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Coins.ph has expanded support for digital asset payments on the Philippines’ national QR Ph network, allowing users to spend Bitcoin and Ethereum at nearly 700,000 merchants nationwide.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has introduced stricter cryptocurrency listing requirements that prohibit licensed Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) from offering privacy-enhancing digital assets while tightening compliance standards across the sector.

Senator Imee Marcos hopes the trial of impeached Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte would conclude by September and says she prefers that only evidence pertinent to the case would be presented in the proceedings. Duterte will be tried in the Senate that's set to start in July and Marcos, the estranged sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is among 13 lawmakers from the 24-member chamber allied with the vice president.