Image by Ledger Insights During the past week Circle’s President Heath Tarbert visited Korea and held meetings with the central bank and big four commercial banks, KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana and Woori. Multiple news outlets reported that Circle has no intention of participating in the issuance of a won stablecoin. Instead, Mr Tarbert aimed to …
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Image by Ledger Insights Three organizations based in the Netherlands are collaborating on the issuance of a MiCAR compliant euro stablecoin, EURQ. Technically, it’s an ‘electronic money token’ (EMT). Stablecoin firm Quantoz Payments is partnering EU multilateral trading facility NPEX and its blockchain partner Dusk, aiming to support regulated finance on the Dusk blockchain. EURQ already …
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Image by Ledger Insights Taurus, the tokenization and digital asset custody technology firm, has unveiled a new open source standard for private token transactions on permissionless blockchains. It developed the open source standard for smart contracts in association with the Aztec Foundation that oversees the Layer 2 blockchain protocol, which uses zero knowledge proofs (ZKP) …
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Image by Ledger Insights Today Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published a 12 point ASPIRe roadmap for the territory to become a global digital asset hub. Until October last year, it had licensed two cryptocurrency exchanges. That figure rose to ten yesterday with the licensing of Bullish, the exchange founded by Block.one and …
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Image by Ledger Insights Last week Thailand’s Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira said the government plans to issue Baht 5 billion ($148m) in government bonds directly to the public by the end of the fiscal year (September 30). The initial issuance will be treated as a sandbox project and tradable on a digital bond platform, perhaps …
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Image by Ledger Insights Brazil’s Braza Group has launched a Brazilian Real stablecoin BBRL. The issuance is particularly significant because its primary activity is as a foreign exchange (FX) bank. During the first half of 2024 it was involved in US$30 billion of transactions. It ranks sixth in the central bank’s interbank markets and has …
Image by Ledger Insights The Bank of Israel conducted a thoughtful survey process for its Digital Shekel central bank digital currency (CBDC). It found that 51% of respondents had either a high or intermediate interest in the digital currency. Some of the responses received contrasted with other CBDC surveys. For example, privacy did not rank …
Digital shekel CBDC survey finds considerable user interest, especially if remunerated Read More »
Image by Ledger Insights Societe Generale FORGE (SG-FORCE) said it plans to introduce its MiCAR compliant stablecoin EURCV to the Stellar blockchain. The stablecoin was first launched on Ethereum, which remains the sole blockchain so far. However, it also plans to issue on Solana and the XRP Ledger. “Our upcoming integration with Stellar represents a …
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Image by Ledger Insights Six major trade associations representing US traditional financial (TradFi) institutions, wrote a letter to White House AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, congratulating the administration on its new approach to digital assets and the creation of the President’s Working Group (PWG) on Digital Asset Markets. However, they want incumbents to be …
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Image by Ledger Insights The initial rollout of Russia’s retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) was originally planned for 1 July 2025, but the launch was postponed until 1 September 2026. However, federal government departments can use the digital ruble starting 1 January 2026, with the Ministry of Finance defining the types of permitted payments …
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