🍳 COOKING BNB — Daily Digest · Aug 18 · 15:01 UTC · Aug 19 00:01 KST
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🔥 THE CENTERPIECE
HashKey taps Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin to settle insurance and trade deals
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₿ CRYPTO

🟠 Citi plans to launch bitcoin custody for institutional clients later this year — CoinDesk +1
🟠 Toyota Finance opens tokenized bonds to retail investors via mobile payment app — Cointelegraph +1
🟠 Arthur Hayes comes out of retirement to lead Flop Labs and plans FLOP token for the agentic economy — Crypto Briefing
🟠 Cypherpunk Technologies launches largest Zcash mining operation with $33M Winklevoss backing — Crypto Briefing

🇰🇷 KOREA KITCHEN

🇰🇷 Ethereum Foundation executes $5.5M Q2 grants — TokenPost
🇰🇷 Business development firm resumes bond issuance with mixed rates — TokenPost
🇰🇷 99 trillion won AI contract reshapes bitcoin miner valuations — TokenPost
🇰🇷 Stablecoin card spending surges 7x to $642M — TokenPost

📈 MACRO

🌐 Klarna stock plunges 20% on trimmed guidance as German retail sales slow — Yahoo Finance +1
🌐 After a long job search, this 45-year-old is ditching corporate for nursing school—she wishes she'd done it earlier — CNBC
🌐 30-year Treasury yield tops 5.33%, new 19-year high on inflation, spending concerns — CNBC

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