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Japanese lender CRYL launched Bitcoin-backed loans of up to $6.2 million, joining a small but growing crypto-backed financing market in Japan.

US prosecutors charged a federal prisoner with moving $290,000 in forfeited crypto from a restrained Kraken account through exchanges and mixers.

An IMF paper says dollar stablecoins can improve FX access but may amplify currency runs by giving markets a widely watched signal of dollar scarcity.

Bonzo Lend lost about $9 million after an attacker manipulated the price of SAUCE through a flaw in Supra’s oracle verifier on Hedera.

Cambridge estimates Ethereum uses 7.87 GWh a year and ranks second-lowest in market-value-adjusted energy intensity among PoS networks studied.

Pakistan’s crypto regulator urged a nuanced Shariah review of digital assets after a scholar backed a ruling against purchases made with crypto.

Lawson plans a yen stablecoin payment trial at a Tokyo store, while Netstars has opened a multi-stablecoin service to Japanese merchants.

A UK task force says tokenized markets could add up to $44 billion to annual output by 2035, with a digital gilt targeted for early 2027.

South Korea will pilot tokenized government bonds linked to the Bank of Korea’s institutional CBDC in 2027 and study blockchain interoperability.

Superteam UK lead Stephen “Cap” Newnham is running in the Clacton by-election with proposals covering pension ownership, digital skills and onchain political transparency.