Digital Asset Holdings raised $355M in a funding round led by a16z Crypto, with participation from Citadel, Apollo, HSBC, and others. The Canton Network has processed $6 trillion in tokenized issuance.
EthCC 2026 launched The Agora by Kaiko, drawing over 60 speakers and 600 TradFi professionals. Bloomberg, BNP Paribas, Euroclear, and others appear on the official agenda for the first time, debating Ethereum’s market structure under MiCA.
European policymakers are split over how to respond to a stablecoin market where nearly 98% of the region’s supply is tied to the US dollar, raising concerns over euro influence and monetary autonomy.
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to deliver a special address at Paris Blockchain Week on April 15–16, with euro stablecoins, the digital euro and Europe’s regulatory agenda on the program.
ECB President Christine Lagarde said euro-denominated stablecoins pose run risk and could weaken monetary policy transmission, arguing tokenized bank deposits are a safer onchain alternative.
Swift completed an interoperability trial with Chainlink that showed tokenized bond transactions can move across blockchains and traditional financial systems using ISO 20022 messaging, AI-validated data, and integrated identity and compliance tools.
Spark migrated roughly $150 million in liquidity to Uniswap v4, creating a shared Stablecoin FX Layer that pools USDS, USDT, and PYUSD. UNI jumped 1.3% while SPK slipped 2.5%. The move targets fragmented stablecoin liquidity.
A consortium of twelve European banks, Qivalis, plans to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin in the second half of 2026 using Fireblocks infrastructure, fully compliant with the EU's MiCA framework. The initiative targets the gap in regulated euro stablecoin options amid a dollar-dominated stablecoin market, aiming at institutional use cases including cross-border settlement, trade finance, and securities settlement.
