Upbit will launch PYUSD and JPYC tokens in the Korean won, BTC, and USDT markets

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and six Democratic colleagues issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to pushing for the CLARITY Act and stating that this week's setback is not the end of the job.

On the first day of the launch of Arc mainnet, the number of transactions reached 7.76 million, generating approximately $280000 in fees. Uniswap's daily trading volume on Arc exceeded 410 million US dollars. Arc uses USDC as its native Gas token, with a daily transfer volume of nearly $1 billion and a total on chain USDC of $650 million; On that day, more than 700000 new addresses were added, and the total number of addresses exceeded 840000.

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Yu Weiwen, stated that there is considerable uncertainty in the trend of US interest rates, and the public should carefully manage interest rate risk when making financial decisions. The spread between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar is expected to widen, and arbitrage trading activities may lead to a gradual weakening of the Hong Kong dollar. Yu Weiwen expects the real estate market to show a stable trend. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will continue to monitor the market and maintain monetary and financial stability.

BBX News: Yesterday, the global public market presented investors with a highly rational yet contrasting capital game in the management of cryptocurrency balance sheets. Faced with the same core cryptocurrency assets, cash rich giants are devouring them without considering the cost, while valuation stressed treasury companies are carefully calculating cash out repurchases. Whether buying or selling, the ultimate goal of capital is to maximize shareholder equity and corporate leverage: ——Violent fundraising: MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: $MARA) spent $98.64 million to buy 1292 BTC, continuing to move towards a spot monopoly oligopoly. ——Market value defense: ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: $BRR) realized 50 BTC and decisively repurchased stocks at a discount of 22%, increasing net asset value per share. ——Business upgrade: Twenty One Capital ($XXI) proposes a five step plan to seek the transformation of a "Bitcoin operating company"; Circle casts billions of ARC to pave the way for PoS consensus switching in 2027. The market presents a clear dual evolutionary trend of "top mining giants relying on the advantage of fiat currency for absolute spot monopoly" and "small and medium-sized treasury entities using highly liquid encrypted spot for high-order market value discount arbitrage". Source: bbx.com

The Hong Kong SAR government proposed in the 2026 policy address that the Securities and Futures Commission will improve the virtual asset licensing system and the regulatory framework for tokenized investment products, and promote the issuance and trading of gold and other suitable RWAs on licensed platforms. Hong Kong plans to issue digital bonds on a regular basis and explore the use of digital currency for settlement, dividend distribution, and redemption applications. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will test the tokenization of foreign exchange fund bills by the end of the year to utilize foreign exchange fund bills with a total value exceeding HKD 1.3 trillion. In addition, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority plans to implement central bank digital currency (CBDC) settlement and round the clock operation in the Ensemble project (Ensemble TX) by the end of this year, and continue to explore tokenized deposit application scenarios.