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Vince Dioquino

Vince Dioquino

Vince Dioquino is a journalist based in Asia. He began writing about crypto in 2017, with a focus on covering developments in crypto policy, privacy, and security. A self-taught creative with a background in philosophy, he previously worked as editor at Crypto Briefing. He has no significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Vince Dioquino

  • Bitcoin and Japanese Yen. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Japan Rates Hit Three-Decade High, But No ‘Meaningful Disruption’ to Crypto Market

    Crypto markets held steady on Tuesday even as Japan lifted interest rates to a three-decade high amid rising domestic inflation. The Bank of Japan’s policy board raised its benchmark interest rate to around 1% in a 7-1 vote, with the new guideline effective June 17. Policymakers flagged a risk of inflation rising above a 2% target as higher oil prices feed through to consumer goods, with further hikes expected. A relief rally lifted crypto markets after President Trump announced a deal with Ira...

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  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Image: Lea-Kim/Decrypt

    Canadian PM Urges AI Diversification After US Anthropic Block, Decentralized AI Tokens Rally

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Sunday that U.S. restrictions on Anthropic's most advanced AI models expose the risk of leaning on a handful of American providers, after a government order pulled two frontier systems offline for users worldwide. "The situation we're in collectively right now with Mythos and Fable is something that can happen with overreliance on certain models," Carney said, speaking in Ireland ahead of the G7 summit in France, the Associated Press reported. US Govern...

  • Gamestop logo. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    GameStop Renews Bitcoin Deal That Did Little for Its Record Quarter

    Video game retailer GameStop has kept nearly all of its Bitcoin tied up in options contracts that trade away potential price gains for upfront cash, renewing the arrangement with crypto exchange Coinbase after an earlier batch expired in late May. GameStop laid out the arrangement in a quarterly filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, covering the three months through May 2 this year. It’s worth noting those coins no longer count as a direct holding and now sit a...

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    4 min read
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  • The Bank Policy Institute. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Banks Say Stablecoin Rules Should Cover Secondary Markets

    Banking trade groups are pressing U.S. regulators to clarify who oversees stablecoin transactions after issuance, opening a new front in a policy fight after crypto firms warned earlier this week that broad anti-money laundering rules could push regulated dollar tokens out of the decentralized finance sector. In a pair of joint comment letters made public Wednesday, the Bank Policy Institute and The Clearing House said current requirements fail to impose sufficient obligations on DeFi firms, cer...

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  • Stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Paradigm, Hyperliquid Policy Center Push Back on GENIUS Act Stablecoin AML Rule

    Crypto investment firm Paradigm and the Hyperliquid Policy Center warned U.S. regulators that proposed stablecoin anti-money laundering rules could push regulated dollar tokens away from permissionless DeFi if issuers are made responsible for secondary market activity. In a letter sent Tuesday to FinCEN and OFAC, the two industry groups challenged a proposed rule implementing the GENIUS Act’s anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers. Today we fil...

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    3 min read
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  • US Capitol building. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Congress to Discuss Crypto Tax Rules: What to Watch

    The House tax writing committee will take up digital asset taxation, moving a set of crypto tax proposals into public debate as Congress continues its broader push to write federal policy for the industry. Scheduled for 2pm ET on Tuesday, the hearing will be broadcast live on the House Ways and Means Committee’s YouTube channel, according to the committee page published Monday. Witnesses include tax and policy officials from Fidelity, Coinbase, Coin Center, and NYU Law’s Tax Law Center, covering...

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    3 min read
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  • Hyperliquid. Image: Decrypt/Hyperliquid

    Hyperliquid Hit by UK FCA Warning as Crypto Perps Face Scrutiny

    Hyperliquid is drawing renewed attention as one of crypto’s largest perpetual futures venues, following a May warning in which the UK’s financial regulator listed Hyperliquid and Hyper Foundation as unauthorized amid broader concerns over crypto perps. The warning came from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, which said in a notice dated May 21 that Hyperliquid, Hyper Foundation, the protocol’s app, and its social channels may be offering or promoting financial services in the UK without permi...

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    3 min read
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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: Fundstrat/Decrypt

    Tom Lee’s BitMine Plans $300M Preferred Stock Sale for ETH Treasury Push

    Ethereum treasury firm BitMine is seeking to raise up to $300 million through the sale of 3 million preferred shares to support ETH purchases, staking, validator infrastructure, and related investments. If BitMine’s board approves the payments, the Series A preferred shares would have a $100 stated amount and pay a 9.50% annual cash dividend in weekly installments, according to a preliminary prospectus filed with the SEC on Wednesday. BitMine has applied to list the shares on the NYSE under the...

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    3 min read
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  • Bitcoin is the biggest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Mt. Gox Moves $739M in Bitcoin as Repayment Deadline Looms

    Mt. Gox, the defunct crypto exchange whose 2014 collapse left creditors waiting more than a decade for repayment, moved more than $739 million in Bitcoin on Tuesday as the asset fell below $70,000. The defunct exchange moved 10,422.65 BTC from cold storage, with most of the funds sent to a new wallet and 116.30 BTC routed to a known Mt. Gox hot wallet, according to Arkham data showing the transfers early Tuesday. It’s worth noting the transactions do not indicate that Mt. Gox sold Bitcoin or be...

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    3 min read
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  • Ethereum. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Whitehat Helps Recover $2M in ETH Stuck Since 2016 ICO

    An Ethereum developer helped recover more than 1,000 ETH, worth about $2 million, from a failed 2016 crypto project, returning funds that had been stuck in an old smart contract for nine years. In a tweet Sunday, the developer, who goes by 0xFlorent_, said HongCoin’s 2016 ICO contract was supposed to refund investors after the project missed its funding goal, but a bug broke the refund function and left the ETH stuck. First white-hat exploit on Ethereum: I unlocked 1,003.62 Ξ ($2,000,000) trapp...

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    3 min read
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  • Image: Hyperliquid/Decrypt.

    NYSE Parent Isn't 'Freaked Out' by Hyperliquid—It's Learning From the Crypto Perps Giant

    Hyperliquid has become a wake-up call for traditional markets, prompting discussions with the crypto venue, studying its 24/7 model, and asking regulators whether U.S. exchanges can offer similar perpetual futures under clear rules. That’s according to Jeffrey Sprecher, founder, chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, who spoke at a fireside chat during Bernstein’s 42nd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday. “We’re not freaked out about it,” Sprecher said, referring to Hyperl...

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    4 min read
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  • Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Engineer Charged Over $2.75 Million in Alleged Polymarket Insider Trading Bets

    Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, alleging confidential data was used to trade on Polymarket prediction markets. Michele Spagnuolo, a staff software engineer at Google who used the alias “AlphaRaccoon,” allegedly bet about $2.75 million across Google-related Polymarket contracts from October 15 to December 4 last year, the U.S. Department of Justice disclosed Wednesday. Spanuolo allegedly won about $1.2 million from the predi...

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    3 min read
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  • President Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Trump Backs CFTC Over Prediction Markets, Calls State Officials ‘Scum’

    U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Tuesday for federal regulators to keep control over prediction markets, calling it a "critically important" issue as states move to treat the fast-growing sector as gambling under their own laws. “We cannot have SCUM like Chris Christie, Letitia James, Tim Walz, and JB Pritzker setting the rules,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the CFTC’s “exclusive authority” should be maintained as other countries pursue what he called a new form of financial marke...

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    3 min read
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  • Artificial intelligence. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    China Imposes Travel Limits on AI Workers at Private Firms: Report

    China is reportedly requiring some senior AI workers at private firms including Alibaba and DeepSeek to obtain approval before traveling abroad, tightening state control over a key part of the country’s technology sector. The restrictions apply to startup founders, researchers, and executives considered important to China’s AI ambitions, with authorities adding people to the list based on their strategic value rather than their seniority or employer, according to a Tuesday Bloomberg report citin...

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    Polymarket Hit By ‘Internal Top-Up’ Wallet Exploit, $700K Drained

    On-chain investigator ZachXBT flagged a suspected drain tied to Polymarket on Friday, saying over $520,000 had been taken from addresses linked to the prediction market’s Polygon infrastructure. Polymarket developers later acknowledged the incident and said it involved an internal rewards wallet and did not affect user funds or market outcomes. “Findings point to a private key compromise of a wallet used for internal top-up operations, not contracts or core infrastructure,” the Polymarket Develo...

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    3 min read
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  • Layoffs. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Syndicate Labs Shuts Down as Crypto Cuts and Closures Mount

    Syndicate Labs, a crypto infrastructure project that helped developers build on-chain communities, investment clubs, and rollup-based apps, said it is winding down after five years as the market shifted away from its core business. The rollup infrastructure business no longer fit a market increasingly split between broad platform providers and bespoke chain development, according to a tweet from the company on Wednesday. Syndicate has always focused on giving developers the customization and co...

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    3 min read
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  • The White House. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Trump Orders Fed to Review Crypto Firms’ Access to Master Accounts

    U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing regulators to study whether crypto and fintech firms should get direct access to Federal Reserve payment accounts, placing renewed pressure on the central bank’s control over who can connect to the U.S. payment system. The order asks federal financial regulators to review rules, guidance, supervisory practices, and application processes that may limit fintech firms’ ability to partner with regulated institutions or seek bank...

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    5 min read
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  • Tokyo, Japan. Image: Louie Martinez/Unsplash/Decrypt

    Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes On-Chain Finance Plan to Protect Yen

    Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is pushing stablecoins, tokenized deposits and blockchain settlement as financial infrastructure, warning that Japan risks falling behind foreign payment systems. The proposal asks the Financial Services Agency to draw up a five-year roadmap, position finance as Japan’s 18th growth investment field, and clarify how stablecoins could be used for payroll, tax payments, corporate funding and cross-border transfers. “The accumulation of such efforts will help...

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    3 min read
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  • Iran and crypto. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Iran Pushes $10B Bitcoin Insurance Plan for Strait of Hormuz: Report

    The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly promoted Hormuz Safe, a Bitcoin-settled maritime insurance platform for cargo crossing the Strait of Hormuz, under a broader model Iran’s Economy Ministry has explored for the strategic oil transit route. Fars, a state-affiliated Iranian news agency, reported Saturday that Iran’s Economy Ministry had been exploring the model since late April, with the plan allowing marine insurance policies and financial responsibility certificates that could...

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    3 min read
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  • British pound sterling banknotes. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Tether Billionaire Enters UK's Richest People List Amid Farage Gift Inquiry

    Christopher Harborne, a major investor in stablecoin issuer Tether and financial backer of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, was named one of the UK's richest people as Farage faces a parliamentary standards inquiry over a reported $6.7 million (£5 million) gift from the crypto billionaire. The Sunday Times released its annual Rich List on Friday, ranking Harborne sixth in the UK with an estimated fortune of about $24.4 billion (£18.2 billion). Most of Harborne’s wealth reportedly comes from a 12%...

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