A Q&A with SEC commissioner and “Crypto Mom” Hester Peirce, on her criticisms of the SEC’s approach to crypto, chairman Gary Gensler’s leadership, and more (Benjamin Pimentel/Protocol)

Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider, raises a $120M Series C+ at a $1B+ valuation  —  Digital payments processor Opn, formerly known as Synqa, said it had raised $120 million in a Series C+ funding round, becoming a rare unicorn, or startup worth more than $1 billion, in Japan.