Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Wei Zhou isn’t sugarcoating the state of retail crypto. “Deader than dead,” he jokes. Over the past year, as retail speculation dried up, consumer-facing exchanges had to figure out how to survive. For Coins.ph, the answer was to completely pivot into backend financial infrastructure. Speaking with BitPinas at Coinfest Asia in Bali, the Coins.ph CEO explained how the Philippine exchange is aiming and now transforming itself into an institutional payment engine, a move that now drives nearly $100 million in …