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VietQR is accepted by over 2 million merchants across 55 banks and payment institutions, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (sbv.gov.vn, accessed 06 October 2026). The catch for a visitor is that most of those codes want a Vietnamese bank account. Here is what actually works for a foreigner in 2
Crypto News
The number moved twice and the cause is now named: a vulnerability in a third-party security product, not a private key leak. Withdrawals are reopening, starting with bitcoin.
Crypto News
A privacy stablecoin payments protocol lost about US$1.83 million overnight. What was taken, how, and what it means for money you leave in any payment app.
Crypto News
The GENIUS Act takes effect no later than 18 January 2027, and Treasury has now defined who counts as issuing or selling a stablecoin in the US. The dates, the exemptions, and what it means for USDT.
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3.51 million tokenized stock holders, up 164% in a month, as Coinbase and Robinhood push stock tokens mainstream. Trading volume halved because fewer people are flipping and more are keeping.
Crypto News
India's securities regulator and central bank just put real corporate bonds on a ledger and settled them in digital rupees. It is the most important tokenization story of the week, and it uses almost none of the technology crypto people assume tokenization requires.
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A $144 billion implied valuation sat on top of a $48,000 liquidity pool. You did not need to know anything about Hunter Biden to know how that ends.
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Berkshire’s big bet on Alphabet GOOGL sits in the AI race. Greg Abel called Google a significant player in AI. Prices, caveats, and USDT path via GOOGLon.
Crypto News
Sber intends to take Bitcoin, Ether and USDT as loan collateral. Russia's crypto market law takes effect on 1 September. And paying for anything with crypto inside Russia is still banned.
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Nigeria's official remittance numbers jumped 45% in a single quarter. Nigerians abroad did not suddenly become 45% more generous. The money changed channel, which is exactly what the reforms were designed to do.
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Indonesia has more than four million people working abroad and they send home about $4.5 billion every quarter. It is one of the world's largest remittance flows and one of the least discussed.
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Nepal takes in about Rs7 billion a day from its people abroad. Remittances are now worth roughly a third of the entire economy, which is a remarkable achievement and a serious exposure at the same time.