Good morning, Asia. This is what makes news in the market:
Welcome to Asian morning briefings, daily summary of top stories throughout the US time, and an overview of market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of the US market, see Coindesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas.
As Asia begins trading days, all major cryptocurrencies are declining due to market uncertainty as a result of Israel’s attacks on Israel.
Early on Friday morning, Israeli forces carried out multiple airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and sent prices for
And then it fell sharply.
Despite this recent volatility, ETH is still up nearly 40% over the past three months, according to CoinmarketCap. Coindesk20 index and Bitcoin
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One theme tracked by market observers is investor desire for risk, and may be considering ETH rallies on behalf of their recent infrastructure upgrades as well as their willingness to invest in Altcoins.
Recent outperformance against Bitcoin remains important as Eth often serves as a key indicator for Charmaine Tam, head of the broader Altcoin Complex and head of OTC.
“As investors become more comfortable beyond BTC, Altcoins offers compelling narratives and liquidity, and benefits,” says Tam. “Ethereum performance often serves as an early indicator of these broader capital shifts.”
The recent surge in ETH dominance is a surge of around 7% to nearly 10%, consistent with a measurable drop in BTC dominance, falling 2-3 percentage points from the recent high, Tam wrote in a note.
That difference suggests that traders have begun to see the stories of past Bitcoin ETFs and currency hedging in the past.
On-chain flow and total value lock (TVL) data support trends, with assets like pendles, bitenser and high lipids showing strong influx, and Ethereum Layer 2 activity continuing to climb.
Important institutional benefits have further supported Ethereum’s recent strengths, particularly since mid-May, by attracting more than $1.25 billion, Tam said.
According to TAM, the basis for sustainable Altcoin assembly will become increasingly strong as long as institutional interests are strong and ETH maintains its position as a liquidity anchor in emerging ecosystems.
Let’s see if there is a foothold in this market movement.
MAS offshore exchange ban took a long time
Last week, Singapore’s Monetary Authority (MAS) coped the final nails for businesses that use city-states as paper bases while operating entirely overseas.
In the June 6th update, MAS confirmed that digital token service providers (DTSPs) that will only serve foreign clients from June 30th must obtain licenses, and other exchanges like Bitget, Bybit and Wazirx have closed Lion City operations.
For those paying attention, this was inevitable. The mass has at least telegraphed this movement. As Coindesk wrote at the time in 2023.
That year, the regulator concluded public consultations stemming from the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) of 2022, clearly stated that companies that provide crypto services to overseas clients are under the regulations, even without Singaporean clients.
If the entity is registered in Singapore, MAS wants to be monitored. This can be attributed to the fact that two previous biggest headaches of regulators, the three arrow capital and the Terraform Lab, have little relations with the country other than address.
Now, the bankrupt companies were technically resident in Singapore, but their physical presence could be ignored.
Terraform Labs was well-run from a local, critically operated coworking space, but the three arrows had quietly moved its operating base to Dubai, even before the epic collapse (Emirates regulators told Coindesk that the fund would not be registered with the territory).
At the time, MAS was owing the reputational damage from these famous disasters, but found it to minimize real-world surveillance of the companies behind them.
There is no official confirmation, but recent updates to the latest moves in FSMA and MAS could potentially be tied to these episodes.
Due to the new requirements, there is little room for regulatory arbitrage. If a company wants to use a respected name in Singapore, it must be fully submitted to regulatory oversight.
This closure marks a key step in a broader global shift towards cryptography monitoring.
The Quran debuts quantum safe wallets as industry orthodontic instruments for quantum threats
The Clan, the team behind the Quantum Secure Layer 1 blockchain, has launched the QSafe Wallet, a crypto wallet built to withstand the looming threat of quantum computing.
Designed with post-Quantum encryption in mind, the wallet aims for future digital asset storage before quantum threats undermine today’s cryptographic standards.
QSAFE is built using two algorithms selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for resilience after selection, SLHDSA and ML-KEM.
It supports Bitcoin, Solana, EVM compatible chains and native chains of Quran. Unlike most wallets using ECDSA and SHA-256, QSafe encrypts backups and by default signs transactions using quantum resistance tools.
The threat is no longer purely hypothetical. Cryptographic researchers estimate that around 1,500 logical qubits are needed to break the ECDSA. Although current quantum systems are well below that threshold, development is accelerating.
“Qsafe is built to not only respond to quantum threats, but also tolerate it,” says Dhiman. “We don’t hire security guards after the theft occurs. We don’t hire them to prevent that. QSAFE is designed to protect assets before quantum threats reach the key.”
Market movements:
- BTC: Bitcoin has fallen 4.7% and is trading at $103.3k due to geopolitical tensions caused by the recent Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facility in Tehran.
- ETH: ETH was under pressure within the descending channel after being repeatedly rejected at $2,770, and sold quickly to $2,694 despite being in charge of the Spot ETF, which recorded an 18-day inflow, including $240 million on June 11.
- gold: Gold surged over 3% to $3,426.95, reaching a weekly high as tensions in the Middle East and soft US data raised expectations for a Fed rate cut.
- Nikkei 225: The Asia-Pacific market fell on Friday after Israel launched a military strike with Iran’s nuclear program. Japan’s Japan 225 fell by 1.28%, while Topix lost 1.22%.
- S&P 500: The S&P 500 closed at 6,045.26 on Thursday, up 0.38% at 6,045.26.
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