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Educational coverage · MAS-aware · No financial advice
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Long-form pieces written for readers in Singapore. Start with a hub if you want a lane; otherwise work down the list.
How Singapore’s single-currency stablecoin regime was built from the 2022 consultation to the August 2023 response, and what the 1 September 2026 Payment Services Act amendments paper — a consultation, not final law — would add.
Editorial Desk · 12 September 2026
Why USDT and USDC are not e-money and not PayNow, how MAS’s single-currency stablecoin framework differs from foreign tokens treated as DPTs, and what “settlement” means when the rails disagree.
Editorial Desk · 20 August 2026
How compliance, engineering and operations jobs actually appear in a licensed digital-asset firm here — hiring driven by notices and audits, not by a boom narrative — and why this is a labour-market briefing rather than a recruitment ad.
Editorial Desk · 11 August 2026
An educational briefing on how a Singapore family office might think about operational due diligence, custody and policy risk if it looks at digital assets — not a product pitch, not a tax scheme, and not a recommendation to hold any token.
Editorial Desk · 28 July 2026
Why a licensed Singapore digital payment token platform wants your identity documents, your source of funds and the story of a withdrawal — FATF’s travel rule, MAS Notice PSN02, and how that differs from a Telegram bot.
Editorial Desk · 9 July 2026
How seed phrases, SIM swaps, approval drainers and fake support desks actually empty wallets and platform accounts — a household-level briefing for Singapore readers, not a shopping list of gadgets.
Editorial Desk · 17 June 2026
Bid-ask, book depth and slippage, explained for Singapore readers, and why a screenshot of a last price is a poor substitute for a market.
Editorial Desk · 2 June 2026
What tokenised funds and depositories are, how that differs from an unregulated token, and what MAS and SGX have said in public — an update on the old site’s SGX-era digital-asset items.
Editorial Desk · 19 May 2026
A plain-English map of the frauds that actually reach people here — pig-butchering, fake MAS officers, romance-investment hybrids, cloned exchange apps and recovery-room follow-ups — and the official channels that exist to report them.
Editorial Desk · 6 May 2026
An honest account of what the city actually is in this industry — a serious payments rail, a strict marketing perimeter, a talent market, and a supervisor that declined to be a flag of convenience — and why “crypto-friendly” is the wrong word.
Editorial Desk · 30 April 2026
A balanced briefing on portability, custody, yield, regulation and jewellery versus a bearer digital token — written as a reply to the old “Bitcoin is no-match for gold” line, without declaring an investment winner.
Editorial Desk · 21 April 2026
An educational briefing for readers who meet “DeFi” after a decade of FAST and PayNow — automated market makers, lending pools, smart-contract risk, and why none of this is a deposit, e-money, or a product MAS insures.
Editorial Desk · 7 April 2026
Counterparty risk against operational risk, inheritance against a helpdesk, a MAS-licensed book-entry against a seed phrase you can lose — an educational fork for Singapore readers, without recommending either side.
Editorial Desk · 28 March 2026
What a “corridor” between Zurich and Singapore actually is — complementary time zones, two wealth centres, two listing cultures — and what it is not, including a legal passport, a mutual recognition of licences, or a reason to treat either city as a quality stamp.
Editorial Desk · 16 March 2026
An educational briefing on bitcoin’s supply, volatility, tax characterisation and access routes, written for people who live under MAS rules rather than Twitter slogans.
Editorial Desk · 3 March 2026
Custodial and non-custodial wallets, hardware devices, seed phrases, and what a licensed platform account actually is — a longer answer than the old site’s wallet-launch items.
Editorial Desk · 27 February 2026
A plain-English map of how the Monetary Authority of Singapore treats digital payment tokens under the Payment Services Act, and where the Securities and Futures Act and Financial Advisers Act take over instead.
Editorial Desk · 18 February 2026
How to read a white paper, a token-unlock schedule and a “MAS licensed” sentence without treating any of them as a quality stamp — and why an offshore entity on a Singapore landing page is a fact, not a footnote.
Editorial Desk · 11 February 2026
What retail customers actually meet on a MAS-licensed digital payment token platform — risk-awareness tests, a ban on trading incentives, no credit-card purchases, no leverage, asset segregation, and a complaints process — and how that differs from an offshore app.
Editorial Desk · 22 January 2026
A longer answer to the old site’s “How Does a Crypto Exchange Platform Earn Money?” — trading fees, hidden spreads, listing, staking-as-a-service, order-flow analogues, and why a MAS-licensed app and an offshore clone do not share a business model.
Editorial Desk · 8 January 2026
What a customer actually is in an insolvency, how MAS safeguarding rules for licensed digital payment token platforms differ from an offshore book, and what the FTX-era failures taught without the mythology.
Editorial Desk · 18 December 2025
How a 24-hour digital-asset market looks from SGT — US-session overlap, weekend gaps, liquidity pockets — and why a chart is a record, not a forecast.
Editorial Desk · 9 December 2025
An educational map of transaction hashes, addresses and token contracts — why a transfer of a lookalike coin is not “your bitcoin”, and how phishing explorers harvest panic after you tap send.
Editorial Desk · 20 November 2025
A retail briefing on the Payment Services Act 2019 — what counts as a payment service, how digital payment token services sit inside the same statute, and why a MAS licence is permission to operate rather than a quality stamp.
Editorial Desk · 4 November 2025
Broadcast, mempool, fees and confirmations — an educational walk through what happens after you tap send, and why a mistyped address does not come back.
Editorial Desk · 14 October 2025
What a blockchain actually is when you strip out the startup slang — a shared ledger, a way of agreeing on the next page, and a design choice that does not create a company, a licence or a magic legal structure in Singapore.
Editorial Desk · 16 September 2025
What an NFT actually is, why owning the token is not the same as owning the copyright, how consumer-protection and gambling-like mechanics show up, and the MAS view that most collectibles are not digital payment tokens — unless they are.
Editorial Desk · 26 August 2025
From 30 June 2025, digital token service providers that serve only customers outside Singapore need a Financial Services and Markets Act licence. MAS has said it will generally not issue one, and those firms were told to cease.
Editorial Desk · 8 July 2025