BREAKING
- Shopify customers can now pay with USDC via Solana Pay. At €0.0002 per transaction, costs are a fraction of what major credit card providers charge (1.5%-2.5%).
MORE
- Paypal launches its own stablecoin, PYUSD.
- A court rules in favor of Grayscale against the SEC, sharply increasing the likelihood of a first Bitcoin ETF in the near term.
- Twitter acquires a license to integrate crypto payments.
- FedNow, the new payment system of US banks, integrates the Hedera Hashgraph blockchain.
- Microsoft is working with Aptos Labs to develop AI tools that support banks in exploring blockchain integrations.
- Etihad Airways' Web3 loyalty program "Horizon Club" allows NFTs to be "staked" to collect miles.
- Nvidia (NVDA) now officially has a higher market capitalization (€1.1 billion) than the entire crypto sector (€1 billion).
- BaFin grants digital asset specialist Hyphe Markets GmbH a license in Germany.
SPEAKERS’ CORNER
- Client conversations made clear that investment managers have increasingly shifted their focus to artificial intelligence (AI).
- The (AI) market is currently driven strongly by momentum. This has come partly at the expense of blockchain technology, though we are firmly convinced that these two technologies will not operate separately from one another going forward.
- The announcement by several banks that they will significantly expand their "Digital Assets" headcount also underpins our assessment.
Translated from the German original, which is the authoritative version. Read the German version
