MAS Tightens Crypto Oversight: Singapore Banks Face New Reporting Rules

Singapore Tightens Crypto Rules for Banks. Singapore's central bank, known as MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, increased the supervision of banks that deal with crypto. Singapore government has a special department that watches over banks

Now, some banks in Singapore are starting to deal with crypto like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Banks with crypto must now notify MAS. Discuss how those crypto assets should be treated, even before the full rules start.

The complete rulebook aligned with banking standards. They have been delayed until at least January 1, 2027. Banks still must follow temporary rules now.

Crypto prices can crash suddenly. If banks put too much of their money into crypto and it crashes, people could lose their savings. So MAS wants to make sure banks don’t take too much risk.

While MAS intends for banks to limit their access to unauthorized crypto. What banks must now do is submit reports on their crypto holdings to MAS. Talk to governing bodies about how much capital they need to hold against crypto risk.

Build systems that track and monitor crypto exposure limits. Around 2% of the total. So if a bank has $100 in its safety fund, it can only risk $2 of it on crypto. This protects the bank and money if crypto crashes.

Basically, Singapore is not waiting for crypto banking rules to be finalized. It is already telling banks to report crypto holdings, keep exposure low to 2% M. cap., and prepare for AI-related risks.

A careful but crypto-friendly example for other countries. You can play with crypto, but carefully. Don’t gamble too much money on it, tell us what you’re doing, and also get ready for smarter hackers.”

The complete rulebook won’t be ready until January 2027. But banks already have to start following some of these safety steps now, even before the final rules are locked in.

MAS Tightens Crypto Monitoring Despite Singapore Banks Face New Tough Reporting Rules Next Year was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Strategy, the largest Bitcoin accumulation firm, sells roughly $544.5M in stock. Like the selling of stock, the buying of bitcoin is zero. In fact, this kind of behavior seems to be from the last 20 days.

Bitcoin, as BTC, dropped 2.57%, while MSTR stock rose 7.61%. Strategy boosts its cash reserves. Instead of buying bitcoin, they bought some preferred stock.

Strategy, MSTR, sold out millions worth of its stock. Don’t even spend a penny to buy Bitcoin this time, which seems unusual. Since they normally buy BTC with such funds.

Straightforwardly, describing the strategy is big crypto companies are making major moves. Like stock sales, patent deals, and possible partnerships. This simultaneously signals more serious, large-scale involvement in crypto. This was to be noted as a personal opinion that Strategy is going to make a big move before a small break. Or maybe there is a chance that Strategy will stop buying more BTCs.

According to Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Bitcoin accumulation firm Strategy, they have enough cash to cover 2.1 years of dividend payments on their preferred stock.

Out of that money, $25 million was used to buy back shares of STRC, which is a high-yield preferred stock. Saylours bought roughly 288,930 shares. Bitcoin holdings stayed the same as in the still-recent update. Still stuck on 843,775 BTC. There were no more new purchases seen this time.

Also making the update of stocks, both MSTR and STRC rose about 2.5% before the markets opened. As Bitcoin’s price climbed to $65,000 over the weekend.

Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve, Buys Back Some Preferred Stock Neglecting New Bitcoin was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

From the start of the year, Bitcoin and Ethereum prices collapsed. A big shake in the crypto industry, which resulted in prices dropping. But the greed and fear index is red. Showing it at 35, which means the percent chance of fear is more than 50%. But much better than last week, which was around 26. The monthly greed and fear index is 25.

Today, 16 June, the overall crypto market performed better than on previous days. The coins listed below by their market cap performed very well today.

Bitcoin, the number one cryptocurrency by its market cap, has a value of $64,876.08, a weekly surge in the price of around 4.2%. The market cap of bitcoin is $1.3 trillion, increased by 0.05%. The 24-hour trading volume is $27.31 billion, a decline of 8.36%.

Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is trading at the price of $1,922.43, a surge in the price of around 2.41% in the last 24 hours. Similarly, it increased its value weekly by 11.04%. The market cap increased by $232 billion, a 2.43% jump. Whereas the volume in the last 24 hours is $13.19 billion, it rose by 1.04%.

Zcash is also referred to as ZEC. The 11th number is marked by its market cap on CoinMarketCap. ZEC is trading at the price of $576.83, a surge in the last seven days, which is 24.34%. Its market cap is $9.67 billion, a rise of 2.88%. Also, the volume recorded in the last 24 hours is $668.51 million, surging by 11.29%.

Chainlink, as LINK, is the number 14 cryptocurrency in the market, according to CoinMarketCap. Chainlink’s trading price is marked as $8.55. An increase of 12.11% since last week. When the market cap is $6.4 billion, it also increased by 6.09%. The 24-hour trading volume is $291.33 million, which is surging by 11.77%

Ondo is also known by its blockchain, ONDO. The 38th-ranked altcoin. ONDO is trading at $0.3653, a huge surge in prices weekly by 15.73%. Its market cap is $1.77 billion, increased by 15.93%. Although the 24-hour trading volume is $168.59 million, a huge surge in the last 24 hours is around 183.13%.

Market Update as Crypto Fear Index Shows Improvement was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hyperliquid is one of the super-fast crypto trading platforms. A decentralized exchange for trading digital assets. Hyperliquid is an L1 blockchain based especially for decentralized futures and spot trading.

Hyperliquid, as HYPE, is a well-known cryptocurrency. HYPE has performed very well for the last few months. HYPE entered a crucial phase in the last seven days. On June 16, prices dropped after hitting an all-time high price, which is around $76.85.

HYPE Market Update

Some geopolitical factors and overall behavior or sentiments of the market triggered HYPE, by which prices go down in a week around 10.19%. Today on 14 July, HYPE prices started gaining some strength.

Prices ranged between $71.9 and $72.4 in the previous week. Today HYPE’s prices go down, marking it at $62.71. At the time of writing, HYPE is trading around $64.97, a surge in prices that is around 2.71% in the last 24 hours and down weekly by 9.47%.

Monthly trading prices are still green, which is 7.87%. Where the market cap is $16.4 billion, also soaring by 1.91%. On the other hand, 24-hour trading volume is decreased by 12.39%, which is roughly $326.4 million.

HIP-3, Hyperliquid Market

Many people have now started trading on Hyperliquid. Almost 50% of the tokenized stocks are trading over Hyperliquid. Tokenized stock trading is growing very quickly. On the other side, Hyperliquid is also gaining strength. Its market is trading and developing.

HIP-3 is the main reason for Hyperliquid, which helps developers to grow their business in the market. This allows developers from outside to make their own long-term market. This helps others to expand the trade. Not just for crypto but to use it in other manners. A big benefit to everyone is that it is a 24/7 trading service and can be accessed any time.

At the start of the year 2026, Hyperliquid announced that HIP-3 holds 2% of the market. But now they listed around 50% of the market of outside developers, who are trading constantly. TradeXYZ is leading the growth of the market.

The Hyperliquid market is upgrading as the time passes. They are improving their securities, fees, liquidation, and many other things. On 18 May, TradeXYZ launched a SpaceX pre-initial public offering (pre-IPO) perpetual market

This kind of upgrade helped everyone, especially as a big benefit to Hyperliquid. So that anyone can make their own market out there. The Hyperliquid market is growing very fast. In the start of the year, it had around $790 million worth of market. But currently holds around $3 billion.

Tokenized Stocks Are Exploding on Hyperliquid — Here’s Why was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.