Saturday, 18 July 2026 · SEA Deal Ticker

SEA Deal Ticker Sat, 18 Jul

Singapore takes all three tickets: institutional crypto, quantum-safe rails, a data-centre exit.

A Wall Street market-maker crosses the aisle: Citadel Securities puts $400M into Crypto.com at a $20B valuation — TNGlobal

The Singapore-headquartered exchange took its first institutional round in ten years, earmarking the capital for tokenised securities and derivatives.

Positive-sum angle: When a Wall Street market-maker underwrites a Singapore exchange, tokenised securities start being priced by institutions rather than retail sentiment — the precondition for pension money entering the asset class.
Encrypted data is already being harvested for later: Singapore's pQCee raises $3.9M to make it quantum-proof — TNGlobal

The seed round, co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One, follows $2.8M raised in 2022 and funds integrations already running with Thales, Microsoft and PQShield.

Positive-sum angle: Post-quantum retrofits are infrastructure nobody notices until it fails. A vendor sitting in that layer regionally means SEA banks need not import their entire cryptographic supply chain.
A 2005 telco building became an AI-era asset: CapitaLand Ascendas exits Kim Chuan at S$200.4M, double what it paid — CapitaLand

The REIT sold the Kim Chuan Telecommunications Complex for 32% above its S$151.8M June valuation, with roughly S$180M in net proceeds trimming leverage toward 41.4%.