
ECB Board Member Warns of Fragmentation Without Digital Euro
ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone stated that a pan-European digital payment solution is essential to maintain monetary sovereignty and prevent market fragmentation.
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ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone stated that a pan-European digital payment solution is essential to maintain monetary sovereignty and prevent market fragmentation.

Tokenization platform Securitize saw its shares climb nearly 8% following a memorandum of understanding with LG CNS, positioning the firm for South Korea's upcoming regulatory framework.

Developers successfully ran a single Fedimint federation across three independent codebases during the Ecash Hackday in Berlin.

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade went live on the Sepolia testnet, introducing enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists to enhance layer-1 scaling.

Paxos issued its Global Dollar stablecoin natively on Arbitrum One, integrating with major DeFi protocols and proposing a 100 million ARB incentive program.

Indianapolis-based Old Major Market now retains all received bitcoin on its balance sheet, shifting from immediate liquidation to long-term holding.

The Solana Foundation released an open-source delivery-versus-payment program designed to reduce securities settlement times from days to seconds.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $89.9 million in outflows on Monday, reversing prior inflows as the underlying asset traded near $86,000.

The Ethereum Economic Zone tested an atomic transaction linking mainnet and a layer-2 network, marking a step toward bridge-free interoperability.

Strive purchased 2,000 Bitcoin for approximately $169 million between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, marking its largest acquisition since early June.

DeFi Development Corp added 26,203 SOL to its treasury between late September and early October, bringing total holdings to 2,564,212 SOL.

Caitlin Long argues that tokenizing traditional bank deposits, which total $5.7 trillion, may overshadow the $300 billion stablecoin market.