While you’re yapping about MegaETH or Somnia (and rightfully so), don’t sleep on Asia quietly testing the next layer of real adoption on payments, compliance, infrastructure, and machine-to-human crypto flow. 1. APAC Markets – Mixed but resilient Hong Kong’s Hang Seng: +0.92% China’s CSI 300: +0.6% Japan’s Nikkei: -2.1% Despite the global volatility, crypto adoption remains high across APAC: South Korea: 100M+ active users, $2T annual crypto trading India: Over 90M users and growing fast China: Still leads in blockchain patents, even under tight regulations All signs point to early rotation altcoins forming, especially as Bitcoin dominance wobbles. (1/2)

Crypto Regulatory Headlines China: Denied new bans, still strict but no extra crackdown Hong Kong: Plans stablecoin licenses by 2026 Taiwan: Hosting Taipei Blockchain Week (Sep 4-6) Japan: Metaplanet stacks $53M BTC, basically the MicroStrategy of Asia Ecosystem Plays You Might’ve Missed @burnt_xion: Launching new real-world use cases in Korea (called “Houses”), B2B2C ramps in China, even settling crypto with Indian farmers APAC memecoins: AURA, NUB, TROLL, INJ (@injective) all gained traction with regional whales El Salvador (global but relevant): Now holding 6,258 BTC ($718M) Entire economic layers are being tested here?!!! Will see in another next 2 weeks when kids are back in school, and the rich adults are back to work That said, there was a few big institutional Hacks CrediX (DeFi): Lost $4.5M, platform taken offline Solana memecoin platforms: Revenues sliding, potential ecosystem fatigue Quantum risk chatter still lingers, though it’s more global than APAC-specific The volume here doesn’t always show up in your feed. But it’s real, rotation and altcoins is forminngg... remeber pick your lane and stick with it, but it investing into altcoins, NFTs or even just yapping.. you need to do it NOW