Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Traditional international wire transfers are notoriously slow, expensive, and bogged down by bank holds. For freelancers, online merchants, and globally distributed teams, getting paid across borders usually means watching hard-earned money shrink under intermediary fees and taking days to clear. Even early crypto-payment processors tried to solve this by stepping into the middle, holding merchant funds in custodial wallets before trickling payouts to bank accounts. Morph, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network designed for consumer payments, is launching Morph Payments, …

