The Major Blind Spot of CBDCs: The Korean White Paper Overlooks Privacy
South Korea Releases Its Unified Ledger Plan – And Overlooks Privacy. A Wake-Up Call for Central Banks Flying Blind.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:19 8 8
China: The Failure of Rebalancing – A Structural Risk for Global Capital Flows
Since 2013, Beijing has promised a pivot to domestic consumption. In 2026, Stephen Roach's (Project Syndicate) verdict is unequivocal: the rebalancing has failed. This structural misalignment weighs on global markets as a whole.
Jun 26, 2026 at 15:55 18 15
Heinrich Vogel
**Project Pangea: Chainlink and 47 Banks Test Stablecoin Settlement Between Europe and Korea**
A coalition of 47 Korean and European banks will use Chainlink to settle multimillion-dollar currency exchanges in near real-time-marking an industrial milestone in the tokenization of interbank payments.
Jun 23, 2026 at 21:44 5 5
Elena Fischer
Air Products cancels its clean energy project in Louisiana and takes a $2.9B charge: a warning signal for clean hydrogen
One of America's largest clean hydrogen projects is being scrapped. Air Products records up to $2.9 billion in pre-tax charges—a strong signal about the economic limits of high-cost energy transition.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:47 6 8
Lucia Ferraz
Lawsuit Against Eagan (Minnesota) Data Center Moratorium: The Legal Front of the AI Battle Opens
A real estate developer is suing the city of Eagan (Minnesota) to lift its moratorium on AI data centers. A new legal front that complicates the deployment of hyperscalers, while a 900-acre project is announced in Iowa.
Jun 29, 2026 at 20:49 10 12
Arjun Mehta
Goldfinch Finance Shuts Down Its Prime Protocol: $100M in DeFi Loans, Defaults, and the End of a Chapter
The Goldfinch community has voted to shut down Prime, its institutional on-chain lending arm. A post-mortem on the limits of uncollateralized DeFi credit.
Jun 23, 2026 at 21:46 12 5
