ECB Selects 36 Payment Providers for Digital Euro Pilot Across 19 European Nations
Key Takeaways: The ECB has picked 36 payment service providers to join its digital euro pilot. Testing will start in
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Local Banks Pilot JPMorgan’s JPM Coin in Argentina – Crypto News Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: CMF and other banks are testing JPMorgan’s JPM Coin in phase one to speed up interbank settlement times.
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Salad.com and Golem Network Partner to Pilot Decentralized GPU Cloud Infrastructure
Salad.com has partnered with Golem Network to test whether decentralized Web3 infrastructure can support Salad’s large-scale commercial workloads. Streamlining the
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Central Bank of Brazil Postpones CBDC Strategy, Shuts Down Current Pilot Platform
The Central Bank of Brazil announced it would discontinue the platform used to run drex, the Brazilian CBDC initiative, during
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Bitcoin Banknote-ATM Network Pilot Launches in El Zonte, El Salvador
Satnotes to dispense 500 satoshi‑denominated banknotes via a community ATM pilot on Jan 1, 2026. The Satnotes El Zonte Experiment
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Austria’s 21bitcoin Launches Europe-First Bitcoin-Backed Loan Pilot With VR Bank and Sopra
21bitcoin operator FIOR Digital GmbH has launched a Europe‑first pilot project with Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte eG and Sopra Financial
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Dubai Completes Crypto Payment Pilot for Government Services
Dubai’s Department of Finance has successfully completed a pilot test enabling the settlement of digital assets in UAE dirhams for
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Uganda to Pilot CBDC Backed by Treasury Bonds and Mobile Access
Global Settlement Network (GSN) has partnered with Diacente Group to launch a $5.5 billion tokenized economy in Uganda’s Karamoja region.
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Coinbase funds New York pilot giving $12K in USDC to low-income residents
Key Takeaways GiveDirectly is administering a New York pilot that distributes $12,000 in stablecoins to low-income young adults, funded by
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SBI Group to pilot real-time tokenized deposit settlement using Partior Blockchain and DCJPY token
Key Takeaways SBI Group will conduct a real-time tokenized deposit settlement pilot with major international banks such as J.P. Morgan,
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