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Finance

French banking giant Crédit Agricole rolls out euro stablecoin, EURXT

EURXT debuted with 20 million tokens in circulation, backed 1:1 by euro reserves at Caceis Bank, and competes with Circle's EURC and SocGen's EURCV.

Man walking into Credit Agricole branch

Markets

Chainlink teams up with 47 South Korean, European banks to speed up international money transfers

The alliance, called Project Pangea, plans to use stablecoins to settle multimillion-dollar currency trades between Europe and South Korea in near real time.

Niki Ariyasinghe, Chainlink’s vice president of Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. (Chainlink/Media)

Finance

Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto calls on members to campaign against banks blocking digital asset transactions

Stand With Crypto UK is telling its members to file formal complaints with high-street banks over sector-wide transfer bans.

(SWC/Coinbase)

Videos

'I will not vote for Clarity until we address ethics': Sen. Angela Alsobrooks

Senator Angela Alsobrooks joins hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti to discuss the three outstanding issues she needs resolved before voting Clarity off the Senate floor. Plus, insights into Jamie Dimon's criticism over stablecoin yield. And, former Congressman George Santos named person of the week for the Kalshi insider trading investigation.

'I will not vote for Clarity until we address ethics': Sen. Angela Alsobrooks

Policy

Banks' survey says people don't want to rock the boat if stablecoin yield risks lending

The American Bankers Association, which lobbies against the crypto sector over the Clarity Act's stablecoin section, unveiled its new polling.

banks in London (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Finance

Franklin Templeton says Wall Street fears blockchain because it threatens its profits

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton's CEO, said blockchain and crypto threaten a huge number of business models that exist today in traditional finance.

Adam Back and Jenny Johnson (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Videos

Strategy sells Bitcoin for the first time in 4 years

Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 at an average price of $77,135. Proceeds will fund distributions on its preferred stock. The news pushed bitcoin under $72,000. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

Strategy sells Bitcoin for the first time in 4 years

Policy

Wall Street gets new crypto rival after Texas bank completes regulatory pivot

By establishing a national charter under the executive branch, United Texas Bank said it intends to enable AI-driven payment rails to intercept global digital dollar volumes.

United Texas Bank. (UTB/Press)

Videos

Why is Asia the epicenter of the next digital asset supercycle?

At #ConsensusMiami, Joseph Chee, Executive Chairman of Solana Company, shared a strategic vision for the "Pacific Backbone" and the institutional road to 5 billion users. Key Takeaways: - Utility & Compliance: APAC institutions are prioritizing stable, end-to-end workflows over market speculation. - Institutional Scale: Partnerships with giants like Mirae ($800B AUM) are moving RWA tokenization from theory to massive scale across Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore. - The Talent Moat: With 10M+ annual STEM grads, the region is no longer just a consumer—it is building the next global financial layer.、 - The B2B2C Path: Navigating 21 different jurisdictions requires a regulated, partner-led strategy—the only viable way to achieve true mass adoption. Watch the interview to see how Solana Company is bridging infrastructure and institutional finance across the Pacific.

Why is Asia the epicenter of the next digital asset supercycle?

Finance

Why Minnesota is empowering local banks to fight Wall Street for crypto revenue

A local banker told CoinDesk that in light of Wall Street’s aggressive push into the crypto industry, Minnesota's financial institutions could not afford to remain on the sidelines.

(Bernadette "Bernie" Perryman)