UBS and six other Swiss lenders launch a sandbox to test Swiss franc stablecoin use cases, with Swiss Stablecoin AG providing issuance infrastructure. Trials run through 2026 and are open to additional participants.
On the 16th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, ZOOMEX launches Pizza Week to push crypto from speculation to everyday utility, featuring ZoomCard, ZoomexStocks, and a zero-cost trading competition.
Lugano has launched the second phase of Plan ₿ with Tether, targeting blockchain infrastructure, digital identity, decentralized AI and resilient city services, backed by up to CHF 5 million over five years.
Amundi and Spiko have launched SAFO, a tokenized fund with 24/7 liquidity, near-instant settlement, and Chainlink integration for on-chain NAV recording and cross-chain transfers.
Ledger said it has expanded support for Celo by integrating Celo’s CIP-64 fee abstraction feature into Ledger Live. With the update, users can pay onchain gas fees with 18 Celo-native assets instead of relying only on CELO. The supported assets are USDT, USDC, USDm, EURm, GBPm, JPYm, CADm, AUDm, CHFm, BRLm, NGNm, PHPm, COPm, KESm, ZARm, XOFm, GHSm and WETH. Celo introduced CIP-64 in the Gingerbread hard fork in July 2023, allowing approved ERC-20 tokens to be used directly for transaction fees. According to official disclosure, nearly half of transactions on Celo are now settling fees with dollar stablecoins rather than CELO. Ledger had previously added support in Ledger Live in December 2025 for sending, receiving and swapping CELO and Celo-native stablecoins.
Chiasso will begin accepting bitcoin for tax payments from January 2018, with a pilot cap of 250 Swiss francs per payment, as the municipality pushes to build its own crypto hub identity in Switzerland.
Chiasso will begin accepting bitcoin for tax payments from January 2018, initially capped at 250 Swiss francs, as it seeks to build its profile as a crypto hub and compete with Zug.
Chiasso, Switzerland announced it will accept bitcoin for tax payments up to 250 CHF from January 2018, aiming to lure crypto startups and rival Zug's Crypto Valley.
