ECB picks 36 firms incl. Stripe, Deutsche Bank for digital euro test
The test roster covers banks, payment processors, and neobanks across the eurozone, hinting at how the ECB plans to distribute a retail CBDC when the pilot goes live in 2027.
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The test roster covers banks, payment processors, and neobanks across the eurozone, hinting at how the ECB plans to distribute a retail CBDC when the pilot goes live in 2027.
The delisting wave has cooled to 400–500 tokens a quarter in 2026, but the Gate concentration tells the structural story: a single venue now drives most of the cleanup of low-liquidity altcoin…
The 12-month pilot covers online, offline, in-store and e-commerce flows across 19 euro-area central banks, with potential issuance targeted for 2029 if EU legislation lands.
Japan's largest card network, with 140M cardholders and 40M merchants globally, signed an MOU with Circle to push USDC into cross-border payments and in-store settlement, accelerating Tokyo's…
The headline geopolitical risk would normally jolt $BTC, but spot price action through the strikes suggests traders are treating this as a known, priced-in tail rather than an escalation.
Headline CPI is set to fall on cheap gas, but Brent above $87 and sticky core inflation already have money markets pricing a 40-50% chance of a July rate hike.
The structural fractal keeps lining up with the 2018 drawdown, but liquidity and business-cycle signals point to a shorter cycle and a market bottom likely landing before year-end.
827 $BTC (≈52M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
827 $BTC (≈51.9M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
827 $BTC (≈51.9M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
The renewed Strait of Hormuz fight has revived the Nacho trade, pushed Brent crude up nearly 4% and dragged the CD20 down 0.6%, with a June CPI print now deciding whether the Fed hikes in July.
The KOSPI has shed 10% since Friday and Upbit volume jumped 1,426%, an unwind of the chip-trade exit that pulled Korean capital out of digital assets late last year.
The RHODL Ratio hit 6.5, its second-highest reading ever, then rolled over while price stayed flat, a pattern that historically precedes major moves rather than collapses.
Strategy's new index shows banks still early on the Bitcoin build-out, even as individuals hold 66.1% of total supply and dwarf every institutional category combined.
The L2 launched barely a week ago and is already routing more on-chain trading than two of Ethereum's most entrenched scaling layers.
The 30-day moving average has slipped under 2024 levels, and Glassnode frames the dip as a quiet regime, not a structural break, with attention rotated elsewhere until $BTC momentum returns.
Santiment flags a contrarian red flag: retail piling into XRP and ether as both tokens fade, while bitcoin sentiment stays flat, a crowd structure that has historically preceded further downside.
Customer balances moved opposite ways across the exchange's three largest assets, and the cross-venue pattern at Bybit and OKX is what turns the Binance snapshot into a market-wide read on capital…
The transfers came from wallets tied to criminal-case seizures, including the BTC-e exchange and Ryan Farace.
Scott Allen Simpkins admitted lying to federal investigators about a 2021 incident in which crypto figure Adam Iza pressured a victim into a $25,000 transfer.