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Backed by BBVA, BNP Paribas, and ING, Qivalis secured Dutch regulatory authorization to offer onchain euro settlement infrastructure. Qivalis, the consortium backed by 37 major European banks, will soon be able to issue euro-denominated electronic money tokens (EMTs), a regulated form of stablecoin. The Amsterdam-based company said that the Bank of the Netherlands (DNB) had granted it an electronic money institution license. Qivalis must still meet the remaining requirements under.

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Bitcoin briefly reached $84,000 before easing back, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 0.6% since midnight as traders waited for U.S. inflation data. Bitcoin BTC$83,212.45 was trading around $83,450 in the European morning after briefly spiking to $84,000 at 08:00 UTC, having bounced from a low of $80,970 on Tuesday. Altcoins struggled to follow, with the CoinDesk 80 falling 0.6% since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 20 added 0.2%, leaving close.

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Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index. Talk about options on the S&P 500 index, and you are discussing a beast of a market that trades trillions of dollars in notional volume every day. Crypto traders now appear to want to access it over a blockchain. Hypercall illustrates the demand. The options platform built on Hyperliquid,.

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A brief run at $84,000 faded within the hour as tech stocks stalled and the chip selloff rolled on. Traders are waiting on the September CPI print. A brief run at $84,000 faded within the hour as tech stocks stalled and the chip selloff rolled on. Traders are waiting on the September CPI print. A brief spike to $84,000 early Wednesday faded within the hour, leaving bitcoin down 0.5% at.

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Chainalysis CEO in France Francois Volpoet warned the proposed 31.4% tax on regulated stablecoins could push traders toward unmonitored offshore channels. France’s legislators introduced a new proposal to expand its 31.4% crypto capital gains tax to include trades involving European Union (EU)-regulated stablecoins, a move Chanalysis warns could drive investors toward stablecoins outside the bloc’s rules. The proposal is part of France's 2027 budget, which lawmakers began debating last week.

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The bank manages custody and settlement in-house via a closed-loop model, removing the need for separate crypto wallets. Standard Chartered (STAN) introduced a crypto trading service for affluent clients in the United Arab Emirates, allowing eligible investors to buy and sell bitcoin BTC$83,478.64 and ether ETH$2,517.68 through their existing bank accounts. The service will initially be available to clients classified as professional investors, and the London-based lender said it is.