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Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are among 21 institutions planning a stablecoin venture. The project will start with a US dollar stablecoin before expanding to other G7 currencies, with the euro next.
Bitfinex Securities listed five tokenized equity-backed notes linked to Strategy and Metaplanet. Issued through Luxembourg’s ORO II fund, the notes trade against dollars, USDT and Bitcoin for eligible non-US investors.
Ireland’s planned tax-advantaged state savings accounts will exclude crypto assets. The scheme, opening next year, will target about $203 billion in deposits and allow shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products.
Circle’s cirBTC held 40 BTC and was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, but remained thousands of times smaller than WBTC and cbBTC. Arc is set to become the product’s next distribution test.
Crypto executives agree AI agents will need to transact with one another, but they disagree on the solution. CoinDesk reports the eventual machine-payment currency could be a stablecoin—or an asset that has not yet been invented.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Bitcoin could overtake gold in the next bull run, while noting that gold is currently worth about 10 times more. He also described any national shift toward Bitcoin as a years-long process.
CoinDesk’s Aug. 27 briefing says bitcoin experts favor a defined-risk strategy for a possible next move higher. The supplied material does not specify the instruments, terms, price target or risk limits involved.
Bitfinex Securities has raised $50 million and is preparing a security linked to a Luxembourg-based platform holding a reported $1.6 billion stockpile of high-purity nickel wire, CoinDesk reports.
