Japanese Bitcoin Treasury Firms Keep Beating BTC. Tax Policy Makes Outperforming U.S. Peers the Easy Part
While U.S.-listed bitcoin treasury firms struggle to outperform ETFs, Japan’s harsh crypto tax code sends investors into DAT stocks, making outperformance easy. Nov 21, 2025, 4:55 p.m. Earlier this year, at Hong Kong’s Bitcoin Asia, there was a growing sense of frustration with Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies and their lagging performance against the asset they
Asia Morning Briefing: Market Turns Defensive as Bitcoin Loses Its Bid
With CryptoQuant flagging an exhausted demand wave and Polymarket traders clustering around an 85,000 retest, the market is trading without the catalysts that drove last year’s gains. Nov 20, 2025, 2:15 a.m. Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours
Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Rebounds as Polymarket Traders Bet U.S. Shutdown Will End Within Days
Prediction markets flipped overnight after Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan funding deal, sending crypto and risk assets higher on expectations that Washington will reopen before Veterans Day. Nov 10, 2025, 2:09 a.m. Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours
Analysis: Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Made Prediction Markets Look Dumb. Bill Ackman Made Them Look Real
A Coinbase CEO prank resolved one market with a single sentence. Ackman’s warning about “rigged odds” in a $22 million Polymarket election shows the opposite: it now takes institutional-scale money to move prices even 10%. Updated Oct 31, 2025, 3:31 p.m. Published Oct 31, 2025, 5:44 a.m. Brian Armstrong’s last-minute crypto shout-out turned a $4,000 prediction market
Asia Morning Briefing: What’s the Real Use for a Yen Stablecoin? An On-Chain Carry Trade
Unlike most Asian currencies, the yen moves freely across borders, making it the perfect vehicle for an on-chain carry trade that blends Japan’s easy money with DeFi’s appetite for yield. Oct 30, 2025, 1:52 a.m. Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories
U.S. Crypto Coalition Warns Bank Data Fees Could Cut Off Stablecoins and Wallets
Fintech and crypto groups are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop banks charging for consumer data access, saying the move would undermine open banking and disconnect crypto wallets and stablecoins from the U.S. financial system. Oct 21, 2025, 9:00 a.m. A coalition of U.S. crypto, fintech and retail groups is uniting to defend open
Asia Morning Briefing: Structural Demand Anchors Bitcoin After Record $20B Liquidation
A record deleveraging erased speculative positions but not conviction, as both Glassnode and CryptoQuant highlight steady whale accumulation, rising USDT supply, and persistent ETF inflows. Oct 15, 2025, 1:21 a.m. Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an
Biggest Crypto Liquidation Ever Sees $16B Longs Decimated Amid Market Chaos
Biggest Crypto Liquidation Ever Sees $16B Longs Decimated Amid Market Chaos Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print. Updated Oct 11, 2025, 4:19 a.m. Published Oct 11, 2025, 3:46 a.m. Crypto liquidations continued their rout early
Asia Morning Briefing: Polymarket’s POLY Could Bring Oracle’s Home
Whale-led manipulation and disputed rulings have shaken trust in UMA’s oracle. POLY could mark Polymarket’s move to reclaim control of how truth is decided on-chain. Updated Oct 10, 2025, 1:37 a.m. Published Oct 10, 2025, 1:19 a.m. Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top
Asia Morning Briefing: Why Russia-Linked Stablecoin Issuer A7A5 Could Exhibit at Token2049 Despite Singapore Sanctions
Singapore made a bold move in its usual foreign policy of neutrality by sanctioning Promsvyazbank, a bank associated with the ruble stablecoin issuer A7A5, due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But A7A5 was able to legally make an appearance at Token2049 because the conference is organized by a Hong Kong entity. Oct 6, 2025, 1:45 a.m.