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No major platform has a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency content in 2025. What’s restricted is mainly advertising and paid/branded content. Google allows crypto ads with certification and country-specific rules; Meta requires written permission and licensing; TikTok tightly gates branded and financial ads; YouTube follows Google’s ad policy and separate monetization rules; X (Twitter) permits some crypto/NFT ads under its…

No South Asian flag carrier has switched on on-chain ticket payments yet, but the pieces are falling into place: Air India just adopted a blockchain-powered loyalty integration, regional neighbors like Emirates are moving to enable crypto checkout, and multiple OTAs already let you book South Asian carriers with crypto via payment processors. What’s missing is country-by-country compliance clarity and a…

“Global coin offerings” (ICOs/STOs/IEOs/IDOs and similar sales) sit in a fast-shifting regulatory map. In 2025, the EU’s MiCA regime is coming fully online, the UK is enforcing strict marketing rules, Hong Kong and Singapore have formal frameworks (including new stablecoin regimes), Dubai updated its VA rulebooks, and the U.S. SEC—despite softening its posture—still treats many tokens as securities. Meanwhile, hacks…