Key Takeaways HDR Global Trading will shut BitMEX down completely on September 23, 2026. BitMEX invented the perpetual swap in 2016, a product other exchanges later copied. Users face a $50 or 1% monthly fee if they leave funds on BitMEX after September 23. HDR Global Trading Limited, the exchange’s parent company, announced the closure…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has officially granted MariBank Philippines Inc. a digital banking license, reclassifying the institution from a rural bank to a digital bank under central bank regulations. The regulatory shift was…
Key Takeaways Sota Watanabe urged Japan to cut the 55% tax rate on DeFi yields to keep local liquidity from moving offshore. The JBA seeks to build on Japan’s 20% spot crypto tax by extending separate taxation to staking and on-chain yields. Startale aims to unify competing yen stablecoins on Soneium to power 2026 enterprise…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — When the world speaks of investments in Asia, it usually centers around established financial hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong. Yet today, the rapidly changing blockchain and digital asset investment…
Key Takeaways Flatiron Institute solved a 2026 quantum problem on a laptop, challenging beyond-classical claims. Joseph Tindall’s tensor networks matched quantum simulations, reshaping quantum computing debates. Science paper from May 21, 2026, may guide quantum materials and optimization research next. A problem that’s been held up as out of reach for classical machines just got…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Chamber of Thrift Banks (CTB) opened its 52nd Annual Convention on July 15 in Makati City, prioritizing the integration of artificial intelligence and digital services alongside traditional banking. The event gathered banking executives, regulators,…
Key Takeaways Coinbase traced the 50-minute outage to an undetected Kubernetes resource name collision during a routine infrastructure update. The incident disrupted transfers, Coinbase Card debit purchases, institutional settlements, and onchain services across multiple platforms. The outage also disabled Coinbase’s normal rollback process, prompting new safeguards and infrastructure changes. Coinbase Explains What Went Wrong Crypto…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. SwiftPay, the enterprise payments arm of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)-regulated Swift Technology Ventures Inc., has launched SwiftGuard, a real-time fraud-detection and decisioning layer aimed at helping local banks and BSP-supervised financial institutions (BSFIs) comply…
Key Takeaways CNBC and Statista included Ripple among the world’s top fintech companies for 2026. Digital asset businesses accounted for 40 of the 500 companies selected. XRP is gaining additional institutional channels through regulated payments, European market access, and investment products. Blockchain Moves Beyond the Crypto Hype Digital assets are moving from speculative markets into…
Key Takeaways Artificial intelligence (AI) priced, managed and settled all 104 World Cup matches end to end. Turnkey partners took over $1.14B in stakes at an 18% trading margin. Kambi weighs a prediction-market entry but 70+ licenses bar a US launch. Kambi Runs $1.14B World Cup, Now Weighs Prediction Markets Kambi declared its first entirely…
