AllUnity, the joint venture between DWS and Deutsche Bank, is leveraging Chainlink CCIP to make its euro stablecoin interoperable across multiple chains.
The goal: seamless euro-denominated transfers across major DeFi ecosystems.

AllUnity secured a MiCA license from BaFin in July, clearing it to issue EURAU under the EU’s regulatory framework.
With DWS managing over €1 trillion in assets and Deutsche Bank holding $1.6 trillion on its balance sheet, AllUnity’s entry signals a serious push toward regulated tokenized finance in Europe.

AllUnity’s MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, EURAU, backed by Deutsche Bank and DWS, is expanding across blockchains using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).
The move connects EURAU to Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon and Solana, with plans to integrate the Canton Network — a ledger for institutional finance.

“AllUnity is establishing the core infrastructure for the next generation of tokenized finance across Europe,” said Chainlink Labs’ Fernando Vazquez.
EURAU is fully reserve-backed and designed for B2B payments, onchain settlement, and enterprise treasury operations.

The same data scientist who helped recover millions in crypto for the Australian Federal Police has now solved another wallet puzzle — this time unlocking AU$9 million in digital assets.
Investigators say the suspect refused to share his wallet keys, which carry a 10-year prison penalty if withheld.
It’s the second major recovery for the AFP’s digital forensics team, following a separate case that uncovered $3 million in hidden crypto.
Commissioner Krissy Barrett praised the work as a landmark for the AFP’s growing expertise in crypto asset recovery.

Australian Federal Police have cracked a coded cryptocurrency wallet containing AU$9 million ($5.9 million) — a breakthrough the commissioner called “miraculous work.”
The encrypted seed phrase was hidden among numbers and words found on a suspect’s phone.
A data scientist, dubbed the AFP’s “crypto safe cracker,” discovered that removing the first number from each sequence revealed the 24-word seed phrase.
The funds were seized by the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce and could be redistributed for crime prevention programs, pending court approval.

Reeve Collins, cofounder of Tether, believes AI agents and autonomous bots will make stablecoins more user-friendly across multiple blockchains.
He told Cointelegraph that future AI systems will manage wallets, transfers, and conversions automatically — handling the technical details behind the scenes.
“These tools will make interacting with different stablecoins effortless for users,” Collins said.
The vision aligns with a growing trend: using AI to abstract complexity in blockchain systems and improve usability for non-technical users.

In the future, users might not need to care what blockchain or token standard their stablecoins run on, says Mert Mumtaz, CEO of RPC provider Helius.
Mumtaz predicts that exchanges will abstract away all the complexity, showing only the underlying fiat currency — like USD or GBP — while performing all cross-chain swaps and conversions automatically in the background.
“Users will interact with stablecoins from any issuer without even realizing it,” he said.
The result: a simpler, chain-agnostic user experience that could finally make stablecoins feel as easy as traditional money apps.

Industry leaders say poor user experience is still one of crypto’s biggest barriers to mainstream use.
Between confusing token tickers, incompatible wallets, and slow, costly cross-chain bridges, using stablecoins can be a frustrating experience for everyday users.
Executives told Cointelegraph that until the crypto industry delivers Web2-level simplicity, mainstream adoption will remain out of reach.

The growing number of stablecoin tickers and token standards is fragmenting liquidity and making crypto harder to use, warns blockchain investigator ZachXBT.
He says cross-chain bridging issues, inconsistent exchange support, and gas fees in multiple tokens all make stablecoin transfers a technical nightmare.
“Imagine receiving a stablecoin your wallet doesn’t even list by default,” ZachXBT wrote. “Then you need gas in another token just to move it — and your exchange doesn’t even support it.”
The lack of seamless transfers, he added, continues to be a major roadblock for crypto adoption.

Decentralized social network Bluesky is preparing to roll out a “dislike” button to fine-tune content personalization and curb toxic interactions.
The feature will help the platform learn what users want to see less of, influencing both feed and reply rankings.
Other updates include improved toxic-reply detection, design tweaks, and a new system mapping “social neighborhoods” — showing users more replies from people they actually interact with.
Bluesky says the goal is to foster “fun, genuine, and respectful exchanges” as it races past 40 million users and seeks to differentiate itself from X and Threads.

With high-profile acquisitions and global expansion plans, Bending Spoons has become one of Europe’s most sought-after employers.
The Milan-based firm says it received more than 600,000 job applications in 2025, even after warning candidates that its environment is “demanding.”
New hires start in Milan before gaining flexibility to work from London, Madrid, Warsaw, or remotely.
The surge in interest follows news of the company’s AOL and Vimeo acquisitions and its fresh round of funding to fuel further growth.

Bending Spoons is on a buying tear. In the past two years, it’s snapped up Evernote, WeTransfer, Filmic, Meetup, StreamYard, Issuu, Brightcove, Harvest, and Komoot.
Next up: Vimeo (in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal) and AOL, both expected to close by year-end.
The company says AOL still has 30 million monthly users and remains a top-10 global email provider.
Backed by $2.8 billion in debt financing, Bending Spoons is building one of the most ambitious tech portfolios in Europe.

Before Bending Spoons became a decacorn, its founders ran Evertale, a Copenhagen startup behind the photo-sharing app Wink.
When that venture collapsed, the core team regrouped and began acquiring underperforming but promising apps instead of building new ones.
Their approach paid off: Bending Spoons now owns a roster of digital brands serving hundreds of millions and has backing from stars like Bradley Cooper, The Weeknd, and Andre Agassi.
CEO Luca Ferrari calls it a “forever portfolio” — a strategy that has reshaped Europe’s tech scene.

Few people can name it, but Bending Spoons runs a portfolio of apps used by more than a billion people worldwide.
Founded in 2012, the company specializes in acquiring and revamping well-known digital products — a strategy that’s turned Evernote, WeTransfer, and Filmic into renewed moneymakers.
Unlike typical private-equity buyers, Bending Spoons says it “aims to hold forever”, continuously improving its acquisitions instead of flipping them for profit.
The firm now employs about 500 people, mainly in Milan, and continues to expand quietly across Europe.

Bending Spoons’ four cofounders have officially joined the billionaire ranks, according to new Forbes estimates.
CEO Luca Ferrari now holds a stake worth roughly $1.4 billion, while fellow founders Matteo Danieli, Luca Querella, and Francesco Patarnello each hold about $1.3 billion.
The valuations follow a $270 million funding round backed by T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, and others, plus a $440 million secondary share sale.
The Milan-based tech group has stayed low-profile despite powering some of the internet’s best-known brands — and now it’s worth more than $10 billion.

From Europe to the U.S., digital privacy is once again in the spotlight.
The EU recently backed away from its controversial Chat Control bill, while Meta confirmed it’s training new AI models using European user data — though private messages remain off-limits.
Experts say this wave of surveillance anxiety is fueling demand for “programmable privacy” — systems that protect user data by default but remain auditable.
“Privacy isn’t just for people with something to hide,” said Psy Protocol CEO Carter Feldman. “It’s a fundamental part of usability and trust in the digital age.”

Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are on a tear.
Zcash (ZEC) has surged over 375% in October, flipping Monero (XMR) to become the largest privacy coin by market cap.
The rally comes as governments debate surveillance policies like the EU’s “Chat Control” proposal, and as tech giants expand AI training on user data.
Zcash’s rise also reflects growing adoption of its “shielded” transactions, which hide sender, receiver, and amount using zk-SNARKs technology.
Roughly 30% of ZEC’s supply is now shielded — the highest level ever recorded.

The ongoing U.S. government shutdown is entering its fifth week, nearing a record length, as Republicans and Democrats remain gridlocked on spending.
President Trump has urged the GOP to “go nuclear” by ending the Senate filibuster to break the stalemate.
The prolonged shutdown could delay crypto ETF approvals and progress on the CLARITY Act, a bill aimed at defining digital asset regulation.
Meanwhile, uncertainty is weighing on markets — even as privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are quietly rallying.

The U.S. Federal Reserve just delivered another quarter-point rate cut, bringing rates to their lowest in three years.
Traders now see a 63% chance of another cut at the Dec. 10 meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
Rate cuts tend to boost risk assets like Bitcoin, as cheaper borrowing often drives investors toward alternatives to traditional markets.
Adding to the optimism, the Fed announced it will halt quantitative tightening (QT) on Dec. 1 — a move that could inject more liquidity into the system.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Thursday in South Korea, signaling a potential easing of trade tensions.
Trump called the talks “amazing,” saying he expects a trade deal soon.
In exchange for tariff cuts, Beijing reportedly agreed to crack down on fentanyl, resume U.S. soybean imports, and ease rare earth export limits.
Markets responded positively, though experts caution it’s only a “pause” in the ongoing trade war.
Crypto traders are watching closely — previous tariff threats were blamed for a $19 billion crypto market crash in October.

Bitcoin has officially entered its most profitable month on record — November, which has averaged a 42.5% gain since 2013, according to CoinGlass data.
If history repeats, that could push BTC past $160,000 this month.
However, analysts warn that macro factors — from Fed rate cuts to U.S.-China trade talks — could shape whether this rally actually plays out.
“Seasonal charts matter, but they’re only part of the story,” said Markus Thielen of 10x Research.