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Finance

Crypto Payments Firm Wirex and Visa Expand Partnership to 40 Countries

The partnership's footprint will now expand to the U.K. and APAC.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Might Test $20K as It Looks for Support

ALSO: The SEC's move on Kraken's staking program last week shouldn't be seen as an indictment of staking as a whole.

Man staring out window at lightning storm (Grant Faint/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Kraken Crypto Staking Settlement Bedevils Markets as Bitcoin Lingers Below $21.9K

ALSO: CoinDesk analyst Glenn Williams considers the significance of "whales" sending bitcoin back to exchanges, while smaller investors remove it.

Kraken's agreement to shutter its liquid staking operation bedeviled crypto markets. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Hovers Near $23K; Why AI Tokens Are on a Months-Long Tear

ALSO: Shaurya Malwa writes that institutional investment has made a compelling argument for AI-related protocols; LDO jumps after a tweet by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

Bitcoin was hovering near $17.3K. (Oliver Furrer/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Flirts With $23.4K as Fed's Powell Repeats Comment About Waning Inflation; Market Weighs DCG-Genesis Deal With Creditors

ALSO: Stakeholders in the venture capital industry explain why embattled crypto trading firm Alameda Research will not be missed.

Ether registró una caída tras los datos de inflación en EE. UU. (Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Crypto Is Flat Before Fed Chair Speech; Japan's SBI Building a Metamask Competitor for Yen-Denominated NFT Trading

Crypto trading is largely denominated in USD, but the U.S. isn't the center of the digital assets world.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Not Ready to Soar as Investors Await Fed Chair Speech, More Earnings

ALSO: As crypto prices rise, venture capital into the blockchain space is likely to rise. But will investment firms learn from their past overindulgences in the sector?

Jerome Powell (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Dips Into Red but Holds Strong Above $23.5K

ALSO: CoinDesk analyst Glenn Williams Jr. highlights the spike in crypto trading activity following the U,S. central bank's interest rate hike.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Is Bitcoin's Ride Past $24.1K a Stopping Point or Sign of Further Gains?

ALSO: Shaurya Malwa writes that Waves’ decision to abandon the stablecoin model underlines a decline in this sector stemming from the terraUSD implosion and other debacles.

Bitcoin traveled past $24.1K at one point following the Fed's interest rate announcement. (Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Lido DAO Governance Token Down, Staked Ether Stable as Withdrawal Proposal Comes Into Focus; Bitcoin Rises as Fed Rate Decision Nears

While the DAO has yet to formally see the Lido proposal to allow withdrawals from stETH, Galaxy Digital has already been critical. The Lido governance token has fallen about 15% from its high last week week.

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