Good morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to the Asia Morning Briefing, a daily overview of top stories in US hours and an overview of market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of US markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Diary Americas. Bitcoin was trading near $89,000 as Hong Kong started another […]
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Walk into a gas station, grocery store or convenience store today and you might see a little orange kiosk glowing in the corner. What started as a curiosity has quietly become one of the most familiar personal touchpoints in the digital economy: the Crypto ATM. With close to 40,000 crypto ATMs operating worldwide, this technology
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YO Labs, the development team behind YO Protocol, has raised $10 million in a Series A round to expand its crypto yield optimization platform. Venture capital firm Foundation Capital led the round along with Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures and Launchpad Capital. The San Francisco-based company plans to use the funding to bring its dividend optimization
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Barclays expects a more tepid year for crypto in 2026, with trading volumes down and investor enthusiasm waning. In a comprehensive year-end report published Friday, the bank flagged a difficult backdrop for digital asset exchanges like Coinbase ( COIN ), citing unclear catalysts for renewed activity and a slow start to token adoption efforts. Retail-facing
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Bitcoin BTC$89,026.47 fell below $90,000 on Sunday in quiet trading as investors showed limited risk appetite ahead of a busy week of economic data and central bank events. The major cryptocurrency was trading around $89,600 as of early afternoon UTC, down about 0.9% in 24 hours, marginally higher on the week and still down about
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In just over a month between October and November 2025, the price of Bitcoin fell by more than 25%. In the very recent past, a large drop in such a short period of time would have sent investors and institutions – large and small – running for the hills. But while Bitcoin’s recent decline sent
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Spanish police on Thursday arrested five people and charged four others in Denmark for the kidnapping and murder of a man who was targeted for his cryptocurrency. The police operation dismantled what authorities described as a criminal group operating across borders to steal cryptocurrency. The investigation began in April when a woman arrived at a
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The news that MSCI – one of the world’s “Big Three” index providers – is looking to exclude digital asset treasuries (DATs) from its indices has absolutely scandalized the crypto community. JP Morgan mentioning this in their research note on strategy only added fuel to the fire, with the term “Operation Chokepoint” making a comeback
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Stablecoin issuer Tether’s dreams of a full takeover of Italian football club Juventus appear to have been dashed. Majority shareholder Exor’s board has unanimously rejected Tether’s binding, all-cash bid to buy the firm’s 65.4% stake in Juventus, stating in a Saturday press release that it “does not intend to sell any of its shares in
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Bitcoin BTC$90,209.55 has so far jumped above $90,000, up 15% from its Nov. 21 low of around $80,000, with price-finding support across three key cost bases: the 2024 annual volume-weighted cost base, the True Market Mean and the average US spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) cost base. These metrics help identify where investors are most likely
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