Let's start with a quick look back. How did Stokr come about, and where does it stand today? STOKR was founded in 2018 in Luxembourg. Our initial focus was on SME financing through digital securities issuances. Over time, our product-market fit shifted toward the Bitcoin ecosystem. A substantial
On May 12, US-based startup Anthropic (developer of the Claude LLM) published a notice leaving no room for ambiguity: any transfer of shares carried out without explicit board approval is void. Direct sales, beneficial interests, forward contracts, SPVs and tokenized securities. Nothing falls outside the scope. The timing is no
The Big Whale: The GENIUS Act passed with broad bipartisan support. The CLARITY Act is now entering committee markup. How do the two bills fit together? Dante Disparte: You can't think about the CLARITY Act without the GENIUS Act. A European observer would get this intuitively: with MiCA,
Shelved “Project Freedom”, launched by the U.S. Army to secure the safe passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, due to the refusal from Saudi Arabia to lend infrastructure to the U.S Army, rattled the market late last week, forcing Bitcoin to correct to $79k. However,
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has always warned shareholders: if push came to shove, the company might have to sell some of its Bitcoin to cover financial commitments. Until now, that scenario felt distant. Not anymore. Michael Saylor, the group's executive chairman, acknowledged on May 5 that paying dividends on
Coinhouse ticks a lot of operational boxes: MiCA authorisation in progress, over 50 employees, significant assets under management. Few French players show this level of maturity. How do you explain it? First, let's add some nuance. There are a few French players of meaningful size. Bitstack, for instance,
On May 1, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) released the CLARITY Act compromise on stablecoin remuneration. As expected, the text prohibits passive yield on stablecoins in order to protect bank deposits, while allowing rewards tied to actual usage. The two senators, from opposite sides of the aisle,
Where do CASPs stand in their authorization process? Who has already obtained their licence? What do the ESMA guidelines actually require? And what are the risks for those who are not ready? This webinar is an operational state of play hosted by The Big Whale and Homsy Legal: for CEOs,
Western Union announced during its Q1 2026 earnings call that USDPT, its Solana-based stablecoin, would go live next month. CEO Devin McGranahan didn't mince words: "The question is no longer whether Western Union will be active in digital assets, but how fast we can scale." What
The latest major DeFi hacks — the LayerZero bridge exploit on Kelp DAO ($293 million in rsETH drained on April 18) and the compromise of Drift Protocol's admin key ($285 million on April 1) — didn't just make headlines because of the dollar figures involved. The real shock
Before we begin, we'd like to address the Kelp hack over the weekend. It triggered a major liquidity crisis on Aave, with nearly $10 billion frozen. How did Morpho weather the episode? There was zero contagion on Morpho, and that's exactly the point. We built an
Two significant exploits, within three weeks of each other, have again exposed the fragility of DeFi infrastructure. On April 2, Solana-based perpetuals protocol Drift was drained of approximately $286 million in a suspected DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea )-linked attack, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The
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The IPO may be on ice, but the money keeps flowing. Deutsche Börse Group just acquired a strategic 1.5% stake in Kraken for $200 million. The deal comes only months after the platform shelved its plans to go public, caught off guard by a souring market. The agreed valuation
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It's the kind of launch that caught nearly the entire European digital asset ecosystem off guard. All of it, really. On Monday, French company Heuro SAS announced it had issued €600 million worth of its new HEURO stablecoin, with part of the reserve set to be invested in
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You've announced that HEURO has crossed the 600 million euro mark in circulating stablecoins. What does that figure mean relative to the existing market? Depending on estimates, there were between 400 and 700 million euros' worth of euro stablecoins in circulation before our issuance. With our additional
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The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), a panel of three prominent economists who advise the President of the United States, published a study on April 8 that seriously undermines the American banking lobby's stance on stablecoin yields. With the Senate committee vote on the CLARITY Act scheduled for
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Tell us about Dowsers. What exactly do you do? We do formal verification for on-chain finance. It's the highest level of software security that exists — and that's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact. To give you a concrete reference: the three automated metro
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Last Thursday, the IMF published its first major note of 2026 on tokenization, and the framing is deliberately institutional. Rather than treating the phenomenon as a technological upgrade to existing rails, the Fund positions it as a structural migration of trust: away from regulated intermediaries and toward shared infrastructure and
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The Big Whale: Google just published a research paper that is generating a lot of buzz in the crypto ecosystem. Can you explain in simple terms what it's about? Charles Guillemet: Google has introduced a new algorithm that, in theory, can break ECDSA, i.e. elliptic curve cryptography,
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This is a world first. French exchange Lise is preparing to carry out the first-ever initial public offering on a natively tokenised infrastructure. Scheduled for 9 April, the transaction involves ST Group, an industrial SME in the aerospace and defence sector based near Toulouse, which is targeting a raise of
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What is AllUnity's business model and what are your main sources of revenue? We are stablecoin issuers. AllUnity is a German electronic money institution, licensed by BaFin in Germany, fully compliant with the MiCA regulation. Our initial model, like that of all issuers, is built on interest generated
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Since January 2024 and the approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, the market has coalesced into a de facto duopoly. BlackRock’s IBIT on one side, now surpassing $50 billion in assets under management. Fidelity’s FBTC on the other, firmly established in second place.
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The Iranian crisis has served as an unexpected stress test for decentralized trading infrastructure — and the results deserve close attention from asset allocators. While traditional venues observed their usual opening hours, DeFi platforms operated without interruption, absorbing a wave of activity that had little to do with crypto itself. The
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Bitstack's Series A (15 million dollars) was completed last December. Why open the capital to the public so quickly? From the very beginning, every time we announced a major milestone, the same question came back from our clients: "Can we participate, and how?" This wasn'