Alex Harutunian

The island nation moved to a pilot phase on its CBDC project together with FinTech firm Soramitsu. Bokolo Cash, the new digital currency, is intended to drive technological advancement and economic growth.

Cambodia's CBDC-like Bakong payment system will allow users to access Alipay+ merchants and vice versa.

The last three months of Tether's operations added nothing to its balance sheet, while declared profits were invested in other projects.

The Bitcoin L2 developers have released the alpha version of the Taproot Asset protocol, which allows the building of stablecoins on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.

Oman’s investment is expected to help the country diversify its economy and put the nation on the world's crypto map

Solomon Islands enters CBDC trials with the help of the Government of Japan. The project may be replicated for other island states.

The Australian Central Bank Digital Currency Pilot was focused on exploring potential use cases with an aim to define the 'public policy rationale' for it. Four key themes were identified.

Crypto custodian holding hundreds of millions of clients' digital assets goes bankrupt as a result of crypto key mismanagement. As often happens in the crypto world, the story may continue to develop.