The Great Crypto Split: 7 Stories That Redrew the Map

This episode connects seven stories most outlets are covering separately, and shows why they're actually one story.What we cover:- Why Hyperliquid Policy Center wrote a public letter to U.S. regulators — and what $6.5 trillion in 2025 on-chain perpetuals volume means for the future of decentralized derivatives- How three U.S. states (Massachusetts, New York, Arizona) and the CFTC are fighting in court over who regulates prediction markets — and why the ruling reshapes every event-style crypto product- What Poland's parliamentary deadlock is doing to the EU's MiCA regulation, and why 65 days remain until the bloc's first real enforcement-credibility test- Why Pavel Durov's allegation against the French tax authority — and 41 crypto-targeted kidnappings in 2026 — turned KYC from a compliance cost into a board-level physical-security risk- Hong Kong's "world first" tokenized-product framework, HashKey's Visa card with Shanghai Commercial Bank, and why English-language media is missing the most important Asia story of 2026- Switzerland's FINMA quietly classifying AI deployment as a systemic banking risk — the first regulator anywhere to do so, and why every other major financial regulator will follow within twelve months- Vietnam's announcement of a five-year onshoring pilot for $220 to $230 billion in offshore crypto trading — the largest emerging-market crypto policy move of the year, and a template Indonesia and the Philippines are watching