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The European Central Bank (ECB) is moving closer to a pilot for a digital euro, with Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone outlining plans to begin selecting payment service providers (PSPs) in early 2026, ahead of a 12-month test scheduled for the second half of 2027.Cipollone on Wednesday held an executive committee meeting of the Italian Banking Association. He said the pilot would involve a limited number of payment service providers, merchants and Eurosystem staff. Selection of participating providers is expected to start in the first quarter of 2026.Cipollone said the digital euro will be designed to ensure it protects European…

India just made its biggest bet yet on AI sovereignty. At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the country unveiled partnerships with NVIDIA to deploy over 20,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across multiple data centers—the hardware backbone for what officials are calling the IndiaAI Mission.The $1 billion government initiative, approved in March 2024, aims to transform India from an AI consumer into a producer. With domestic AI market projections ranging from $27.7 billion to $131 billion by 2032 depending on the estimate, the stakes couldn’t be higher.The Hardware PlayThree cloud providers are leading the infrastructure buildout. Yotta is constructing what…

Elemental Royalty Corporation (ELE) is now offering shareholders something no other public gold company has before: the option to receive dividends in blockchain-based tokens backed by gold.In a move announced Tuesday, the Canada-based royalty company said it will distribute shareholder returns using stablecoin issuer Tether’s tokenized gold, Tether Gold (XAUT).Shareholders choosing this route will receive their dividends in XAUT rather than fiat money, providing exposure directly tied to the price of gold with the added flexibility of digital settlement.This marks the first time a publicly listed gold company has made such an offer, according to the press release. The move…

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings is moving to deepen its presence in the crypto sector, announcing plans to take a controlling position in Singapore-based exchange Coinhako.In a Friday announcement, the Tokyo-listed firm said its wholly owned subsidiary, SBI Ventures Asset, has signed a letter of intent with Coinhako’s parent company, Holdbuild, to inject capital into the business and purchase shares from existing investors. If completed, the transaction would give SBI Holdings a majority stake and make Coinhako a consolidated subsidiary, subject to regulatory approval.“Bringing Coinhako into the SBI Group as a consolidated subsidiary is not merely an investment in a…

VeChain has rolled out comprehensive documentation for StarGate, its staking platform that went live in July 2025 as part of the Hayabusa phase of the VeChain Renaissance. The system replaces the legacy node structure with an NFT-based framework that opens staking to any holder with at least 10,000 VET—roughly $82 at current prices.The timing matters. Legacy X Node and Economic Node holders face a hard deadline: March 15, 2026. After that date, the old rewards system shuts down permanently.How the New System WorksVeChainThor runs on Delegated Proof-of-Stake with 101 validators producing blocks. Most users won’t run validator nodes—they’ll stake VET,…

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) granted a crypto license to Victory Fintech (VDX), an affiliate entity of publicly listed financial services firm Victory Securities (8540).Victory won permission to operate a digital asset trading platform on Friday, according to the SFC’s registry of licensed crypto firms, the first addition since June 17 last year.Hong Kong introduced its current regime for the regulation of companies providing crypto services in 2023, with Hashkey Exchange and OSL Digital Securities the first two parties to receive approval. There are now 12 approved platforms on the registry, including New York Stock Exchange-listed Bullish (BLSH),…

Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary has won a multi-million-dollar defamation lawsuit against crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, also known as “Bitboy.”Miami federal judge Beth Bloom on Friday ordered Armstrong to pay almost $2.83 million in damages to O’Leary over a series of social media posts accusing the Shark Tank star of being a murderer.O’Leary and his wife, Linda, were in a boating accident in 2019 that resulted in two deaths when their boat struck another. Armstrong accused O’Leary of murder in multiple X posts in March 2025 and claimed he paid millions to cover up the incident. Kevin O’Leary, pictured…

AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $132-135 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $125-140 range• Bullish breakout level: $135.18 • Critical support: $122.64 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave While specific analyst predictions are limited for the current period, on-chain data from major platforms suggests mixed sentiment around AAVE’s current price action. According to technical data from exchanges, the token is experiencing consolidation after recent volatility, with trading volume remaining steady at approximately $14.9 million over the past 24 hours. Market data indicates that institutional interest in DeFi protocols like Aave continues to drive longer-term adoption, though…

NEW YORK — While BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) is among the most successful product launches in Wall Street history, the crypto market’s growing reliance on leverage could be doing long-term damage to bitcoin’s BTC$69,020.05 institutional appeal, according to Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock.During a conversation with Anthony Pompliano and investor Dan Tapiero at the Bitcoin Investor Week conference in New York on Thursday, Mitchnick said that while bitcoin’s fundamentals remain strong, excessive speculation — particularly on leveraged derivatives platforms — is introducing instability that threatens the asset’s positioning as a serious portfolio hedge.“These days where you…

AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $133-135 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $135-$145 range• Bullish breakout level: $139.66 • Critical support: $116.96 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave While specific analyst predictions from major KOLs are limited in recent data, earlier forecasts from January 2026 provide context for current price action. Caroline Bishop projected an AAVE price prediction targeting the $190-$195 range by February 2026, citing oversold RSI recovery and analyst targets up to $213. However, with AAVE currently trading at $127.75, this bullish scenario has not materialized. Joerg Hiller’s analysis suggested AAVE could rally 18-25%…