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Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

Sep 17, 2026

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7 min read

Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

On 21 September the Eurosystem starts settling tokenized assets in central bank money. What the service does, where its limits lie, and what the operators plan for the first year.

Louis Tellier, Maximilian Vargas

Weekly Briefing

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

Sep 10, 2026

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7 min read

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

The German-born CBMT project is expanding into a broader European network as banks look beyond stablecoins to programmable commercial bank money.

Louis Tellier, Maximilian Vargas

Weekly Briefing

Sep 3, 2026

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7 min read

NYSE Selects tZERO as Second Partner for Its Tokenization Platform

The exchange is pursuing two routes onchain at once, and the separate venue is the one that needs partners built around it.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

FASB Proposes Guidance on Treating Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents in the U.S.

The proposal would clear an accounting barrier to stablecoins in corporate treasury. It would not touch the prudential one.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

SEC Opens BENJI to Franklin Templeton’s Own Funds

The no-action letter lets Franklin's mutual funds and ETFs park cash in its $726 million tokenized money market fund, and sets the first template for blockchain-based fund ownership under the 1940 Act.

Weekly Briefing

Jul 24, 2025

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15 min read

Inside the GENIUS Act: 8 Key Questions on the U.S. Stablecoin Framework

On July 17, the U.S. House passed the GENIUS Act with a supermajority of 308–122 votes. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve answered the 8 most important questions about the GENIUS Act: what it allows, who it empowers, and what comes next.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Jul 23, 2025

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2 min read

Exclusive: Banque de France Eyes Ethereum for Onchain Repo Markets

According to our information, the central bank is developing a repo system fully built on Ethereum. The institution also aims to include SG-Forge’s stablecoins and a pre-existing tokenized money market fund, like the tokenized fund issued by the startup Spiko, in the experiment. Full-scale testing is expected to begin before the end of 2025.

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Louis Tellier

Jul 17, 2025

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14 min read

Standard Chartered Rolls Out Institutional Crypto Trading

On Tuesday, Standard Chartered became the first globally systemic bank (G-SIB) to offer spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to institutional clients. Offered through its UK branch, the service will be available globally.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Jul 10, 2025

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15 min read

Exclusive: AllUnity CTO on the Strategy and Vision for EURAU, Europe’s Newest Stablecoin

Last week, German euro-stablecoin company AllUnity was granted an E-Money Institution (EMI) license by German regulator BaFin. Following this regulatory approval, we sat down with Peter Grosskopf, CTO/COO at AllUnity, for an interview.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Jul 3, 2025

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6 min read

Recap RWA Summit Cannes 2025: S&P, Apollo and the Consensus of Cannes

Centrifuge’s Real-World Asset Summit draws 300+ decision-makers to the Côte d’Azur — with JPMorgan, Apollo, S&P, and VanEck mapping out what’s next for tokenized markets.

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Maximilian Vargas, +1

Jul 3, 2025

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15 min read

ECB Announces Dual-Track Strategy For Settlement of DLT-Based Assets

The European Central Bank has unveiled a dual-track strategy to enable wholesaletlement of tokenized assets in central bank money.

Weekly Briefing

Maximilian Vargas, +1

Jun 26, 2025

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14 min read

Luxembourg Emerges as Europe’s Institutional Blockchain Hub

In Friday, Coinbase announced it had secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). It underlines the country's recent big push into digital assets.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Jun 25, 2025

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6 min read

Interview: Inside Fiserv’s Stablecoin Strategy

We spoke with Cooper Thompson, Head of Embedded Finance and Digital Assets Product, why Fiserv is betting on its own stablecoin, and how it’s working with Circle, Paxos, and PayPal to make it usable at scale.

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Maximilian Vargas, +1

Jun 19, 2025

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14 min read

JPMorgan Takes Deposit Tokens Public with Launch of JPMD on Base

It’s the first time a global systemically important bank (G-SIB) issues a deposit-based product on a permissionless chain.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

NYSE Selects tZERO as Second Partner for Its Tokenization Platform

FASB Proposes Guidance on Treating Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents in the U.S.

SEC Opens BENJI to Franklin Templeton’s Own Funds

Inside the GENIUS Act: 8 Key Questions on the U.S. Stablecoin Framework

Exclusive: Banque de France Eyes Ethereum for Onchain Repo Markets

Standard Chartered Rolls Out Institutional Crypto Trading

Exclusive: AllUnity CTO on the Strategy and Vision for EURAU, Europe’s Newest Stablecoin

Recap RWA Summit Cannes 2025: S&P, Apollo and the Consensus of Cannes

ECB Announces Dual-Track Strategy For Settlement of DLT-Based Assets

Luxembourg Emerges as Europe’s Institutional Blockchain Hub

Interview: Inside Fiserv’s Stablecoin Strategy

JPMorgan Takes Deposit Tokens Public with Launch of JPMD on Base

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