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Kraken's parent Payward is investing billions to become financial infrastructure — payments, custody and banking — not just a crypto exchange.

THORChain declined to block the Bitget hacker's transactions, reigniting the debate over whether decentralised protocols should police criminal funds.

The ECB has set its sights on a possible 2029 launch for the digital euro, moving Europe's retail CBDC from debate toward a concrete timeline — if legislators agree.

The European Central Bank is deploying 'Pontes' to settle tokenised assets in central-bank money, a foundational step for regulated on-chain finance in the eurozone.

Aave's V4 upgrade on Coinbase's Base network now accepts Coinbase's tokenised stocks as collateral, blurring the line between DeFi lending and traditional equities.

Coinbase's tokenised stocks topped $1B in volume on its Base network within the first month, an early sign that on-chain equities may be more than a novelty.

Franklin Templeton's tokenised money-market fund can now be used as collateral on Bybit, a concrete example of traditional finance and crypto exchanges wiring themselves together.

Vitalik Buterin has outlined a 2030 vision for Ethereum that pushes it beyond traditional blockchain architecture.

Accor has rolled out ALL Concierge at scale — a conversational AI travel companion, available in 11 languages, that assists guests across the whole journey.

France's Alliance Digitale has reopened its Privacy Protection - Pact, a GDPR data-protection label, updating it for 2026 as privacy scrutiny intensifies.

A new study finds 48% of French 13-18 year-olds have used AI to make a purchase directly — a sign agentic shopping is arriving faster than brands expect.

The AACC, France's agency association, has published 10 commitments for responsible AI use in agencies, pushing transparency and human oversight.

Measurement firm Lifesight has open-sourced Horizon, its AI marketing forecasting engine, betting that transparency wins trust in a crowded measurement market.

Ingenuity's Pulse report finds just one in three marketers are satisfied with martech returns, warning the 'value gap' now threatens agency retention.

German strategist Liane Siebenhaar has gone independent with 'Forderland,' an AI-powered brand-intelligence consultancy that tracks how brands appear across LLMs, social and news.

ARD Media has unveiled 'Audionited,' bundling linear radio and digital audio into a single programmatic booking with one CPM — a structural simplification of German audio buying.

A Metricool 2026 study finds TikTok markedly cheaper than Meta for driving leads and traffic, yet 91% of advertisers still run Meta only — with France posting the strongest returns.

WARC's 'Health of Creativity' analysis finds TV's role as the lead channel in the world's top award-winning campaigns has fallen sharply over a decade.

Peloton has launched the $2,195 Tread Flex, its first foldable treadmill, with a Miley Cyrus-fronted campaign aimed at making the brand attainable again.

Ipsos's Global Trends 2026 finds personal optimism at its lowest since 2013 and a UK notably wary of AI — a pessimistic consumer mindset brands must plan around.