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On February 11, 2026, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, under the spotlight of the Consensus conference, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) CEO Julia Leung and the Executive Director of the Intermediaries Division, Ye Chih-hang, took the stage one after another. They announced a package of new regulations that sent a deep water bomb into the digital asset market—licensed virtual asset brokers can now provide financing services to securities margin clients, perpetual contracts received their first regulatory framework, and platform affiliates are allowed to act as market makers. This is the most significant regulatory move by the Hong Kong SFC in the digital asset field since the release of the ASPIRe roadmap in February 2025. But compared to the surface-level headline of "Hong Kong finally loosening crypto leverage," a more important question to ask is: why now? Why are collateral assets limited to Bitcoin and Ethereum? Why is the margin reduction rate set at 60%? Answers to these questions point to a deeper proposition: the Hong Kong SFC is treating the virtual asset market as a digital asset monitor.

Author: Jae, PANews What should "true DeFi" look like? When Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin cast his vote for algorithmic stablecoins, a reflection on risk, governance, and monetary sovereignty was reignited. A single tweet was enough to shake a narrative worth hundreds of billions of dollars. On February 9, Vitalik Buterin tweeted a compelling point: algorithmic stablecoins are the "real DeFi." This is not a technical tweak to the current stablecoin landscape, but an authoritative redefinition of DeFi's underlying logic. In a world where centralized stablecoins like USDT and USDC dominate, Vitalik's statement is like a deep-water bomb, bringing the long-dormant algorithmic stablecoin track back into the spotlight. Decoupling risks of stablecoins and de-dollarization interpretation

Author: Jae, PANews What should "true DeFi" look like? When Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin cast his vote for algorithmic stablecoins, a reflection on risk, governance, and monetary sovereignty was reignited. A single tweet was enough to shake a narrative worth hundreds of billions of dollars. On February 9, Vitalik Buterin tweeted a compelling point: algorithmic stablecoins are the "real DeFi." This is not a technical tweak to the current stablecoin landscape, but an authoritative redefinition of DeFi's underlying logic. In a world where centralized stablecoins like USDT and USDC dominate, Vitalik's statement is like a deep-water bomb, bringing the long-dormant algorithmic stablecoin track back into the spotlight. Decoupling risks of stablecoins and de-dollarization interpretation

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure David Schwartz, Ripple’s former CTO and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger, poured cold water on the idea of returning to Bitcoin development this week, calling Bitcoin “largely a

Author: Jae, PANews What should "true DeFi" look like? When Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin cast his vote for algorithmic stablecoins, a reflection on risk, governance, and monetary sovereignty was reignited. A single tweet was enough to shake a narrative worth hundreds of billions of dollars. On February 9, Vitalik Buterin tweeted a compelling point: algorithmic stablecoins are the "real DeFi." This is not a technical tweak to the current stablecoin landscape, but an authoritative redefinition of DeFi's underlying logic. In a world where centralized stablecoins like USDT and USDC dominate, Vitalik's statement is like a deep-water bomb, bringing the long-dormant algorithmic stablecoin track back into the spotlight. Decoupling risks of stablecoins and de-dollarization interpretation