Digital Euro: ECB opens 2027 pilot applications to merchants
The 12-month operational phase runs from Q3 2027 through Q3 2028, and participation tests merchant acceptance without ever making the beta legal tender or committing the ECB to issue.
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The 12-month operational phase runs from Q3 2027 through Q3 2028, and participation tests merchant acceptance without ever making the beta legal tender or committing the ECB to issue.
Months after dismissing the pitch, Goldman published research on Hyperliquid and hosted roughly 20 investors including Point72 and Citadel, pushing institutional interest past token exposure into the…
The 28-21 committee vote moves H.R. 8957 toward a full House floor fight, putting a formal federal Bitcoin stockpile one step closer to law.
The real prize is grid-connected power: miners trade at 12.9x forward sales versus 3.7x for those without AI contracts, as 151 data-center moratoriums and a five-year interconnection queue make…
The measure could turn purchases of Russian crude into a source of secondary trade pressure, with wider consequences for energy flows and geopolitics.
Later-stage deals captured nearly 79% of the quarter's capital, and the U.S. took almost three-quarters of it, even as new fund count fell to its lowest since 2019.
The signal reaches beyond housing: weak transaction activity can weigh on lenders, builders and consumer spending across the US economy.
Price stability is now the Fed’s predominant focus, while Warsh declined to signal another hike and warned against relying on individual data releases.
The delay pushes a federal Bitcoin reserve proposal past its expected committee checkpoint, leaving the timing of its next legislative step open.
The crypto market structure bill survives on the Senate calendar, but JPMorgan counts only about two and a half weeks of Senate time left before midterms, pushing the focus toward SEC and CFTC…
The vote moves tax certainty closer to federal law, but committee approval alone does not change the rules investors face today.
The suit chases 6,360 BTC lost in the March 2020 Covid crash, but it also reopens the gap between Celsius's delta-neutral marketing and the leveraged longs its own bankruptcy filings describe.
Stani Kulechov says growing adoption could force Washington's hand, while Aave's new real-world asset hub on Avalanche targets institutional lending in tokenized securities.
Wall Street's embrace of tokenized securities and stablecoins has widened crypto's addressable market, and Lee says leverage, the cycle clock and the CLARITY Act all point the same way.
The bill's practical value will hinge on its provisions and its progress through Congress, not the committee milestone alone.
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act clears committee with massive bipartisan support just 24 hours after the Clarity Act collapsed in the Senate, keeping small-payment tax relief alive this session.
The ATM program adds optional financing capacity for more SOL purchases, but the cumulative 13% payout means full issuance would cost roughly $39M a year in dividends.
Visa and Ripple on the same cap table for a B2B payments startup is the structural signal: traditional card-network money and crypto-native rails are co-investing in the same settlement layer.
The pledge puts the SEC at the center of the US policy timetable, a key signal for institutions assessing digital-asset products and exposure.
Germany's largest lender entering digital asset storage puts BTC, ETH and stablecoins inside a major TradFi custody stack, pending regulatory approval later this year.