Now Playing
SEC at Two Commissioners, ECB Digital Euro Trials & Chainlink CCIP 2.0 Live
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
US crypto regulation enters a leadership vacuum as the SEC drops to two commissioners and the CFTC runs on one, while Chainlink CCIP 2.0 goes live with Fidelity and Deutsche Börse and the ECB opens digital euro innovation trials. Today's briefing covers five major signals shaping global fintech and banking.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
The SEC now operates with two commissioners. Two out of five.
That vacuum makes the SEC's most recent move more interesting, not less. On September twenty-eighth, the agency revised its guidance on DeFi token buybacks.
Away from the regulatory uncertainty, institutional infrastructure is moving forward with or without clear rules. Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 launched in production this week, backed by Fidelity, ANZ, Deutsche Börse, and SBI.
The ECB's trajectory is also shifting from concept to infrastructure. The bank is calling on companies to test digital euro applications in a structured window running January through June of twenty twenty-seven.
In Japan, SBI, Mesh, and Money Forward are forming a joint venture targeting Q4 of twenty twenty-six for digital asset payments infrastructure. The timing aligns with Japan's move to reclassify crypto as a financial instrument under its Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, with most provisions taking effect in twenty twenty-seven.
The thread running through all of this is the gap between infrastructure moving forward and oversight running thin. Chainlink is live.
Chapter summary auto-generated from the verified script. Listen to the full episode for the complete content.