Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. If a currently drafted BSP memorandum will push through, local crypto platforms, e-wallet providers, major banks, and digital banks in the Philippines have just 90 days to connect their customer onboarding pipelines directly to the government’s central identity database. Under a draft memorandum from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), licensed Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP), Electronic Money Issuers (EMI), and retail banks must integrate with the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) National ID Authentication Services (NIDAS). The mandatory upgrade gives …