Singapore's Home of Crypto News
Educational coverage · MAS-aware · No financial advice
The useful version
Blockchains, exchanges, wallets, DeFi and explorers — written for people who already use PayNow and would like less jargon.
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If you only remember one habit from this site, make it this: ask what the thing is before you ask what it is worth. The original Crypto News Singapore ran short items on wallets and “how an exchange earns money”. Those are still the right questions. They deserve longer answers.
Blockchain without the jargon is the on-ramp. How crypto exchanges earn money is the piece the old URL promised. DeFi for people who use PayNow is for readers who have been told a liquidity pool is “just like a deposit”.
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
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
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
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
