Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’ Asia Express. Mirae Asset Global Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, the developer of the Avalanche blockchain, to tokenize fund products and build onchain asset management and settlement systems. Mirae Asset Group is one of South Koreas largest independent asset managers. The total assets under management (AUM) in the groups umbrella are estimated at 1.024 quadrillion Korean won (over $730 billion). Mirae Asset Global Investments, which handles the groups overseas investments, as the name suggests, contributes 430 trillion won (about $306 billion). The global investment arm is also a top 12 exchange-traded fund issuer in the world based on estimated revenue, and 15th by AUM, as of Thursday, according to data from ETFdb. Read more
Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’ Asia Express. Mirae Asset Global Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, the developer of the Avalanche blockchain, to tokenize fund products and build onchain asset management and settlement systems. Mirae Asset Group is one of South Koreas largest independent asset managers. The total assets under management (AUM) in the groups umbrella are estimated at 1.024 quadrillion Korean won (over $730 billion). Mirae Asset Global Investments, which handles the groups overseas investments, as the name suggests, contributes 430 trillion won (about $306 billion). The global investment arm is also a top 12 exchange-traded fund issuer in the world based on estimated revenue, and 15th by AUM, as of Thursday, according to data from ETFdb. Read more
Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’ Asia Express. Mirae Asset Global Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, the developer of the Avalanche blockchain, to tokenize fund products and build onchain asset management and settlement systems. Mirae Asset Group is one of South Koreas largest independent asset managers. The total assets under management (AUM) in the groups umbrella are estimated at 1.024 quadrillion Korean won (over $730 billion). Mirae Asset Global Investments, which handles the groups overseas investments, as the name suggests, contributes 430 trillion won (about $306 billion). The global investment arm is also a top 12 exchange-traded fund issuer in the world based on estimated revenue, and 15th by AUM, as of Thursday, according to data from ETFdb. Read more
Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’ Asia Express. Mirae Asset Global Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, the developer of the Avalanche blockchain, to tokenize fund products and build onchain asset management and settlement systems. Mirae Asset Group is one of South Koreas largest independent asset managers. The total assets under management (AUM) in the groups umbrella are estimated at 1.024 quadrillion Korean won (over $730 billion). Mirae Asset Global Investments, which handles the groups overseas investments, as the name suggests, contributes 430 trillion won (about $306 billion). The global investment arm is also a top 12 exchange-traded fund issuer in the world based on estimated revenue, and 15th by AUM, as of Thursday, according to data from ETFdb. Read more
Avalanche inks a deal to tokenize South Korean financial giant’s ETFs, Hong Kong hits back at yuan stablecoin ‘fake news.’ Asia Express. Mirae Asset Global Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, the developer of the Avalanche blockchain, to tokenize fund products and build onchain asset management and settlement systems. Mirae Asset Group is one of South Koreas largest independent asset managers. The total assets under management (AUM) in the groups umbrella are estimated at 1.024 quadrillion Korean won (over $730 billion). Mirae Asset Global Investments, which handles the groups overseas investments, as the name suggests, contributes 430 trillion won (about $306 billion). The global investment arm is also a top 12 exchange-traded fund issuer in the world based on estimated revenue, and 15th by AUM, as of Thursday, according to data from ETFdb. Read more
BlackRock filed a registered trust company to back its proposed Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, a yield-generating product that would complement its $87 billion spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT. Asset management giant BlackRock filed to register a Delaware trust company for its proposed Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on Thursday, signaling a push to broaden its Bitcoin offerings. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said BlackRock’s proposed product would sell covered call options on Bitcoin futures, collecting premiums to generate yield. The regular distributions would, however, trade away potential upside from investing in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, which mirrors Bitcoin’s (BTC) price movements. Read more
The update promises major changes to improve user experience and introduces a modular design, replacing Aave's monolithic architecture. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave is releasing its V4 update, a major protocol upgrade, sometime in the fourth quarter of 2025, introducing modular lending markets and new risk controls among new features. The update introduces a “hub and spoke” modular design to Aave to allow for crypto borrowing and lending markets with more custom parameters, without trapping liquidity in different siloes, according to an update from Aave. Liquidity hubs act as central pools for modular spokes; each of the spokes represents a different market with one of three risk profiles and features different borrowing and lending rates, replacing Aave’s current uniform rates. The team wrote: Read more
China launched a digital yuan operations center in Shanghai focused on cross-border payments, blockchain services and digital-asset platforms. China’s central bank has opened a new operations center for the digital yuan in Shanghai. The center will oversee platforms for cross-border payments, blockchain services and digital assets as part of the digital yuan’s ongoing development. State-run Xinhua News Agency reported the news on Thursday, citing a statement from the People’s Bank of China. According to Xinhua, the center is designed to promote the digital yuan’s role in global finance. With the launch, officials unveiled a cross-border payments platform, a blockchain service platform and a digital asset platform. Read more