Asia's weekly TOP10 crypto news (Aug 12 to Aug 18)
1. South Korea’s National Pension Service Acquires 245,000 Shares of MicroStrategy in Q2 link The South Korean National Pension Service (NPS) disclosed in a 13F filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it purchased 245,000 shares of MicroStrategy during the second quarter of this year, valued at approximately $33.75 million. Previously, in the third quarter of last year, the NPS acquired 282,700 shares of Coinbase, marking its initial indirect investment in Bitcoin. As of July 31, MicroStrategy holds a total of 226,500 Bitcoins, making it the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin outside of Bitcoin spot ETF issuers. 2. HongKong’s Crypto News This Week 2.1 HashKey: Hong Kong’s ETH ETF Likely to Introduce Staking Functionality This Year link HashKey Group COO Livio Weng stated that the company is actively working on implementing staking functionality for Ethereum ETFs, anticipating that it could be launched within this year to meet the needs of clients moving away f...