French lawmakers led by Éric Ciotti are pushing to block the European Central Bank’s digital euro, promoting euro-denominated stablecoins and crypto investments instead.
Kyrgyzstan has launched a som-backed stablecoin, KGST, and revealed plans for a central bank digital currency and a national crypto reserve, with Binance supporting the rollout and the central bank testing a closed-chain pilot for government and commercial payments.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said BitMEX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) between