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The National Bank has approved bitcoin, ether, solana and 23 other digital assets for use by crypto banks that will offer deposits, loans, staking and token issuance under direct central bank supervision.
Brussels published a policy paper framing distributed ledger technology as the foundation of an 'internet of value' and confirmed that Pontes, the Eurosystem's DLT settlement platform, will go live in the third quarter of 2026 — making Europe the first major jurisdiction to offer central bank-settled tokenised asset trading.
The Bank of Russia has proposed mandatory KYC checks for all cryptocurrency transactions on domestic platforms, with a July deadline for legislation that would also require citizens to declare offshore holdings to the Federal Tax Service.
