Results of the day, November 12

Results of the day, November 12

💳 Payments and Stablecoins

* Visa launched a pilot service, which allows companies to send payments in stablecoins to crypto wallets from fiat accounts.
* JPMorgan launched JPMCoin — a token which allows users to send and receive money through a public blockchain, ensuring processing of payments in a matter of seconds and round the clock.
* Circle, the issuer of USDC, plans to launch a native coin for its own blockchain ARC.
* Kyrgyzstan issued 50,140,738 USDKG, backed by gold and tied to the US dollar with a face value of $1 per unit.

🪙 Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

* Legendary investor Peter Thiel stated that Bitcoin is фактически “appropriated” by large financial institutions and the state.
* *(*прим.: *”фактически” is left untranslated as its meaning (“essentially,” “de facto”) is partially carried by the quotes around “appropriated”)*
* The head of Marathon Digital stated that profit from mining BTC is falling due to the rise in prices for electricity and the strengthening of competition.
* In Taiwan, they will study the use of Bitcoin as a strategic asset and will launch a pilot storage of BTC from confiscated funds.
* In Miami (USA), the fifth in a row statue of Satoshi Nakamoto was installed.

🏛 Regulation and Central Banks

* The Central Bank of the Russian Federation will allow funds to invest in crypto derivatives in 2026.
* The Central Bank of the UAE conducted the first transaction with a digital dirham (CBDC) within the framework of a pilot project.
* SWIFT is completing the transition to the ISO 20022 standard, called to increase the speed and quality of international payments.
* In the SEC, they are considering the possibility of creating exceptions for tokens from the category of securities.

🔗 Blockchain and Technologies

* Research showed that 16 large blockchains already have built-in mechanisms for the freezing of funds, and another 19 can add them almost without changes.

🏢 Companies and Investments

* The General Director of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, stated that the company strives to become a full-fledged fintech provider, using blockchain and the coin XRP for international settlements.
* CoinDesk published the annual Exchange Benchmark 2025, in which Binance took first place among centralized exchanges and received the highest rating AA.
* The Japanese giant SoftBank sold all of its shares of NVIDIA for the sum of $5.83 billion, in order to finance investments in OpenAI.