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.

Stripe is considering a takeover of PayPal - the deal would unite two stablecoin infrastructures and shake up the payments industry. News
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FinTech giant Stripe reintroduces crypto payments with USDC

Some of the world’s biggest companies use Stripe’s software. Now, the Irish-American FinTech’s offers an option for cryptocurrency payments. Initially, Stripe supports the USDC stablecoin on Ethereum, Solana and Polygon, with more to follow. Stripe has been experimenting with crypto payments since 2014. However, the then young startup concluded a few years later that Bitcoin was not ready for mass adoption. The fintech criticized the cryptocurrency’s high fees, long wait times, and unstable value. Meanwhile, blockchain technology has evolved. So-called stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar, enable stable payments on new blockchains at record speeds. Stripe…

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Projekt Helvetia III: SNB treibt digitale Zentralbankwährung (CBDC) voran Background

Project Helvetia III: SNB pushes digital Franc forward

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is moving forward with the Helvetia III pilot project, becoming the first central bank in the world to issue a tokenized central bank digital currency (CBDC) on a regulated third-party platform. The SNB has been extensively researching the development of a digital central bank currency (CBDC) and identified early on the privacy issues associated with a central registry of all financial transactions. As part of “Project Helvetia,” research has been underway since 2019 on how to settle securities transactions and cross-border payments using blockchain technology and a digital Swiss franc. Despite the potential benefits of…

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Ripple lanciert eigenen Stablecoin: das Ende für XRP? Background

Ripple launches own stablecoin: the end of XRP?

The US dollar stablecoin market is currently concentrated in the hands of two companies: Tether and Circle. Now, Ripple wants to enable blockchain payments with a dollar stablecoin via the XRP ledger. Is the company waving the white flag and admitting the failure of its own XRP cryptocurrency? Ripple was founded in 2012 as a crypto startup with the goal of creating a decentralized digital payment system. The company wanted to enable low-cost cross-border transactions and differentiate itself from Bitcoin by offering a more scalable solution. The foundation of this payment network was to be the XRP cryptocurrency, formerly known…

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SEC startet Kampagne, um Ether (ETH) als Wertpapier einzustufen News
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SEC starts campaign to classify Ether (ETH) as a security

Ethereum is the second largest decentralized blockchain network after Bitcoin. Since 2015, the native cryptocurrency Ether (ETH) is also being traded on various exchanges. However, this may not be so easy in the future. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to classify Ether as a security and has launched an aggressive campaign to do so. Last Wednesday, a disturbing headline made the rounds. The Ethereum Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, is under investigation by a government agency. It’s a confidential investigation with confidentiality obligations. Later, the financial magazine Fortune, citing inside sources, revealed that the SEC had launched…

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