GM, In my previous article, I mentioned Central Bank Governor Yang Chin-long’s question 1 about stablecoins: “If future stablecoin issuers and related businesses are brought under regulation—required to follow AML, CFT, KYC, cybersecurity, and consumer-protection rules—will they still be able to offer the fast, freely circulating, and
GM, Last week, Central Bank Governor Yang Chin-long delivered a keynote speech titled “Digital Innovation in Payments and the Role of the Central Bank” at the Financial Information Service Co. annual conference. His talk focused on three major topics: stablecoins, tokenization, and central bank digital currency (CBDC). This video is
GM, Ethereum has upgraded again. Around 6 a.m. Taiwan time on December 4 (today), Ethereum completed its second system upgrade of 2025, codenamed Fusaka (a blend of Fulu and Osaka). This upgrade includes 12 updates in total, but the two most important changes are: 1. Improving wallet user experience
GM, It feels great to be back at work. I spent the past two weeks traveling in Europe, and since I was traveling with my wife, I tried my best not to look at work during the trip. The only exception was keeping an eye on today’s topic. During
GM, This article concerns the public interest and is fully open — feel free to share it. As mentioned in recent Blocktrend articles, last week I discovered that two of my assets were stuck in DeFi services 1 2 3 : 1. Euler Finance (K3 USDT Earn Vault – Avalanche) 2. Silo Finance
GM, Starting next week, Blocktrend will take its year-end publishing break. Four articles will be paused, and regular publication will resume on December 2. This is a pre-planned family trip — not a getaway to recover from last week’s loss of funds 😅. But hey, it works out perfectly. Now, onto
GM, I originally planned to skip publishing this week—honestly, my mood was terrible. But after thinking it through, since I’ve already paid what feels like a million-dollar tuition fee, I should at least share my firsthand experience of falling into a DeFi pit. First, a quick reminder: if
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GM, It’s currently earnings season for U.S. stocks, and last week, the American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase held its earnings call. As the meeting was coming to an end, CEO Brian Armstrong admitted he was a bit distracted, then proceeded to read out a series of keywords: “Bitcoin,” “Ethereum,
GM, According to Tuesday’s poll results, this article will once again feature human narration. I personally prefer reading my own work aloud, though it does take extra time to record — unlike AI-generated audio, which is much easier 😂. Still, I’ll keep exploring AI tools to see if there’s
GM, Longtime readers of Blocktrend know that writing this article carries some legal risk for me. The main subject, OwlTing, once filed both civil and criminal defamation lawsuits against me and three other netizens in 2020 — all because I criticized the government’s so-called “mosquito chain” project on Blocktrend, for
GM, Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of 38-year-old fraud ring leader Chen Zhi (English name Vincent) and seized 127,000 bitcoins from his wallet — worth around $15 billion USD — marking the largest cryptocurrency confiscation in U.S. history. The Prince Group, chaired by Chen,
GM, Exactly one year ago, Stripe announced its $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a startup providing stablecoin APIs — marking the largest acquisition in crypto history. At the end of my article back then, I wrote¹: The current model of cross-border remittance is built on the assumption that money itself
GM, Last weekend was Taiwan’s National Day holiday, but the cryptocurrency market went through a bloodbath. The turmoil began when Donald Trump suddenly announced a 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting November 1. The news triggered a global selloff—both in traditional markets and crypto. The Nasdaq Index plunged
GM, Bitcoin has once again hit a new all-time high — but do you remember exactly what the current ATH (All-Time High) is? I honestly can’t keep track anymore 😂 Ever since Bitcoin broke past $100,000, the price has started to feel “blurry.” I used to care about whether it
GM, If you’ve ever bought cryptocurrency, you’ve definitely run into the issue of how to move money in and out. “On-ramping” means converting New Taiwan Dollars (NTD) into crypto, while “off-ramping” is the reverse. This has always been the biggest barrier to entering the blockchain world. In Taiwan,
GM, Recently, all kinds of Digital Asset Treasury companies have been emerging in the market. Even TNL Mediagene, the parent group of well-known media platform The News Lens, has set up a digital asset committee to prepare for purchases of BTC, ETH, and SOL. But this party already seems to
GM, After the passage of the GENIUS 1 Act in the United States, stablecoins have become the hottest new startup trend. Some players are issuing stablecoins and pocketing 2 the yield themselves. Others are building dedicated blockchains to meet the speed requirements of everyday payments 3. But for people in
GM, AI can now do more and more, but there’s still one key capability it hasn’t unlocked: paying money. Today’s AI systems are mostly built on the assumption that “public = free 1.” They scrape whatever online content 2 they can find and skip over anything behind a
GM, Issuing stablecoins was once the most profitable business in the world. All an issuer had to do was deposit U.S. dollars in a bank, mint stablecoins for users, and then sit back collecting U.S. Treasury yields—true “sleep income.” With this model, Tether and Circle have effortlessly