Russia uses digital rubles to pay salaries for first time
Russia’s Finance Ministry has paid some employees in digital rubles for the first time, moving the central bank digital currency into regular government payroll on Oct. 1. Summary Russia’s Fi
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Russia’s Finance Ministry has paid some employees in digital rubles for the first time, moving the central bank digital currency into regular government payroll on Oct. 1. Summary Russia’s Fi
India’s central bank has renewed its cautious position on cryptocurrencies while continuing to support tokenization, distributed ledgers and central bank digital currency projects. Summary RB
Visa has reported nearly 200% year-over-year growth in payment volume across its stablecoin-linked card programs, with more than 160 consumer and business programs operating worldwide. Summar
OpenPayd has targeted completion of its Titan Acquisition Corp. merger by the end of 2026 as the stablecoin payments infrastructure firm prepares for a Nasdaq listing and a U.S. customer laun
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Japan has expanded its sanctions on Russia, placing the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex and 33 Russian entities on its asset freeze list. The new measures, announced on October 2, also targe
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TLDR: Japan added 33 entities and nine individuals, including Garantex, to its Russia asset freeze list on October 2. Garantex was sanctioned earlier by the United States and the European Uni