How can the UK catch up on stablecoins?

Inquiry warns country risks missing out on potential benefits of new form of digital money because of excessive regulation

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

All the gold in Fort Knox wasn’t enough to save the US dollar

Premier League clubs could face legal action over sponsorship deals with crypto firms

UK regulator focuses on teams with partnerships with digital assets companies that are not authorised to operate in Britain

Gold replaces US Treasuries as world’s top reserve asset, ECB says

Historic bullion rally boosts metal’s share of reserves to 27% while central banks diversify away from dollar

Crypto treasuries turn to risky equity in drive to raise cash

Companies that stock up on crypto assets are following Michael Saylor’s Strategy into so-called digital credit

US agrees ‘perpetual’ futures trading after offshore Hyperliquid’s huge growth

Oil-linked trading on unregulated and decentralised crypto exchange has skyrocketed during Iran war

The Asian currency trading at ‘crisis’ levels despite an AI chip bonanza

AI is driving a record trade surplus yet Seoul still has one of Asia’s worst-performing currencies

Rouble’s strength piles pressure on Russian war economy

Rising energy exports have helped push currency to three-year high, making other exports less competitive

Central banks complete successful tests of cross-border blockchain payments

Prototype, backed by Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BoE, allows near-instantaneous settlement of payments

AI’s mixed economic signals

Plus, the euro convergence trade

How some blockchains enable front-running

Regulators need to tackle the issue and address the cost to investors of excessive transparency

Eurozone issuers turn to non-euro debt in hunt for new investors

Sovereign borrowers look to issuance in US dollars, Swiss francs and other currencies

UK imposes sanctions on crypto exchange tied to billionaire Justin Sun

Foreign Office announces measures against Huobi among several entities it says helped Russia evade economic pressure

A bitcoin miner spent $860k armouring vehicles for its bosses, a fact for which we have very little context

The best defence may in fact be defence

Crypto industry braces for quantum computing threat

Threat to code that underpins bitcoin has moved ‘from theoretical to credible’, industry figures warn

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