Hello Observers! Borrowing from Gwen Stefani’s 2004 hit “Hollaback girl”, this week was B-A-N-A-N-A-S - bananas. Crypto prices began to fall last Sunday and went further downhill when markets opened on Monday. In two hours, BTC and ETH plummeted 10% and 18% respectively. The distress was largely due to

Offline digital euro and eSIM, low traction for digital rupee, e-CNY extends use cases, Brazil's DREX and Pix integration. Ripple and Open Eden in T-bill tokenization.

Hello Observers! It was a hot week, almost feverish. Following Trump’s speech at the 2024 Bitcoin conference in Nashville last Sunday, crypto Twitter and media, from inside and outside the United States, became more political and divided than ever before. Having a pro-crypto president in the United States, the

For all the key details of new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. CBDC Updates “Forget it. There will never be CBDC while I

Hello observers! This was a week of firsts for the crypto community and the world. Monday was the world’s hottest day on record, with the global average surface air temperature rising for the first time to 17.15 degrees Celsius. On Friday, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris

Happy Monday, Observers! Blue Screen (Of Death) Friday showed the world about the dangers of depending on centralized entities. A few small errors in the upgrade code of a Microsoft program were enough to cause a digital meltdown in millions of hospitals, airports, and services. While its consequences have been

A key figure involved in preparing legislation for the digital euro has been accused of stalling by rival politicians—and over in Russia, Vladimir Putin wants his country to "seize the moment" and embrace the digital ruble.

Beware of the fake news - disinformation experts warn. The web is flooded with incorrect information and conspiracy theories following the assassination attempt of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania this Saturday. With both left and right weaponizing the incident for political gain, information experts