ICYMI: Here's a quick news recap from today's Asia & EMEA sessions @TheBlockCo 👇 📈 Bitcoin tested the $75,000 level early Tuesday, with crypto prices climbing alongside a wave of short liquidations and improving macro sentiment. 🚪 Crypto market data platform Messari announced that CEO Eric Turner is stepping down, and the company has conducted layoffs as it pivots to focus on AI. 🇰🇷 Crypto . com partnered with KG Inicis, South Korea's largest payment gateway and value-added network provider, to allow foreign tourists to use digital assets to pay for local goods and services. 🧑‍⚖️ A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for using his badge to help "Crypto Godfather" Adam Iza extort rivals and engineer the false arrest of a business enemy. 📄 Cango reported a net loss of $452.8 million for its inaugural full year as a bitcoin miner despite generating $688.1 million in total revenue. 🏛️ Stand With Crypto stakeholders from states across the country sent a letter to senators urging them to protect decentralized finance and preserve a provision that allows crypto exchanges to offer rewards on stablecoins. 🇦🇷 A court in Buenos Aires ordered a nationwide block of Polymarket, citing concerns that the crypto-based prediction platform operates as an unlicensed online betting system. 🇻🇳 The Vietnamese finance ministry is reportedly drafting rules that would prohibit citizens from trading on overseas cryptocurrency platforms as local private banks and brokerages prepare to operate the country's first licensed exchanges. 💰 Mastercard said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million in contingent payments. 🪙 PayPal said it is expanding access to its PYUSD stablecoin to customers in 68 countries beyond the U.S. and UK.

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