Asia focused follower of all things fintech / financial industry. Payments, crypto, banking. Author. Entrepreneur.
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Zennon Kapron's articles predominantly focus on finance, particularly in the context of technology and business. The topics he covers include digital payments, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), financial technology (fintech), and Asia’s financial landscape.
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The SEC innovation exemption gives US stocks two onshore markets: a Nasdaq–DTCC rail with full shareholder rights, and crypto-native rails wrapping equities without issuer consent.
By: Zennon Kapron
The SEC is about to legalize knock-off versions of US stocks that look and trade like the real thing but aren't. A token that tracks Apple's price but isn't actually Apple stock. Apple didn't issue it, didn't approve it, and it may carry no shareholder rights at all. A third party can create it without permission. This is insanity of the highest order.
The OCC’s February 2026 stablecoin rule extends the GENIUS Act yield ban to affiliates and third parties. It would gut the Coinbase-Circle revenue model.
HYPE hit a record above $62 in May 2026. Hyperliquid's Assistance Fund recycles 99% of trading fees into buybacks, the mechanical force driving the rally.
Circle raised $222M for Arc, its own layer-one blockchain. An issuer owning the rail its USDC settles on is the conflict the GENIUS Act never addressed.
Hyperliquid's synthetic SpaceX perpetual implies a $1.78T valuation with no company consent, and US securities regulators have no framework to reach it.
Tether's new USAT is a ring fence: a GENIUS-compliant US subsidiary built so the $183 billion offshore USDT can stay outside US regulation indefinitely.
Western Union's new USDPT stablecoin settles for cents, undercutting the exchange-rate spread that is the remittance industry's real and largest margin.
In February the FCA selected Revolut for the stablecoins cohort of its regulatory sandbox, one of four firms picked from twenty applicants.
Euro stablecoins hit €450M in January 2026 while the ECB’s digital euro will not issue before 2029. The bank consortium Qivalis launches in H2 2026, three years ahead of Frankfurt.
