In September 2024, Visa published a research paper describing “smart contract wallets” that could automatically manage a user’s finances: paying bills, rebalancing...
On January 10, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs simultaneously. Within 11 months, these funds accumulated...
When the European Investment Bank issued a €100 million digital bond on Ethereum in November 2023, it did not use blockchain because...
In 2015, the World Economic Forum predicted that 10% of global GDP would be stored on blockchain by 2027. That estimate now...
In Dubai, a government-owned free zone called DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) granted crypto exchange licences to Binance, OKX, and Bybit in...
The first-order effects of blockchain on finance are well documented: faster settlement, lower transaction costs, and programmable assets. But the more consequential...
More than 80% of the world’s central banks are exploring digital currencies, according to a 2024 survey by the Bank for International...
Central bank digital currencies are now live in 11 countries and in advanced pilot stages in 25 more. The Atlantic Council’s CBDC...