digital assets

HKMA publishes findings of e-HKD pilot

Experts share insights around the value potential of a digital currency, following the HKMA’s publication of an initial report on the pilot.
October 31, 2023

The peculiar realm of the metaverse

The metaverse is challenging user perception of materiality, digitalising elements of the physical realm and unlocking new economic values. Companies and policymakers are each fighting to establish ground rules across it, but so far its exact definition remains obscure.
October 03, 2022

Building Bybit: exclusive interview with Ben Zhou

Bybit co-founder and CEO, Ben Zhou, shares his thoughts with FinanceAsia on the mass adoption of digital assets, crypto’s changing regulatory landscape, and market volatility.
August 30, 2022

Where the optimism still lingers for cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies have experienced a collapse in 2022, but regulation maturity and greater technological familiarity is supporting an upbeat outlook for decentralised technologies – despite the market price for digital tokens.
August 16, 2022

The dilemma facing cryptocurrency

A White House executive order to lay out a national policy for digital assets should help boost credibility for cryptocurrencies, but concerns that decentralised finance technology can help evade sanctions still lingers for policymakers and investors.
March 29, 2022

Bybit: using crypto to foster financial inclusion

The Singapore-based decentralised crypto exchange has launched a sustainability initiative to foster financial inclusion in India. And, on the back of government acknowledgement of crypto as a digital asset, the Bybit team is exploring further opportunities in the market.
March 01, 2022

What next for crypto?

Greater familiarity, institutional support, and budding public interest for cryptocurrencies suggest that 2022 could be a banner year for digital assets. Will encouraging momentum continue, or will new virtual money eventually be faced with old money problems?
February 15, 2022