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
GM, Taiwan’s banking sector has moved onto the blockchain. Last week, I invited Cathay Financial Holding for a recording session¹, where two guests, Cynthia and Jenny, pointed out that the draft Virtual Asset Service Act announced by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission in March was the key turning point.
GM, Last week, payment giant Stripe and crypto venture firm Paradigm officially announced that they would jointly launch Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain dedicated to payments. This marks the fourth major case of a large corporation building its own blockchain, following stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle 1, as well as
GM, Last month, in my article “To Chairman Jui-Bin Tung: EasyCard Is Not a Stablecoin, Here’s the Key Difference”, I discussed the fundamental distinctions between EasyCard and stablecoins. I made the piece public, hoping it could serve as a foundation for Taiwan’s conversation around stablecoins. Since its publication,
GM, For the past five years, every Blocktrend article has come with an audio recording. That was something I did after finishing the writing and editing — spending another half hour late at night to record the narration. Over time, it has added up to more than 400 recordings. Starting this
GM, This Friday, there’s a Blocktrend-exclusive perk! In the last podcast episode, I chatted with Michael, the CEO of CoolBitX, about their new product CoolWallet Go. After the episode aired, some members asked if there could be a group deal. Here are the details: This Friday from 10:00
GM, The world’s most widely used crypto wallet, MetaMask, has finally issued its own token! But instead of launching a governance token, it has introduced a U.S. dollar stablecoin called MetaMask USD (ticker: mUSD). With USDT and USDC already dominating the market, why does MetaMask feel the need
GM, Even people who’ve never bought cryptocurrency have probably heard of “mining.” Everyone says mining consumes huge amounts of electricity—some even steal power for it. But what exactly does mining do? The recent 51% attack on Monero offers the perfect case study. Monero is the world’s largest
GM, The podcast will be on pause tomorrow. Let’s get into today’s topic. The ETHA (iShares Ethereum Trust ETF), launched by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is now the world’s largest Ethereum ETF by market capitalization. Over the past 75 trading days, ETHA has seen
GM, ETH has risen 55% over the past 30 days, now just a step away from its all-time high of $4,800; BTC is also hovering around the $120,000 mark. At times like this, unless you’re already all in, it’s hard not to feel like, “I didn’
GM, Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order easing investment restrictions on the 401(k) retirement savings plan. This change allows employees working in the United States to invest their retirement funds in assets that were previously considered high-risk—such as real estate, private equity, and
GM, This article concerns the public interest. It is fully open and free to share. This week, Mega Financial Holding Chairman Ruey-Bin Tung made headlines after commenting on stablecoins in an interview. He said: “Taiwan already had a TWD stablecoin back in 2002 — it’s the EasyCard that everyone carries.
GM, Last week, online payments giant PayPal announced two new products: PayPal World and Pay with Crypto. As the name suggests, Pay with Crypto allows merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments. But PayPal World is even more practical — and more ambitious. It enables PayPal users to travel abroad without needing to
GM, Today’s piece is a bit of a change of pace—we’re diving into a tool that many of us use in everyday life. Recently, hardware wallet giant Ledger introduced a new backup solution for seed phrases: the Ledger Recovery Key digital backup card. Taiwan-based cold wallet company