ICYMI: Here's a quick news recap from today's Asia & EMEA sessions @TheBlockCo 👇
⚠️ Google warned that quantum computing may break Bitcoin earlier than thought and said it is preparing for a 2029 post-quantum transition.
💸 David Bailey's Nakamoto offloaded 284 BTC for $20 million — a 40% discount compared to its average acquisition cost.
🔮 Binance is set to launch a prediction market feature within its wallet app via Predict. Fun.
🧑⚖️ KuCoin's operator was ordered to block U.S. traders and pay a $500,000 CFTC penalty.
🏛️ The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to open up 401(k) retirement plans to alternative assets, including crypto.
🇰🇷 KB Kookmin Card, one of South Korea's largest credit card companies, announced that it will build a hybrid stablecoin payment model with Avalanche.
💰 Crypto asset manager, market maker, and trading infrastructure provider Keyrock said it has raised "significant" new funding at a $1.1 billion valuation.
🪙 Standard Chartered said stablecoin usage is rising faster than expected as new use cases emerge.
🇦🇪 Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority published its Exchange Services Rulebook, establishing mandatory governance, disclosure, and risk management standards for licensed VASPs offering crypto derivatives.
🤔 The team behind Bitcoin scaling solution Core is rolling out its first "franchise protocol," this time designed to add capabilities to the privacy-enabling blockchain Zcash.
📉 Bitcoin wobbled on Tuesday, briefly slipping below $66,000 as geopolitical risk and macro uncertainty continued to dominate price action heading into the end of the first quarter.
🧐 EU-regulated crypto-asset service provider Tesseract is launching a new investment vault platform designed for institutional and professional investors.
🇪🇺 Interactive Brokers launched crypto trading for eligible individual investors in the EEA, including BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP.
🇧🇹 The Royal Government of Bhutan transferred approximately 374.9 BTC ($25.2 million) to an unlabeled address on Tuesday, continuing an accelerating outflow streak.
🤖 Chainalysis introduced "blockchain intelligence agents" trained on millions of investigations.
