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Digital Euro Beta, Korea's Crypto Law & Bitcoin Bank Adoption Index
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The ECB names 36 providers for its digital euro pilot as South Korea races to classify crypto as national property by 2027 — and institutional Bitcoin adoption hits 32%. Today's briefing covers the infrastructure moves reshaping global digital finance.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
South Korea is rewriting a seventy-six-year-old law to classify cryptocurrency as national property, and it's setting a hard deadline of 2027 to do it. That's not a policy proposal.
The real test here is sequencing. The government bond tokenization pilot depends on the Bank of Korea getting its CBDC infrastructure ready first.
On the other side of the globe, the European Central Bank has moved its digital euro project from general specifications to a named list of participants. Thirty-six payment service providers, including Stripe and Revolut, have been selected for a twelve-month beta pilot launching in late 2027.
Flex Global raised seventy million dollars in a Series C led by Halo Fund to scale its stablecoin-powered private banking model across more than one hundred countries. The company is now running ten billion dollars in annualized payment volume with a nine-figure revenue run rate.
On institutional Bitcoin adoption, a Strategy Inc. index now puts major bank adoption at an average of thirty-two percent. Fidelity leads at seventy-one percent.
Two shorter items worth flagging. Forty-five percent of financial firms faced AI-powered attacks in 2025.
The real watchpoints coming out of today's briefing are tight. First, Bank of Korea CBDC infrastructure readiness.
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