In a bold pivot amid Beijing's escalating crackdown on stablecoins, Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce unit is exploring deposit tokens to streamline overseas transactions, leveraging stablecoin-like blockchain technology. Alibaba president Kuo Zhang revealed in a CNBC interview that...
In a landmark move signed in Singapore, Swiss banking giant UBS has partnered with Ant International—Alipay's global fintech arm—to revolutionize cross-border treasury operations through tokenized deposits. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) leverages UBS's Digital Cash platform,...
Vietnam launched a national blockchain platform designed to serve as the backbone for its expanding digital ecosystem.
On Friday, Vietnam announced the state-run blockchain network, which will...
Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency—a digital form of money that can be sent from anyone to anyone, anywhere in the world, without requiring...
OSL Group, one of Asia’s leading digital asset platforms, has raised $300 million through an equity financing round, marking the largest publicly disclosed capital...
Hong Kong’s stablecoin licensing regime, set to begin on August 1, is drawing significant interest from the region’s financial and tech heavyweights, with local media...
Chinese blockchain Conflux announced a third version of its public network and introduced a new stablecoin backed by offshore Chinese yuan.
According to a report from...
On July 8, 2025, Aplus, a credit card and financial services company under Japan’s Shinsei Bank Group, collaborated with SBI VC Trade, the cryptocurrency exchange division...
The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), South Korea’s integrated financial regulator, has recommended asset management firms “not to excessively include” crypto stocks like Coinbase and...
DeepSeek, China’s leading publicly available AI, anticipates that numerous prominent altcoins will achieve new all-time highs in the second half of 2025, spurred by...
Prosecutors are investigating a possible link between the former South Korean First Lady Kim Keon-hee and a crypto market maker suspected of manipulating the...
