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LATEST: 🇩🇪 Germany’s 50M customer Sparkassen network began rolling out crypto trading through its banking app, letting customers buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Polygon.

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LATEST: 🇩🇪 Germany's finance ministry has drafted a proposed plan to tax crypto profits acquired after Jan 2027 at a flat 25% starting 2028, per Die Welt.

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LATEST: 🇩🇪 NVIDIA has committed nearly $10B for European companies, universities, and research institutions after signing an industrial AI declaration with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin.

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LATEST: 🇩🇰 Denmark's central bank warns that wider use of foreign stablecoins could affect payments and monetary policy transmission at home.

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LATEST: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia slashed power supply to its Bitcoin-mining industry by three-quarters as reduced inflows into its hydroelectric dams strain the national grid.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 Circle urged the European Commission to change MiCA's reserve rules, saying mandatory bank deposits expose stablecoin issuers to bank credit and counterparty risks.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 ECB board member Piero Cipollone says the digital euro could give Europe "sovereignty" over payments, which currently depend on non-European third parties for essential services.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 ECB board member Piero Cipollone says the digital euro could see its first issuance in 2029 if EU legislative negotiations conclude by year-end, with a pilot starting in the second half of 2027.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel says the bank is weighing three ways to bring central bank money onchain, including issuing reserves directly on a programmable platform.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone says Europe's "resilience and monetary sovereignty" could weaken if other providers fill the gap left without a digital euro.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 ESMA has told national regulators to make crypto firms wind down exposure to non-MiCA-compliant stablecoins by Jan. 8, 2027, giving the industry a three-month window to comply.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 EU banking, insurance and securities regulators warn that advancing quantum computers could undermine the cryptography securing blockchain transactions and data.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 EU consumer authorities have opened coordinated actions against 10 video game companies over how in-game currencies are priced and sold in games including Minecraft and Candy Crush.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen says Europe is "well equipped" to handle rogue AI agents, pointing to the AI Act and brushing off critics who call the rules outdated, per Reuters.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart, and other industry groups have asked the EU to remove or raise the cap on its tokenization trial, calling the current limit too restrictive.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 Raiffeisen Bank International is partnering with Bitpanda to potentially bring crypto trading to its network of banks across 11 European markets that serve 18 million customers.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 Stand With Crypto EU says more than 50,000 Europeans wrote to the European Commission urging it to allow stablecoin rewards as the MiCA review consultation closed.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The EBA called for crypto lending, including access to DeFi protocols, to be brought under MiCA as the EU reviews the framework.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The ECB has invited e-commerce merchants to join a digital euro pilot planned for H2 2027, ahead of a possible first issuance in 2029.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The ECB is inviting fintechs and payment firms to test digital euro features, with 2027 workshops covering AI-enabled payments and machine-to-machine interactions.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The ECB is preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized public-sector securities, settling trades in central bank money via its new Pontes DLT system.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The ECB launched Pontes, letting institutions settle tokenized asset trades in central bank money instead of relying on stablecoins, with full rollout expected by 2028.

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The ECB plans to invest in tokenized securities settled through its new Pontes platform, marking the first time a major central bank will directly participate in blockchain-based financial markets as both investor and infrastructure provider.@cryptonwsuk 2 sources

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LATEST: 🇪🇺 The European Banking Authority has classified USDC as the first significant e-money token under MiCA, making it the only one of 45 EU-notified stablecoins to meet the threshold.

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