Japan’s central bank has pushed its digital yen pilot to 50,000 operations per second, but the country still hasn’t decided whether it actually wants a CBDC. With stablecoins and tokenized deposits gaining ground, the real question is whether a retail digital yen solves a problem people feel.
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India and Russia are weighing a CBDC-based settlement system for bilateral trade, aiming to cut friction and reliance on traditional banking rails. The idea has real potential, but sanctions, technical hurdles, and weak adoption could turn it into another polished government pilot that never quite lands.
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Russia’s digital ruble is moving from pilot to mandatory infrastructure, with large banks and major merchants required to support it starting 1 September 2026. Consumers won’t be forced to use it, but the state is clearly building its own payment rails.
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Trump is set to host the White House’s first crypto summit as Washington officially pivots toward a more pro-digital assets stance. The meeting could spotlight stablecoins, seized crypto, and the administration’s hard anti-CBDC line — but the real test is whether friendly rhetoric turns into actual policy.
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Chainlink is popping up in central-bank and tokenized-settlement pilots in Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia and mBridge-related work — a real sign of institutional interest, but still mostly testing, not live monetary plumbing. The big story is interoperability, not moon-boy hype.
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CLARITY has spent a year stuck in the Senate while Congress keeps favoring narrower crypto bills that are easier to pass and harder to fight over. GENIUS became law; market structure reform remains mired in politics, ethics fights, and Washington’s love of half-measures.
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The CLARITY Act is still moving through Congress, but Senate ethics drama, committee haggling, and a separate CBDC showdown could slow it down. The bill aims to finally set real crypto market rules — if Washington can stop turning it into a political dumpster fire.
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The U.S. has given stablecoins their first federal rulebook with the GENIUS Act, setting 1:1 reserve backing and monthly disclosures. It’s a win for compliant issuers, but the CBDC fight is still unsettled — not a clean ban, just a political mess in progress.
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Trump is using a housing bill to pressure the Senate on voting rules, while anti-CBDC language keeps crypto policy in the mix. The result: a messy Washington standoff where housing, election fights, and digital money politics collide.
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The U.S. is steering toward regulated private stablecoins as its digital dollar layer while blocking a retail Fed CBDC, a move that favors USDC and USDT but keeps privacy, control, and reserve-risk debates very much alive.
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