North Korea is now the third-largest government Bitcoin holder, thanks to a $1.5 billion Bybit hack by its Lazarus Group. With 13,562 BTC, it surpasses Bhutan and El Salvador. Meanwhile, the U.S. and China still dominate bitcoin holdings also without any purchases made

China's government follows up on the Decision of the Communistic Party to "Build and operate a national data infrastructure to promote data sharing"

Shanghai Judge Sun Jie drew a line between personal crypto holdings and banned activities as the underground market thrives.

The East African country has some of the cheapest energy on earth and great geopolitical relations with China.

China releases a hard wallet for the digital yuan, as Amazon trials a tokenization concept that sees small businesses paid faster.

Global financial leaders converge to explore the future of finance, with ISO 20022, digital assets, China's digital yuan and cross-border payment innovations taking center stage.

More than 180 million digital yuan wallets have now been created — but over in the UK, campaigners fear "Britcoin" could plunge privacy and freedom of expression into peril.

The Chinese-led mBridge protocol is making progress, with the second digital yuan payment transaction publicly recorded. India's CBDC program has five million users but no public transaction figures to share. Experimentation with tokenization is expanding across the region.