China’s central bank boss really, really doesn’t like stablecoins and crypto, Japanese yen comes to DeFi: Asia Express.

The majority of wealthy investors surveyed in Hong Kong plan to buy crypto this year, Japan to allow banks to hold Bitcoin. Asia Express.

SBI Ripple uses XRP Ledger for Japan tourism payments. Stablecoin payments go live in Singapore. Asia Express

Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’
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XRP has the highest returns of any asset class in Thailand so far this year, Shanghai court sells seized Filecoin, and more: Asia Express.

Thailand’s SEC probes a major mystery crypto hack hidden for years. Chinese property developer turns back to blockchain. Asia Express.