The Chinese-led mBridge protocol is making progress, with the second digital yuan payment transaction publicly recorded. India's CBDC program has five million users but no public transaction figures to share. Experimentation with tokenization is expanding across the region.

The programmingability of money versus its uniformity in Thailand. Cambodia Bakong CBDC statistics for the first half of 2024. Kyrgyz digital som legislative framework.

Chinese officials have already warned that transacting in Tether is illegal—and late last year, it urged local authorities to embark to impose tighter restrictions and punish those responsible.

A news outlet's apologized after alleging that Sun was involved in insider trading, fraud and money laundering, with the piece subsequently picked up by a slew of crypto media websites.

Saudi Arabia is among the countries where de-dollarization is one of the objectives set for the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) projects.

The rise of Apple Pay and embedded finance in popular consumer products had long been a looming threat to legacy banks. Now, central banks were feeling the squeeze

The sudden team detention and subsequent token movement provoked rug-pull fears among investors in Filecoin's staking project.

The board consists of three independent members and four company insiders. It's a step towards better governance, with some caveats.