Digital currency
- Central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland share the results of cross border wholesale CBDC project that automates FX transactions with DeFi
- European Commission publishes draft digital euro legislation
- European Central Bank (ECB) responds to digital euro CBDC legislation including a blog post
- ECB Director responsible for digital euro, Fabio Panetta, nominated to be Governor of Bank of Italy
- Digital Dollar Project publishes risk framework for U.S. CBDC
- Bank of England says retail CBDC probably won’t be blockchain-based (was it likely?): Bloomberg
Digital assets & tokenization
- GBBC’s Interwork Alliance has been working on standardizing carbon credit tokenization for years. It’s updating its Digital Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV) Framework, and is requesting public comments
- Sumitomo Americas invests in tokenized carbon credits via Carbon Opportunities Fund, and World Bank’s IFC/Chia blockchain initiative
- BitPanda Pro rebrands to One Trading. Raises $30m Series A led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Venture. Plans to be MiFID Trading Venue – ie will be able to trade tokenized securities
- HomeCoin finance has launched a ‘stablecoin’ backed by mortgages (we’re curious about how you redeem given the maturity mismatch of long term assets)
- Bank of Italy publishes smart derivatives contracts
Blockhain & web3
- Warner Music is partnering with Polygon Labs for an accelerator
- Sony Networks invests $3.5m in Startale Labs which is associated with the Astar Network
Regulation
- Bank of Italy publishes report: Making it through the (crypto) winter: facts, figures and policy issues
- UK Law Commission publishes law reform recommendations for digital assets
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