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14th April: Blockchain DXB podcast🎙️
🟠 SEC - Crypto Task Force 4 Roundtables ⭕Israel CBDC ( Digital Shekel ) ⚫BlackRock $3.4B in crypto inflows in Q1 2025 ❗Paul Atkins new SEC chair
🟠The SEC’s Crypto Task Force will host four public roundtables on crypto regulation at its Washington D.C. headquarters, also streamed live on SEC.gov
April 11: Regulation for Crypto Trading
April 25: Key Considerations for Crypto Custody
May 12: Tokenization & Asset Movement Onchain
June 6: DeFi and the American Spirit
❗ Led by Commissioner Hester Peirce, the roundtables aim to explore regulatory challenges and solutions with industry experts. Official info here https://shorturl.at/R3v1l
🔴Digital Shekel
🔴 At KPMG’s Tel Aviv office, the “CBDC IL Forum” gathered several dozen attendees to hear insights from the Bank of Israel, academia, and KPMG. They presented findings from a study conducted with about 1,000 participants via the Roschink Institute, now published on the Bank of Israel’s website.
📊More than half of the respondents (51.57%) showed a high level of interest in using the digital shekel. 34% of the public expressed a very high level of interest, and 17% expressed medium-high interest. This finding indicates a high potential for the adoption of the digital shekel by the Israeli public. Official info via Bank of Israel here https://shorturl.at/uMAOg
⭕ How do CBDC compare with the Bitcoin & Open Blockchain?
- Opensource  ❌
- Permissionless ❌
- Borderless ❌
- Censorship Resistant ❌
- Neutral ❌
- Publicly verifiable ❌
- Can CBDC double-spend? ❌
💯Satoshi Nakamoto solved the Double Spend problem with Bitcoin whitepaper
🎙️Check out the Blockchain DXB episode for today we share our commentary on this
⚫ BlackRock reported $3.4B in digital asset inflows in Q1 2025, bringing total AUM in the category to $50.3B. This growth was fueled largely by demand for Bitcoin ETFs, including the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). iShares ETFs overall had a record-breaking quarter with $107B in inflows. The surge highlights the growing institutional and retail interest in crypto exposure through regulated investment vehicles.
🚨 Senate confirms President Trump’s pro-crypto SEC chair pick Paul Atkins! At the hearing, Atkins said the “top priority” of his tenure as chair would be to “provide a firm regulatory foundation for digital assets through a rational, coherent and principled approach.”
🚨 SEC Chair Paul Atkins has a long career in finance and aims to provide clear rules for the crypto industry. At the senate hearing Atkins said the “top priority” of his tenure as chair would be to “provide a firm regulatory foundation for digital assets through a rational, coherent and principled approach.” Info here https://shorturl.at/5gulW
🟠Two UAE news
⚡Dubai Space Centre uses AI to help with global disaster response
⚡Strategic Development Fund, QuantCube Technology to support AI economic intelligence in UAE
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