Blockchain / Crypto

Cryptocurrencies account for 6 percent of the mean asset allocation among affluent and high net worth investors globally in 2026, down one percentage point from 2025, according to the HSBC Affluent Investor Snapshot 2026.

Singaporean-Founded Paymonade has been granted a MiCA license by Liechtenstein's Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 states of the European Economic Area under a single passportable license.

Crypto.com announced Thursday a strategic $400 million investment from Citadel Securities valuing the company at $20 billion.

DigiFT, a Singapore and Hong Kong-based regulated digital asset exchange for institutional-grade real-world assets (RWAs), and SBI Global Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SBI GAM), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc., have on Wednesday announced the launch of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Strategy Token (JX token).

Bitdeer Technologies Group, a Singapore-headquartered technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure listed on Nasdaq, has broken ground on anadvanced electronics manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, investing $36 million in the plant, equipment, and construction.

Nium, a cross-border payments infrastructure company co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, has acquired Cypher, a crypto-native non-custodial wallet and issuing company backed by Y Combinator and Coinbase Ventures.

Malaysia's Zetrix AI Berhad group will establish as the underlying protocol for the Philippines' public blockchain infrastructure, marking the second country after Malaysia to adopt Zetrix as a sovereign-grade blockchain platform.

TP, a global digital business services company, and Singapore-based regulated digital payments provider dtcpay will jointly deliver 24/7 customer engagement operations, supporting dtcpay's customers and merchants in English and Mandarin across digital and voice channels.

BTSE Group, a provider of blockchain asset trading and technology solutions, announced Friday the official launch of BTSE Indonesia, a regulated Indonesian digital and crypto assets exchange established through a joint venture between BTSE Group and PT Aset Kripto Internasional.

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