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View More NewsIn brief EthSystems launched Tuesday to build “confidential systems for institutional Ethereum,” founded by the team that ran the Ethereum Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force. It is the third organization to spin out of the Foundation this summer, and the first for-profit one, backed by Ethereum treasury firms Bitmine and Sharplink and co-founder Joe Lubin. The firm argues that institutions won’t move stablecoins, tokenized assets, and settlement onto a public ledger until they can hide trade details, positions, and client identities. The group that spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy work has spun out to start…
The European Central Bank is moving the digital euro from planning into testing, with dozens of payment companies joining the next stage of the project.The ECB selected 36 payment service providers (PSPs) to participate in a digital euro pilot, according to an official announcement published Tuesday.The list of selected PSPs includes fintechs Stripe and Revolut alongside traditional banks including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit and BPCE. Revolut has recently adjusted some cryptocurrency services for EU users by phasing out support for Tether USDt.The pilot comes as governments take different approaches to digital currencies. While Europe is expanding testing of its proposed central…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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EFF welcomes our new Executive Director Nicole Ozer today! Nicole is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech who…
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