Crypto & Fintech
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Mastercard Partners With Yellow Card to Build African Stablecoin Payment Rails
Sending $200 to Sub-Saharan Africa costs an average of 8.78% of the transfer value, according to World Bank data from Q1 2025. The global average is 6.49%. When banks handle it, the average jumps to 14.55%, the highest of any provider category worldwide. Those numbers explain, better than any press release can, why stablecoins are
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Digital Assets Weekly: Wall Street Goes Onchain
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 Sunday. First time since January. The move triggered over $116 million in liquidations, nearly all of them shorts. April closed up 13% for BTC, its best month in a year. Ethereum held near $2,381. Solana at $84.79. XRP rangebound at $1.39. Prices aside, this was a week of structural decisions. Congress cleared
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ATTOM’s New AI Property Valuation Model Works Where Traditional AVMs Break Down
The US housing market has a valuation problem that most people outside mortgage and insurance underwriting never think about. Transaction volume collapsed from its 2021 peak and has stayed low. Elevated mortgage rates froze move-up buyers in place. The result is a market with far fewer recent comparable sales than traditional automated valuation models were
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South Korea’s Oldest Bank Just Joined MoonPay’s Won Stablecoin Consortium
South Korea’s won is one of the most traded currencies in Asia. It is almost entirely absent from global digital finance. That gap is what MoonPay Korea is positioning to close. On April 30, 2026, MoonPay Korea announced it will support the global distribution, cross-border settlement, wallet access, and currency conversion infrastructure for Korea’s emerging
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Why Taiwan’s Case for Bitcoin Reserves Is Unlike Any Other Country’s
Taiwan holds $602 billion in foreign exchange reserves. More than 80% of it is in US dollars. For most countries that concentration is a policy footnote. For Taiwan it is something else. On April 29, 2026, Legislator Dr. Ko Ju-Chun stood up in the Legislative Yuan and formally delivered a Bitcoin Policy Institute report to
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Thunes and WireBarley Just Made Real-Time Payments Into South Korea a Reality
South Korea sent $7.45 billion in outbound remittances in 2024. The digital segment of that market is growing at 16.7% annually through 2030. Most of it still moves too slowly. Thunes and WireBarley announced a strategic collaboration on April 27, 2026, connecting WireBarley’s 1.1 million users across seven sending countries and 520 payout corridors to
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The Infrastructure That Lets Institutional Gold Holdings Earn a Return
Gold has always been reliable. It has never been productive. Aurelion (NASDAQ: AURE) announced on April 24, 2026 that it has committed 10,000 units of XAU₮, approximately $48 million worth of tokenized gold, to XAUE, a new protocol that allows tokenized gold to generate yield while maintaining full exposure to the underlying asset. Following the
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Japan’s Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Learning to Make Their BTC Work
ANAP Holdings started as a fashion retailer. It is now one of the top three Bitcoin-holding listed companies in Japan. That transition is not as unusual as it sounds in the current Japanese market, but it does illustrate something important about where corporate treasury strategy is heading in Asia’s most carefully regulated digital asset environment.
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What SOLOWIN’s Preliminary Results Actually Tell Investors
Revenue up tenfold. Still losing money. Both things are true. Somewhere around $2.8 million a year ago. Now $27 to $29 million. That is not a rounding error or a favorable accounting treatment. SOLOWIN Holdings (NASDAQ: AXG) genuinely grew its top line tenfold in twelve months, driven by digital asset tokenization, stablecoin infrastructure, and AI-powered
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Why Tom Lee Is Buying Ethereum Faster Than Anyone Else Right Now
One company now owns more than 4% of all Ethereum in existence. Here’s what that actually means. The number is worth sitting with. 4.976 million ETH. Out of 120.7 million total ETH in existence. That is 4.12% of the entire supply of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, held by a single publicly traded company trading on
