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South Korea’s top financial conglomerate team up with Visa to test stablecoin issuance and B2B settlements
Shinhan Financial Group will use Visa’s platform to test stablecoin issuance, remittance, and redemption while building new AI-powered payment models.
Dallas Fed warns tokenized deposits could strip $700 billion from U.S. banks' lending capacity
Programmable deposits and AI agents may enable instantaneous, automated bank switching for higher yields, driving up bank funding costs.
ECB claims digital euro will offer 'maximum level of privacy' amid surveillance fears
Central bank officials say the Eurosystem will be structurally unable to link users to purchases, but civil society groups remain skeptical.
Euro stablecoins get a mainstream push as Revolut begins rolling out EURR in Europe
Revolut said the stablecoin’s rollout will start with a select group of customers within Denmark, Poland, and Portugal.
Bitwise turns Coinbase's tokenized stocks into automated AI, robotics and tech portfolios
The crypto ETF issuer is pushing deeper into onchain asset management as tokenization create new ways to build and manage investments.
Las Vegas businessman convicted in $24 million 'AI supercomputer' crypto Ponzi scheme
Brent Kovar has been found guilty of running a crypto Ponzi scheme, defrauding at least 400 investors out of $24 million.
U.S. widens Iran crackdown to encompass crypto, gold, shipping and technology
Treasury says Ivan Obukhov processed over $100 million in crypto for IRGC-QF oil sales since 2023.
Monad proposes wallet upgrade that could survive lost keys and quantum attacks
The Ethereum-compatible blockchain wants users to be able to replace the keys controlling an account without changing its address, opening the door to passkeys, recovery tools and post-quantum security.
Strategy raises $2 billion through MSTR sales and creates new USD Cash pool
The company sold 18.26 million MSTR shares, increased its USD Reserve to $5.1 billion and repurchased another $136.4 million of STRC.
Standard Chartered becomes first bank to distribute Hong Kong dollar stablecoin
The London-based multinational bank with $850 billion in assets announced it will distribute Anchorpoint's HKDAP to eligible clients and partners.
