Global crypto policy, market moves and institutional adoption developments highlighted across Asia and EMEA sessions

A recap of today's Asia and EMEA sessions at TheBlockCo highlighted Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan saying the recent U.S. military strike on Iran pushed crypto and onchain markets into a primary role for global price discovery, while Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed House Bill 1042 to let certain state retirement programs gain crypto exposure. Ark Invest added more Coinbase and Robinhood shares across its ETFs, South Korean regulators agreed to cap major shareholder stakes in local cryptocurrency exchanges at 20%, and a Bitcoin Policy Institute study found frontier AI models from six major developers consistently preferred bitcoin as a longterm store of value and stablecoins for everyday payments. Kraken's banking unit secured a Federal Reserve master account with access to Fedwire, DTCC issued a new blockchain white paper on DeFi interoperability, and the Financial Action Task Force warned that peertopeer stablecoin transfers via "unhosted" wallets pose gaps in anti-moneylaundering controls. The summary also noted bitcoin rebounding toward the low $70,000s after a historically oversold weekly level flagged by K33, Tether Investments taking a strategic stake in Eight Sleep at a $1.5 billion valuation to pair its hardware with Tether's ondevice data platform, White House digital asset advisor Patrick Witt disputing Jamie Dimon's stablecoin yield comments, Polymarket delisting a contract on nuclear weapon use, and Coinbase's Tom Duff Gordon telling UK peers that Bank of England holding limits would prevent sterling stablecoins from scaling as settlement infrastructure.