What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Author: Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Since 2018, the editorial team at Crypto Valley Journal has been reporting from Zug - the heart of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley - on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and regulatory developments in digital assets. Behind the publication’s collective editorial voice is a team of writers with backgrounds in financial markets, law, and technology.
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The US banking regulator OCC grants Circle National Trust final approval to operate as a federal trust bank for digital assets.
JPMorgan ranks Strategy’s sales below the bigger Bitcoin risk and names tokenization beyond public chains as the real threat.
17 banks across six continents are piloting cross-border payments with tokenized deposits on the Swift Blockchain Ledger 24/7.
AscendEX halted operations on 1 July over lost liquidity and a missing MiCA licence; users get no guarantee of a full payout.
Germany’s federal cabinet plans to scrap the one-year Bitcoin holding period and tax private crypto gains at 26.375% regardless of duration.
India’s central bank keeps pushing for a crypto ban, while the tax authority flags billions in untaxed gains among 39 million investors.
An arbitrator awards Kraken parent Payward USD 22 million against Mazars, a consequence of the Operation Choke Point 2.0 banking campaign.
Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is stuck in a turf war between the Treasury and Commerce departments, while its legal basis is missing.
Russia’s Sberbank plans a crypto wallet in its apps by December 2026, once the digital asset law takes effect in September.
Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin for 216 million USD to finance its preferred dividends for STRC & Co. – the largest sale to date.
German savings and cooperative banks bring crypto trading for retail customers directly into the banking app, under BaFin MiCAR approval.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
PMorgan warns of Strategy’s new Bitcoin sales policy: the bank sees an avoidable two-way risk for the entire Bitcoin market.
Ethereum Institutional launches as a non-profit from Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin, a new point of contact for banks and asset managers.
Seven Swiss crypto service providers hold a MiCA CASP authorization. AMINA was the world’s first; three followed via Liechtenstein.
Most crypto cards hide who issues them. After mapping the licensed issuers, here is why Switzerland’s self-issuing model reads differently.
18 percent hold crypto assets in Switzerland, an IFZ and LUKB study shows. Banks see potential for up to 1 million advisory clients.
