigators track illicit virtual asset flows, with North Korea-linked theft and laundering squarely in the crosshairs. Chainalysis + KNPA — […]
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Cecabank has launched crypto custody services, another sign that traditional banks are finally treating bitcoin and digital assets as something more than a passing headache. Cecabank launches crypto custody Traditional banks keep moving into digital assets Institutions want exposure without self-custody risk Custody helps adoption, but centralization comes with it The Spanish financial institution is […]
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DBS is putting physical gold on blockchain rails for retail customers, and that is a genuinely useful use case, not just another shiny crypto sideshow. Singapore’s largest bank is preparing a tokenized gold product that will let everyday users buy, trade, and eventually redeem real gold through its banking app, with each token backed by […]
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Futu Securities has become the first brokerage in Hong Kong approved to offer securities-backed financing for virtual asset trading, giving eligible clients a new way to use traditional market credit to buy and sell crypto, following SFC approval for securities-backed crypto trading financing in the city. SFC approval expands Futu’s Type 1 license Eligible clients […]
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Spain’s Cecabank has launched a MiCA-regulated crypto custody and trading platform for financial institutions, with Renta 4 Banco already using the service and Bit2Me handling the trading and liquidity side. MiCA-regulated crypto custody and trading Renta 4 Banco among the first users Bit2Me provides trading, liquidity, and market access European passporting underway in Ireland, Portugal, […]
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The CLARITY Act, Washington’s long-promised crypto market structure bill, has hit another brick wall in the Senate after bipartisan talks over ethics language fell apart and law enforcement objections refused to go away. CLARITY Act stalls again in Senate talks Republicans reportedly walked back a tentative ethics deal BRCA language has law enforcement worried about […]
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Bitcoin miners are getting squeezed by brutal difficulty, weak BTC pricing, and almost nonexistent transaction fee income, while a growing number are chasing AI and high-performance computing revenue just to stay alive. Mining difficulty is near 139 trillion hashes All-in BTC production cost is around $85,000 BTC price sits near $62,000, leaving many miners underwater […]
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