The EU central bank's new wholesale platform connects DLT market infrastructure to its payment rails, separate from the retail digital euro pilot planned for 2027.
The 12-month test will put a beta version of the central bank currency through online, mobile, in-store and peer-to-peer payments.
Read the latest update on ECB Digital Euro Report Keeps Preparation Phase Moving.
A Federal Reserve research paper has compared wholesale CBDC settlement with tokenized commercial bank deposits, adding another official research layer to th...
Central bank officials say the Eurosystem will be structurally unable to link users to purchases, but civil society groups remain skeptical.
Japan's regulators are racing to modernize national settlement systems to prevent institutional investors and foreign capital from fleeing to overseas markets.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) added 20 new operators this year across two rounds of expansions, including eight additions this week.
The BOE-led Digital Pound Lab will test trade-finance interoperability, in which exporters receive stablecoins while importers settle in a potential digital pound.
Major banking heavyweights join a massive blockchain network test that will allow retail consumers to trade tokenized won freely across commercial lines.
The pilot will test a beta version of the digital euro for online, offline, in-store, and e-commerce payments with ECB and central bank staff as users.
Despite President Donald Trump's refusal to sign Congress' bipartisan housing bill, it's set to go into effect at midnight, and its temporary CBDC ban along with it.
Congress just blocked the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC, and the companies benefiting most are private stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate 85-5 on June 22 and cleared the House 358-32 the next day, and folded inside that housing package is a four-year ban […]
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President Donald Trump has spent his second term trying to close the door on a U.S. central bank digital currency. On Wednesday, he canceled a planned signing ceremony for a housing bill that would put a temporary ban on a Fed-issued digital dollar into federal law. The decision placed Trump in the unusual position of […]
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As Congress prepared to celebrate the president's signing of the bipartisan housing bill that contains a CBDC prohibition, Trump abruptly cancelled the event.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act included a provision that the US Federal Reserve was barred from issuing or creating a CBDC until 2030, but exempted certain stablecoins.
Congress Sends Anti-CBDC Housing Bill To Trump After House Vote
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The House passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act after earlier Senate app
The House passed a housing bill with a central bank digital currency ban until 2030, meaning it now just needs US President Donald Trump’s sign-off.
The European Central Bank’s digital euro project secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday. The vote moves Europe in the opposite direction from US lawm
Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the past decade warning Americans about the risks posed by privately issued and decentralized digital assets. Over the years, the Massachusetts Democrat has built a reputation as one of crypto industry’s most recognizable critics by persistently linking the emerging industry to money laundering, speculative excess, consumer losses, and sanctions […]
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EU lawmakers backed rules for an offline and online digital euro, with privacy safeguards, holding limits and no interest payments.
A sweeping U.S. housing package has become a fresh flashpoint for crypto policy after the Senate-backed version included language blocking the Federal Rese
The Senate voted 85-5 to pass a major housing affordability bill that includes a ban on the Federal Reserve making a central bank digital currency until 2030.
The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.
Hong Kong’s HKEX and HKMA launched a pilot using e-HKD for after-hours derivatives margin payments, testing wholesale CBDC in live market infrastructure.
A bipartisan deal in Congress would block the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC until the end of 2030, though the measure has not yet become law.
US Senate and House leaders have jointly released an updated version of a housing legislation that includes a CBDC ban.
The US could soon temporarily ban a central bank digital currency, as House and Senate leaders came to a deal on the 21st Century Road to Housing Act.
Publicly, the U.S. has fiercely opposed a Central Bank Digital Currency, but former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said it is inevitable and there will be one sooner or later.
France’s central bank deputy governor told CoinDesk public and private European entities need to get involved in digital asset development, diverging sharply from Christine Lagarde’s stance.
Lagarde warned that large stablecoins like Tether and USDC, which now dominate a $310 billion market, pose financial stability risks and could transmit stress to underlying asset markets during periods of turmoil.