Revolut Launches Euro-Pegged EURR Stablecoin
EURR has gone live for selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with a Luxembourg subsidiary of Stripe holding the reserves.
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Taurus links digital asset platforms to Swift’s blockchain ledger
Taurus expects first institutional clients to connect in days, with initial DLT transactions through its platforms expected within weeks.
Morning Minute: LayerZero Announces ATLAS as New Settlement Engine
The market liked the news, with ZRO up 10% and jumping nearly 50% off its local bottom.
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.
Supply absorption ‘key question’ as Bitcoin fails to reclaim $80K: Analysis
Bitcoin struggled to establish support at $80,000 as investor cohorts all returned to net profitability.
Japan weighs blockchain fast lane for securities cash settlement
The FSA, Finance Ministry, BOJ and financial institutions plan to study the infrastructure and produce a development plan by early 2027.
Bitcoin takes a breather after adding 23% in 7 days as ETF demand holds steady
The price of bitcoin fell to $79,000 on Wednesday after gaining 23% in seven days as August ETF inflows climbed above $3 billion.
Strategy cuts net leverage to near zero as cash nearly matches convertible debt
The bitcoin treasury company has built nearly four years of preferred-dividend coverage while continuing to repurchase STRC below par.
Roman Storm’s Tornado Cash Retrial Pushed to April 2027
Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the retrial by more than six months, with Storm’s motion for acquittal still undecided.
Kalshi’s $1.5B equity offering is three-quarters sold at $1.12B
The Form D lists 71 investors and says Kalshi is relying on an exemption that allows certain private offerings without SEC registration.
Japan targets early 2030s launch for blockchain-based stock and bond settlement system
Japan’s regulators are racing to modernize national settlement systems to prevent institutional investors and foreign capital from fleeing to overseas markets.
Live updates: Zcash pulls back 8% as its Grayscale ETF goes live, capping a 60% rally
The privacy coin’s spot ETF began NYSE trading Tuesday, which was one of the catalysts behind its surge to an eight-year high. Now traders are selling the news, with leverage stacked into the move.
Revolut rolls out euro stablecoin in three European markets
The Bridge-issued EURR token will support multiple blockchains and external wallets, with wider EEA availability expected this year.
A massive $6.4 billion bitcoin options expiry on Friday could amplify volatility
Friday’s expiry follows bitcoin’s surge from $62,000 to $80,000, leaving market makers with increased exposure to manage around several key strike prices.
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027
Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the retrial in light of Storm’s pending motion for acquittal and related request for a continuance.
Bitcoin ETFs tear through 2026 outflows in 7-day hot streak
The funds are $390 million short of October 2025’s inflow total after cutting their year-to-date net outflow deficit by more than half.
Wall Street is making it easier for bitcoin whales to ditch self-custody: report
ETF issuers are lowering the barrier for bitcoin whales to trade self-custody for ETF shares.
XRP’s 44% rally brings leverage back, raising risk of sharper pullback
CryptoQuant data show XRP’s estimated leverage ratio on Binance at its highest since January, with long accounts outnumbering shorts as futures volume runs more than five times spot trading.
Crypto greed gauge hits highest since just before October’s $19 billion wipeout
The Fear & Greed Index reached 74 on Tuesday after sitting at 27 less than two weeks ago, showing how quickly traders have gone from caution to chasing risk.
US banking groups plan nationwide blockchain network for 2027
BankChain joins a growing field of bank-led networks building shared infrastructure for tokenized deposits and onchain payments.
Bitcoin holds $79,000, ether, solana slip as traders bank a week of gains
Every major token fell over 24 hours except HYPE, though bitcoin holds a 23% weekly gain and XRP almost 45%.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport
The 10-year project in Vermilion Parish will include five launch complexes and infrastructure for Starship missions.
U.S. state banking associations plan to launch their own nationwide blockchain network
The “BankChain Alliance” is aiming for a 2027 launch, and would foster stablecoins, payments and tokenized deposits inside the banking system’s regulatory sphere.
XRP Hot Streak Cools as Traders Hit a Wall: Where Does It Go Next?
XRP has given back two days of gains after a vertical recovery, and the charts say the bounce just met a wall.
Zerohash back for second effort at OCC trust bank charter
The crypto infrastructure firm failed to get approval when it first sought a U.S. charter, and the company is quickly back with what it said would be a narrower effort.
Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer
Alibaba’s Qwen team is teasing its next architecture a day early—and the specs say it runs near-frontier scale on a fraction of the power.
These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter
A smaller, cheaper AI usually means a dumber one. A new technique flipped that—and your phone might be the winner.
World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network
USD1 is the sixth-largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization of more than $4 billion, according to industry data.