WebX 2026 Tokyo concluded its fourth edition with 13,641 participants from more than 90 countries and over 70 side events. Discussions across three stages covered yen stablecoins, megabank tokenization and rising institutional confidence. WebX returns on 25 to 26 August 2027 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Deal Day, the Bitcoin for Corporations Symposium and Enterprise focus experience give companies, investors, and operators a dedicated business environment at Asia's largest Bitcoin conference — August 27–28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX will shut down on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading. Users have been asked to close open positions and withdraw their assets ahead of the closure as the platform begins an orderly wind down.
Tokyo Stock Exchange–listed Green Monster will work with Capital Layer to support the development of regional institutional stablecoin settlement infrastructure as the two companies build a regional institutional settlement network — starting with the Japan–Taiwan corridor — alongside co-created digital-asset education for financial institutions.
Attackers backdoored the official Injective npm SDK on July 8, 2026, planting code that stole crypto wallet seed phrases and private keys across 18 packages. The poisoned version was downloaded 310 times before a clean release shipped. Here is how the attack worked.
Trezor and Tropic Square have disclosed a TROPIC01 chip vulnerability in the Safe 7 hardware wallet, uncovered during an independent Ledger Donjon audit using a laser fault injection attack. The flaw affects one of three security layers, and Trezor says user funds remain safe.
Brussels-based Keyrock has been named the successful bidder for the assets of bankrupt crypto trading firm BlockFills, agreeing to pay $3.25 million. The deal awaits approval at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing scheduled for June 16, 2026, months after BlockFills filed for Chapter 11.
Coinbase launched direct INR rails in India on June 1, 2026, letting customers deposit and withdraw rupees via IMPS without P2P workarounds. The exchange added spot trading, perpetual futures, local rupee order books, and Coinbase Advanced tools, backed by FIU-IND registration.
Vecontra is a unified crypto research platform built by two engineering students to spare India's retail traders the cost and chaos of juggling five tools at once. Co-founder Prince Kumar on the pivot from a college price tracker, the guardrails on its Vicco AI, and the year ahead.
Trezor has launched native stablecoin yield inside Trezor Suite through a Morpho integration, letting users earn on USDC and USDT on Ethereum. Every deposit and withdrawal is signed on-device, with no lockups and instant exits.
Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026 returned to Bangkok on May 20 and 21, organized by ShardLab. Stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, and AI-agent commerce led the agenda as industry leaders mapped Asia's shift from speculation to settlement and institutional adoption.
The Trezor Safe 7 just won a 2026 Red Dot Award for Product Design. Head of Hardware Adam Budínský talks to CIM about the device's open, auditable, secure element, the push to end blind signing on Ethereum, the touchscreen threat model, and why self-custody adoption still lags in India.
KuCoin is framing its Australian push as an 'evolution,' pairing its November 2025 AUSTRAC registration with the launch of KuCard, a Mastercard-linked debit card built with Immersve that lets users spend USDC at any Mastercard merchant, including via Apple Pay and Google Pay.
OxPay Financial's subsidiary Oxygen7 received a full Financial Services Licence from Bhutan's Gelephu Financial Services Office on April 29, 2026, clearing the way for a regulated crypto payments and stablecoin remittance platform targeting GMC's tourism and B2B sectors.
At Money20/20 Asia 2026 in Bangkok, the lines between traditional finance and DeFi continued to blur. From J.P. Morgan’s blockchain scale to EMURGO’s self custody push, the event revealed a clear shift toward interoperable, user controlled financial systems.
KelpDAO's 1-of-1 bridge verifier was exploited for $292M on April 18. Aave lost $9B in 48 hours. $5B in USDT/USDC locked. $13B DeFi TVL gone. Justin Sun-linked wallet exited $274M in 21 minutes.
Drift Protocol was drained for $285M by North Korean hackers on April 1. Circle didn't freeze $230M in stolen USDC. Now Tether is backing a $148M recovery and Drift relaunches on USDT.
Larry Fink says tokenization could do for finance what the internet did to mail — and BlackRock isn't waiting around. With $150B already in digital markets, the world's largest asset manager is building the future it's describing.
In an exclusive interview from Consensus Hong Kong, BridgePort CEO Nirup Ramalingam breaks down the critical shift toward off-exchange settlement, mitigating counterparty risks, and building the essential institutional crypto infrastructure needed to mature the market.
The collaboration highlights a deepening integration between one of the largest public XRP treasury companies and a core onchain infrastructure provider, paving the way for deeper convergence between traditional finance and XRPL-native financial systems.
This partnership marks the first collaboration between SBI Ripple Asia and an XRPL-native protocol, signaling a new chapter for institutional-grade finance on the XRP Ledger. Through this alignment, both parties aim to accelerate the adoption of transparent, compliant, and yield-generating products built on the XRPL.
The release arrives at a time when global derivatives volumes continue to concentrate around a handful of exchanges and long-standing debates around market structure, security practices, and transparency persist.
Bitget’s total reserves rose to $7.83 billion, while Bitcoin holdings increased by 6%, from 28.6K BTC to 30.3K BTC, bucking the industry-wide decline in centralized exchange reserves.
The raise, structured through equity and token warrants, marks Lighter’s second major funding milestone after a $21 million round in 2024, bringing its total funding to nearly $90 million.
