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Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets:Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas.Gold’s breakout above $5,000 is beginning to look less like a spike and more like a regime shift, as bitcoin drifts sideways around $87,000 in the early hours of Hong Kong trading, in a low-conviction market that continues to struggle with internal supply dynamics.Onchain indicators suggest the divergence reflects market structure rather than sentiment alone.In its latest report, CryptoQuant…

Hong Kong’s monetary authority is doubling its renminbi lending facility to RMB200 billion ($27.5 billion) after overwhelming bank demand exhausted the initial allocation in just three months.The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced January 26 that the expanded RMB Business Facility takes effect February 2, backed by the People’s Bank of China through their currency swap arrangement. All 40 participating banks have either hit or are approaching their quota limits since the facility launched in October 2025.What’s notable here: the money isn’t staying in Hong Kong. According to the HKMA, participating banks have channeled offshore yuan to corporate clients across ASEAN…

The Ethereum treasury company ETHZilla has purchased two jet engines after selling off some of its crypto stash and increasing its focus on asset tokenization.ETHZilla said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it purchased two aircraft engines through a newly formed subsidiary, ETHZilla Aerospace LLC, for $12.2 million in cash.The engines, which are used in large commercial planes, came with existing lease agreements with a major airline, enabling the firm to begin earning yields from them.The purchase comes after ETHZilla chairman and CEO McAndrew Rudisill said in December that it aims to “build an operating business to bring real-world…

Aptos (APT) is trading at $1.55 as of January 25, 2026, down 0.58% in the past 24 hours. While the immediate price action appears bearish, recent analyst forecasts and oversold technical conditions suggest a potential recovery ahead for the Layer-1 blockchain token. APT Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $1.90-$2.10• Medium-term forecast (1 month): $2.10-$2.43 range• Bullish breakout level: $1.58• Critical support: $1.52 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aptos Recent analyst coverage for Aptos has been cautiously optimistic despite the current price weakness. Tony Kim provided multiple forecasts throughout January, initially targeting $2.00-$2.10 for the short term…

As Congress debates crypto market structure legislation, one issue has emerged as especially contentious: whether stablecoins should be allowed to pay yield.On one side, you have banks fighting to protect their traditional hold over consumer deposits that underpin much of the U.S. economy’s credit system. On the other side, crypto industry players are seeking to pass on yield, or “rewards,” to stablecoin holders.On its face, this looks like a narrow question about one niche of the crypto economy. In reality, it goes to the heart of the U.S. financial system. The fight over yield-bearing stablecoins isn’t really about stablecoins. It…

The biggest obstacle to Bitcoin (BTC) being used as a payment method is tax policy, not scaling technology that reduces settlement times and transaction costs, according to Pierre Rochard, a board member for Bitcoin treasury company Strive. “Here’s a metaphor: the best athlete can win against the worst athlete 100% of the time, if the best athlete plays. It drops to 0% if he doesn’t play and lets the weak athlete win,” Rochard said about BTC’s current lack of use as a method of payment. Source: Pierre RochardIn December 2025, the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit policy advocacy organization, sounded the…

EigenCloud has released its EigenAI platform on mainnet, claiming to solve a fundamental problem plaguing autonomous AI systems: you can’t verify what you can’t reproduce.The technical achievement here is significant. EigenAI delivers bit-exact deterministic inference on production GPUs—meaning identical inputs produce identical outputs across 10,000 test runs—with just 1.8% additional latency. For anyone building AI agents that handle real money, this matters.Why LLM Randomness Breaks Financial ApplicationsRun the same prompt through ChatGPT twice. Different answers. That’s not a bug—it’s how floating-point math works on GPUs. Kernel scheduling, variable batching, and non-associative accumulation all introduce tiny variations that compound into different…

Some of the U.S. Senate Democrats in the negotiation over the crypto market structure bill filed requested amendments on Friday, seeking a number of their top policy requests in the draft legislation pushed by Republicans in the Senate Agriculture Committee.The draft they’re trying to change was unveiled as a partisan effort without Democratic sign-off on Wednesday, so now the lawmakers are trying to insert such things as a ban of the president (and other government officials) profiting off of the crypto sector and a demand that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission fill out its slate of commissioners before digital assets…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is looking into relaunching markets for tokenized stocks for the first time in five years.In a statement to Cointelegraph on Friday, a spokesperson for Binance said “exploring the potential to offer tokenized equities is a natural next step” for bridging traditional finance and crypto. Should the exchange reintroduce digital versions of stocks for companies, it would represent a significant change in Binance’s offerings since it announced “ceasing support for stock tokens” in July 2021.”Binance is committed to bridging traditional finance and crypto, expanding user choices while maintaining the highest regulatory standards,” said the spokesperson. “Since last year,…

UNI Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $5.85• Medium-term forecast (1 month): $5.40-$6.29 range• Bullish breakout level: $6.17 (Upper Bollinger Band)• Critical support: $4.64 (Lower Bollinger Band) What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Uniswap Recent analyst sentiment on Uniswap remains cautiously optimistic despite the current price decline. Lawrence Jengar noted earlier this week that “Uniswap (UNI) trades at $5.32 with analysts eyeing $6.29 resistance breakout. Technical indicators show oversold conditions with potential 18% upside if support holds,” targeting $6.29. Luisa Crawford provided a comprehensive Uniswap forecast, stating: “Short-term target (1 week): $5.85; Medium-term forecast (1 month): $5.40-$6.29 range;…