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.
The high-profile crypto critic now wants a brake on frontier AI, adding a Senate voice to the growing regulatory push against uncontrolled model scaling.
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 market read turns on policy room: cooling inflation could revive rate-cut expectations, while persistent price pressure would keep policy restrictive.
The signal reaches beyond housing: weak transaction activity can weigh on lenders, builders and consumer spending across the US economy.
The V1 format lifts per-transaction data past 4,096 bytes while slot times shrink toward 200ms, and both land during Solana's busiest stretch on record, including 5.2 billion August transactions.
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 unanimous 12–0 vote matters less than the dots: 16 of 18 officials see at least one more hike in 2026, and few see rates below 4% by end-2027.
The first hike in over three years came with a hawkish dot plot: 16 of 18 policymakers see another quarter-point move this year, setting up a longer tightening path than markets had priced.
The setback leaves XRP's treatment intact but shifts the near-term rulebook toward agency guidance, which regulators can revise.
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 Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act creates a de minimis carve-out for small crypto transactions and treats mining and staking as ordinary income, while Senate momentum stalls on the broader Clarity…
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.
Federal prosecutors say the pair traded perps on confidential listing intel, a test of whether commodities-fraud law reaches decentralized venues where the information source and the trading platform…