Hong Kong Desk Tracks rsETH Bridge Restart as Asia DeFi Treasuries Watch the Lockbox
HONG KONG — Twenty-six days after a North Korean attack ripped a quarter-billion-dollar hole in a liquid restaking bridge, the plumbing is back online. Aave moved an opening tranche of 25,000 rsETH into the LayerZero OFT adapter…
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Hong Kong Desk: Polygon's POL Sags Near 10 Cents Even as Asia Quietly Becomes Its Most Important Customer
HONG KONG — The disconnect between price action and corporate adoption rarely shows up as cleanly as it has this week in POL, the native token of the Polygon network. As Asian trading desks rolled over their overnight books on 13…
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Hong Kong Watches CLARITY Act as Section 604 Shields Code From Capital-Flight Trigger
HONG KONG — A clause buried inside Washington's draft digital-asset framework has become an unlikely focal point for Asia-Pacific licensing regimes, with regional regulators quietly modelling what happens to engineering talent…
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Seoul's Won-Pegged Stablecoin Rides Aptos Rails as BDACS Pact Targets Payment Corridors
HONG KONG — A memorandum signed this week between Seoul-based digital asset custodian BDACS and the Aptos Foundation pushes the won-denominated stablecoin KRW1 onto a Layer 1 network engineered for high-throughput settlement, a…
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