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CoinGecko data reviewed by Cointelegraph showed steep declines in average daily trading volume across South Korea’s largest exchanges as equities rallied.
The European Union is on the cusp of giving the green light to a digital euro. Opponents worry the new CBDC could quickly become a way to surveil and control the behavior of citizens.
A leading Chinese bank has processed the largest cross-border transactions yet via mBridge, a multilateral central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform, marking a major milestone for the emerging payment network as well as Beijing’s global yuan ambitions. Tw…
Spain nominates BIS chief Pablo Hernndez de Cos for ECB president. His CBDC expertise could reshape Europe's digital asset and stablecoin The post Spain backs Pablo Hernández de Cos for ECB presidency, and crypto markets should pay attention appeared first on…
Korea’s CBDC trial went ahead after largely internal security checks, with reportedly no evidence of an independent post-test review. South Korea’s central bank ran its... The post Korea’s CBDC Pilot Had No Outside Security Audit: Report appeared first on Bit…
Europe has developed a clear crypto regulatory framework, but the ECB warns that this may not be enough to protect the banking system. As stablecoins... The post EU vs. Crypto: ECB Warns Stablecoins Could Drain Deposits Despite Europe’s MiCA appeared first on…
Retail users in Vietnam who trade on offshore crypto exchanges like Binance or OKX face heavy penalties. Network School controversy in Malaysia over Israeli citizen ban.
The Bank of Korea’s upcoming pilot will test live transactional rails for institutional deposit tokens to future-proof the nation's financial infrastructure.
Afriend and I got into it recently. He’s smart, freedom-minded, and totally gets the danger of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Expiring money, programmable control, carbon budgets – he sees most of the expanding tyranny clearly. And yet he dismisses D…
Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.
South Korea could launch the second phase of its Project Hangang CBDC pilot in September, expanding to nine banks and testing government subsidy payments.
Chainlink's CCIP protocol is now embedded in central bank projects across Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia, the UK, and mBridge nations for CBDC and tokenized The post Chainlink embedded in central bank projects across five countries appeared first on Crypto Brie…
ECB's Piero Cipollone positions the digital euro as essential for banking trust, with no interest, holding caps, and potential issuance targeted for 2029. The post European Central Bank emphasizes digital euro’s role in banking trust appeared first on Crypto …
The CLARITY Act's Senate window is closing, but the real deadline belongs to compliance teams. What GCs, CCOs and boards should do before August, pass or fail.
From tokenized public spending trials to government bond pilots, the state is aggressively pushing public finance onto distributed ledgers.