Crypto

🇰🇷 CONNECT: More companies are adding crypto to their balance sheets, but is it the right move for every business? FinHarbor’s Ilya Podoynitsyn says the decision should start with whether crypto makes sense for the company’s financial position and risk tolerance.

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🇰🇷 CONNECT: The GENIUS Act “gives the green light to the market,” according to @Edenaofficial Capital Partners’ @wooklee91000. He says Asia’s legacy financial infrastructure needs to keep pace with stablecoins as instant settlement becomes increasingly important.

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🇰🇷 CONNECT: The GENIUS Act is helping legitimize stablecoins as a financial instrument, per @CodexFX's Haonan Li. He points to rapidly growing demand for stablecoin-powered cross-border payments between emerging markets.

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🇰🇷 CONNECT: The next edge for perp exchanges could be built at the infrastructure layer. “The perp exchanges that have been most successful, they've really differentiated on an infrastructure level,” @Optimism COO @kylejenke said at CONNECT: Seoul.

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🇰🇷 INSIGHT: “The liquidity you see today is definitely not the liquidity you will have tomorrow,” said @RockawayX’s @GilgameshODs on managing risk in digital asset treasury strategies at CONNECT: Seoul.

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🇰🇷 JUST IN: South Korea unveils plans to build infrastructure for tokenizing securities, including stocks, bonds and funds.

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🇰🇷 JUST IN: South Korea unveils rules allowing stocks, bonds and funds to move onchain from February 2027, with its securities depository building infrastructure connectivity on Avalanche.

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🇰🇷 NEW: Kakao Pay and KakaoBank partner with Fireblocks to explore stablecoin infrastructure in South Korea.

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🇰🇷 NEW: South Korea’s $200B Hanwha is building a tokenization platform on Avalanche.

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🇰🇷 NEW: South Korea's financial regulator unveils draft rules for tokenized stocks, bonds and funds, including capital requirements for issuers and retail purchase caps, ahead of its February 2027 rollout.

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🇰🇷 NEW: The Bank of Korea launches a 24-hour won settlement pilot for foreign investors, with full operations planned for January 2027.

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🇰🇷 TODAY: Morpho CEO Paul Frambot says institutions need control over risk, rates and compliance before moving onchain, at Korea Blockchain Week 2026. "There's no fundamental blocker... it's just about making it happen."

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🇰🇷 UPDATE: South Korea is moving to put its capital-markets infrastructure on Avalanche, enabling stocks, bonds and funds to be issued, traded and settled onchain.

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🇰🇿 INTERESTING: Kazakhstan wants Bitcoin miners to run on gas that oil fields currently burn off as waste. That wasted gas could produce about 1.2 TWh of power a year.

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🇲🇽 WARNING: Four people were allegedly killed in Mexico over a Bitcoin wallet believed to hold millions of dollars.

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🇳🇱 NEW: The Dutch central bank moved 86 metric tons of gold to London from North America, citing crisis preparedness amid global political unrest.

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🇵🇪 TODAY: Peru's Economy Ministry says its X account was compromised after dozens of posts pushed a fake token airdrop to Peruvians, Bloomberg reports.

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🇵🇭 NEW: The Philippines proposes a 12-month freeze on new payment operator registrations and tighter crypto checks.

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🇵🇭 REGULATION: A Philippine court just froze 25 crypto wallets and 86 bank accounts tied to an unnamed lawmaker in a flood control plunder probe.

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🇵🇱 UPDATE: Poland’s parliament failed to overturn the president’s veto of a crypto bill, leaving the sector’s regulatory future in limbo.

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🇷🇺 BIG: Russia's largest exchange, the Moscow Exchange, will launch perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX indices on September 22, available only to qualified investors.

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🇷🇺 NEW: Russia's Finance Ministry just paid some of its own staff in digital rubles, a month after the CBDC's nationwide rollout kicked off.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s new Bitcoin & crypto trading rules started today. $3,700 yearly retail limit per broker. No exchange license required until July 2027. Paying for goods with BTC stays banned.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 US officials say talks with Putin's envoy Dmitriev on peacefully ending the war in Ukraine were "constructive."

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