Here’s a round up of the main headlines today for tokenization and digital assets:
- Digital asset bank Sygnum raises $58m funding at unicorn valuation (Ledger Insights)
- Sony announces launch of blockchain (Ledger Insights)
- Bank of England provides CBDC update plus plans for Digital Pound Lab (Ledger Insights)
- Circle publishes USDC stablecoin annual report (Ledger Insights)
- Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo buys €1 million Bitcoin for own account. Banks aren’t likely to hold lots of crypto for themselves because of Basel rules
- BIS Innovation Hub announces its plans for 2025.
- Hong Kong (HKMA) publishes plans for bank exposures to crypto-assets 1 2 3 4
- MoonPay acquires crypto payment processor HelioPay for $175m
- Chainalysis buys fraud detection firm Alterya
- BISON app, the German crypto trading app from Boerse Stuttgart, has partnered with Deutsche Bank to look after cash balances
- Crypto court ruling against SEC: Court finds partially in favor of Coinbase. The crypto exchange petitioned the SEC to create rules clarifying application of securities laws to crypto. SEC refused. The court found “SEC’s order was conclusory and insufficiently reasoned, and thus arbitrary and capricious.” So instructs the SEC to provide a proper explanation. At this stage it is not ordering the SEC to institute rulemaking proceedings.
- The Tether stablecoin plans to relocate to El Salvador after receiving a license as digital asset service provider
- NY Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) starts staff secondment program with Bank of England. Initial staff exchange is for six months+ with expertise in digital payments, distributed ledger technology, virtual currency, or digital assets.
- FIDO identity privacy vulnerability
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