Welcome back to Continuum Risk Update. Every Friday we pull the top Asia headlines on digital-asset regulation, cyber risk, industry moves and insurance signals, with concise takeaways and practical actions for insurers and corporate risk teams.
🏛️ Regulatory
Bitget will stop accepting new Japanese registrations and close all remaining positions by year-end, making it the latest crypto exchange to exit Japan’s demanding FSA licensing regime.
https://lnkd.in/g3ds6mX3
⚠️ Hacking & Physical Risks
2. A volunteer group running AI against Bitcoin codebases flagged 85 critical vulnerabilities, describing the situation as extremely bad. The disclosure raises serious questions about how long known flaws can go unpatched across core blockchain infrastructure.
https://lnkd.in/gEJg_RSr
Non-custodial swap service Boltz suspended operations after detecting a coordinated wave of AI-assisted attacks, marking one of the first confirmed cases of attackers using AI to probe and exploit DeFi infrastructure in real time.
https://lnkd.in/gDDxyYkE
📊 Industry & Markets
4. Japan’s yen stablecoin company JPYC raised $38M in a Series B led by logistics giant AZ-COM Maruwa, the same firm paying 2,300 logistics partners in JPYC. The back-to-back moves signal Japan’s stablecoin ecosystem is moving fast from concept to corporate infrastructure.
https://lnkd.in/gyJf6hiE
With semiconductor fabs concentrating in earthquake and typhoon-exposed zones across Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, reinsurers face growing accumulation risk in a single asset class that is now central to global AI infrastructure.
https://lnkd.in/gxB49Qm5
🛡️ Insurance Spotlight
6. Axa XL agreed to fully acquire S-RM, a cyber security and incident response firm with its Asia Pacific division headquartered in Hong Kong. The deal deepens the insurer’s in-house cyber capabilities across the region as demand for specialist capacity grows.
https://lnkd.in/ggHB7KkU
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