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Sberbank estimates that regulated Russian exchanges could process about 4 trillion rubles, or $46 billion, of crypto trading in the first year. The bank also plans broader crypto-backed lending after regulatory approval.
Robinhood Chain moved ahead of Ethereum and Base on reported fee metrics as tokenized-stock and meme-token activity accelerated. The early surge follows the launch of Vlad Tenev's new blockchain network.
Ireland will allow shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products in a new tax-advantaged savings program but exclude cryptocurrency. The accounts are scheduled to become available next year and target a large pool of household deposits.
Kalshi is partnering with brokerage-infrastructure provider Alpaca to make its event contracts available to a wider international audience. The arrangement combines a prediction market with an established brokerage distribution network.
Prediction-market traders assigned roughly even odds to the US economy adding more than 50,000 jobs in August. The contracts provide a real-time view of expectations ahead of the official labor report.
ECB survey data show a modest easing in near-term inflation expectations alongside a broadly stable labour-market outlook.
The Bank of England’s latest industry survey provides a new snapshot of activity in the UK foreign-exchange market.
The ECB says Europe is moving from experimentation toward infrastructure for an integrated tokenised financial market.
An ECB Executive Board member argues that tokenised markets need central-bank money as a safe settlement asset.