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Internet service providers (ISPs) in the Philippines began blocking major crypto trading platforms as regulators moved to enforce local licensing rules on crypto service providers. Users reported that as of Tuesday, access to global cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini was unavailable in the Philippines. Cointelegraph independently confirmed that both platforms were inaccessible across multiple local ISPs. A report by the Manila Bulletin said the ISP blocks followed an order from the National Telecommunications Commission, which directed providers to restrict access to 50 online trading platforms flagged by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank, as operating without authorization.…

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A powerful consortium comprising Japan’s major securities firms, led by SBI Holdings, and trust banks, will fundamentally reshape equity trading. Beginning in 2026, Japanese retail and institutional investors can trade tokenized versions of public company shares 24/7, with minimum purchase sizes as low as 1 Japanese yen (JPY). The rollout marks one of the most significant regulated applications of blockchain technology in traditional finance to date. Japan Builds the World’s Largest Regulated On-Chain Equity Market The initiative involves transforming traditional listed equities into Security Tokens (STs) and enabling their trading on an industry-wide infrastructure. The consortium is tokenizing existing corporate…

Avian Labs, the company behind crypto payments service Sling Money, received approval to operate as a crypto services provider from the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority, expanding its reach in Europe after securing a license from the Dutch regulator in April. The approval places the person-to-person payments app among a growing cohort of crypto payments firms gaining regulatory backing in major jurisdictions as stablecoin-based transfers become more popular as an alternative to traditional cross-border payments. The expansion comes amid heightened scrutiny of crypto services that increasingly resemble mainstream financial infrastructure. The app, which allows users to transact with Paxos’ dollar stablecoin,…

RWAs have been one of DeFi’s fastest-growing segments this year, with their total value growing threefold since January, according to fresh data shared today by market analyst Sentora. Currently, total RWA TVL stands at $17.1 billion, up from $7.8 billion noted at the beginning of January this year, as per data from DeFiLlama. RWAs (real-world assets) are tangible, physical assets with economic value (such as real estate properties, commodities, currencies, equities, and others), which are tokenized with the use of blockchain technology. The tokenization involves creating a digital representation of such tangible assets on blockchain to reflect the value and…

A wave of selling rippled through U.S. pre-market trading today as cryptocurrency-linked stocks took a hit. Summary Major U.S. cryptocurrency-related stocks fell in pre-market trading, with MicroStrategy, Coinbase, and Robinhood each dropping as investor sentiment weakens. Smaller crypto-focused firms, including SharpLink Gaming and BitMine Immersion Technologies, also declined sharply, mirroring losses across digital assets. The broader crypto market remains under pressure, with Bitcoin sliding below $104,000 and major tokens like ETH, BNB, and SOL posting steep weekly losses. The U.S. pre-market session started with notable declines among key cryptocurrency-related stocks. Strategy Inc. (ticker MSTR), the largest Bitcoin treasury company, fell…

India’s CCI clears Coinbase’s minority stake in CoinDCX, cementing the US exchange’s return to India and strengthening the local platform’s position in a top crypto adoption market. Summary India’s Competition Commission approves Coinbase’s minority acquisition in CoinDCX, tightening their partnership and formalizing the US exchange’s return to India.​ CoinDCX, hit by a recruiter-led malware breach earlier in the year, is described by Coinbase as financially sound and positioned to scale after the deal.​ India ranks first globally in crypto adoption for a third year, and analysts say the transaction may open the door for more foreign exchange investment into the…

Plume and OpenTrade have announced a partnership with the sole aim of supercharging yields with WisdomTree’s tokenized funds. According to reports, WisdomTree now has up to 14 tokenized funds on Plume that can be held natively in wallets. Meanwhile, Galaxy has promised to allocate $10 million into the WisdomTree Government Money Market Digital Fund. Plume, a permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance, and OpenTrade have unveiled plans to launch and integrate new yield-bearing vaults via Nest, Plume’s flagship staking protocol, according to documents reviewed by Cryptopolitan. The endeavor will be powered by OpenTrade’s real-world asset (RWA) stablecoin yield…

THORChain has launched a public beta of swap.thorchain.org, a native swap interface positioned as the protocol’s primary front-end for cross-chain cryptocurrency trading. THORChain is a decentralized liquidity protocol for native asset swaps. The interface allows users to exchange digital assets directly between blockchains without wrapped tokens, bridges, or centralized intermediaries. The platform supports swaps of native assets such as BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, TRX, DOGE, BCH, LTC, AVAX, and ATOM using self-custody wallets. Users are not required to connect a wallet to the website to initiate a swap, reflecting THORChain’s focus on minimizing dependencies at the interface level. All swaps…

Mining difficulty for Bitcoin has risen to 148.2 trillion in the latest 2025 difficulty reset, the highest level since miners’ and adversarial network forces collided in earnest. That is a significant jump in general, as the protocol is setting up for one more leg higher into early 2026. What is also increasing, and steadily rising through 2025, is the difficulty of inserting a new block into the Bitcoin ledger. At the beginning of the year, it was substantially below 110 trillion and rose in tandem with the increasing demand for mining hash power. In competitive situations, some miners increased production to…