Welcome to the Asia Pacific Morning Brief—your essential digest of overnight crypto developments shaping regional markets and global sentiment. Grab a green tea and watch this space. Chinese institutions rapidly adopt MicroStrategy-style digital asset treasuries despite regulatory complexities. Gate Exchange plans a compliant Japanese market entry by year-end, targeting high-penetration… Listen ⇢

On-chain data shows Bitcoin is fast approaching the cost basis of the short-term holders, a retest of which could potentially change the asset’s course. Bitcoin Is Nearing The Short-Term Holder Realized Price As pointed out by CryptoQuant author Axel Adler Jr in a new post on X, Bitcoin could be closing… Listen ⇢

CoinShares released a report on weekly digital asset investment, analyzing the intense outflows across the crypto ETF market. In total, crypto investment products saw $1.43 billion in outflows in the last week. Diminished hopes of lowered interest rates powered a lot of this pessimism, but there’s been something of a… Listen ⇢

Ethereum blasted past its all-time high mark set all the way back in November 2021 after climbing to nearly $4,950 on Sunday. The leading altcoin has since experienced a minor pullback. But traders may need to brace for turbulence as Binance’s Estimated Leverage Ratio (ELR) on ETH has surged to… Listen ⇢

According to new research, crypto adoption in the US seems to be growing among older generations. Rates of crypto education and ownership in the over-40 demographic are rising steadily. Retirement savings and hedging against inflation are this cohort’s biggest concerns, while platform complexity is their biggest barrier to entry. Crypto… Listen ⇢

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the Department of Commerce will begin issuing GDP and other economic statistics on blockchain during a White House cabinet meeting on Aug. 26. Positioning the technology as a government-wide data distribution tool, Lutnick told President Donald Trump: “The Department of Commerce is going to start… Listen ⇢

While the broader crypto market rallied in August, XLM often moved in the opposite direction. Over the past month, the XLM price has dropped 11%, and in the last 24 hours alone, it slipped another 4.2%, more than the market’s overall 2% decline. These repeated dips have left traders wondering… Listen ⇢

User “romanticpaul” made aggressive Polymarket bets on Taylor Swift’s engagement less than 24 hours before the announcement went public. He moved a $385,000 market by around 12% more or less by himself. Crypto sleuths have noticed that Paul Sidoti, Taylor Swift’s guitarist for the last 18 years, could fit the… Listen ⇢

Dogecoin started a fresh decline below the $0.220 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now consolidating and might dip further below $0.2050. DOGE price started a fresh decline below the $0.220 level. The price is trading below the $0.2150 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a… Listen ⇢