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@SebVentures They'll join for the Summer Series, too. You'll have plenty of time to discuss🫡

Same question. Couldn’t find how to have easily a wallet last time i tried. Also happy to learn Canton if someone using it is in Cannes this week.

🔴 EXCLUSIVE @block_stories - Crédit Agricole, France’s second-largest banking group, is preparing to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin👇 According to Blockstories’ information, Crédit Agricole, Europe’s second-largest banking group with €2.4 trillion in assets, is working on the launch of a MiCA-compliant euro-denominated stablecoin. The project is still in the structuring phase, but people familiar with the matter told Blockstories a launch is expected in the coming months. • In its initial phase, the stablecoin will target intra-group liquidity, enabling faster cash circulation across the group's subsidiaries, regional banks, and clients. • The issuing entity has not yet been formally confirmed, but sources point toward CACEIS, the group’s custody arm, which already holds a MiCA license and is working on the rollout of a crypto offering. Crédit Agricole would become the fourth European bank to enter stablecoin issuance, following Société Générale (via SG-FORGE), Banking Circle, and ODDO BHF. Twelve more, including BNP Paribas, BBVA, and UniCredit, have joined Qivalis, a consortium aiming to issue its own euro stablecoin in the second half of this year. ⏩ Accelerated digital assets roadmap • As recently as last year, Crédit Agricole had no formal stablecoin strategy. That changed in October, when the group internally decided to enter the tokenized cash race. A first public signal followed in February, when Crédit Agricole joined the FARO consortium alongside Citi, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and BNP Paribas, which aims to develop reserve-backed digital money for public blockchains. • In late June, its subsidiary CACEIS became the first credit institution in France to obtain a MiCA license and is currently rolling out its crypto offering. According to the banking group’s 2025–2028 strategic plan, the subsidiary aims to “quadruple the volume of digital assets under custody within three years.” • Its asset manager, Amundi, the largest in Europe, deployed tokenized money market fund units on Ethereum in November, and also launched, together with the startup Spiko, a tokenized fund for global treasury and collateral management (SAFO). • According to our information, Crédit Agricole is also involved in discussions with other French banks, including BNP Paribas, to launch a tokenized deposit system. At Blockstories, we’ll be following this closely in our Institutional Briefing, our weekly newsletter for banks and asset managers, read by more than 15,000 professionals and published every Thursday. 👉 To subscribe, link in the first comment.

@itsolelehmann beautiful reflections

everyone told me having a kid would slow me down but my son is 9 months old now and i feel like my life just started this is my first time reflecting on it publicly. here's everything i've learned so far: 1. everything before feels like a prequel of a movie. like i was living in a draft version of my own life and didn't know it 2. my bullshit detector went through the roof. if something doesn't get me closer to where i want to be or it cuts into time with my son, i just don't do it. zero hesitation 3. i used to spend so much time circling around my own thoughts. overthinking, optimizing, generally self-obsessed. having a kid quietly turns that off. people say you lose yourself when you have a kid. i think that's actually the point 4. being present becomes easy. with a kid you have to be. you can't get sucked into your phone. just sitting on the floor playing and laughing is honestly like a spiritual practice 5. your relationship with your parents changes overnight. you see them as equals for the first time. you realize they were your age or younger doing the exact same thing. suddenly you understand how much they sacrificed and any bad blood just gets a new reference point 6. watching my girlfriend become a mother is one of the most beautiful things i've seen. she wanted this earlier than me. now i feel like a complete idiot for ever doubting it 7. birth and postpartum were scary. she dealt with hormonal depression and it took a while to recover. she's the most upbeat person i know so seeing her like that was rough. my respect for what women go through changed completely 8. i miss one-on-one time with my girlfriend. that's been the hardest part. i sometimes miss the old life. but i wouldn't go back. i would have just kept living the same way forever 9. some friendships just stop working. having a kid makes lifestyle mismatches obvious fast. you only see it once you're in it 10. having a child completely changed why i use AI. it's way more about having time to live and be with my son than about maxing productivity so i can do more. the whole equation flipped 11. building my life the way i did is paying off now. working from home, being self-employed, being able to afford help with cleaning and meals. all of that eats your time like crazy once you have a kid. and i get to see my son multiple times during my workday. just pick him up, play a little, eat together. those moments make a huge difference 12. every time i step into more responsibility it gives me more purpose. running a company, employing people, being a parent. your capacity for what you think you can handle just grows 13. nobody prepares you for how 24/7 it is. it just doesn't stop. it trains your mental capacity in a way nothing else does 14. your motivation for everything shifts. health, fitness, work. stuff that used to annoy me i just do now because i know who i'm doing it for 15. one fear i carry: that i'm spending too much time working on something that won't matter and trading away time with my son. he doesn't care how much money i make 16. everyone suddenly has an opinion on how you should raise your kid. you have to know your values and hold them 17. you start understanding what's actually good for humans. clean food, nature, less screens. for a child you really want all of that to be true. it changes how you think about where and how to live 18. the love is 10 orders of magnitude more than anything i've ever felt. some biological switch flips and you can't understand it until it happens to you. i'd heard people talk about it my whole life but nothing prepares you 19. sometimes in the evening when he's asleep i look at pictures from that day and just feel so happy. and every time i realize how much is still ahead. he can't even talk yet. someone said it's the reverse of losing someone. when someone dies you think about all the things you can't do anymore. with a child every day you realize all the things you're about to experience together 20. a child heals you. i don't need to use the word trauma but something shifted on a nervous system level. 100x'd my appreciation for life even with the sleep deprivation 21. i want my son to look up to me for the values i represent. you can't teach a child anything if you're not the example yourself

@CyprxResearch @0xCryptoCafe Source contribution would be appreciated 😉 @Louis_Tellier

Europe’s largest banks are quietly moving into crypto custody & trading. After years of hesitation, 2025 marked the first retail launches. 2026 looks like the acceleration phase as banks respond to client capital flowing to exchanges. Key early movers: 🇪🇸 BBVA: among the first EU banks with retail crypto via MiCA 🇪🇸 Banco Santander (via Openbank): trading and custody expansion 🇫🇷 Groupe BPCE: early retail entry via Hexarq 🇫🇷 Société Générale: institutional custody via SG-FORGE 🇩🇪 DZ Bank: retail platform coming 🇳🇱 ABN AMRO: positioning after MiCA licensing progress 🇳🇱 ING Group: exposure via regulated crypto ETPs What’s driving this shift? - Retail outflows to crypto platforms - Regulatory clarity via MiCA - Demand for bank-grade custody - New fee and asset growth opportunities The question is no longer whether EU banks enter crypto but how fast the late adopters follow.

We used to publish newsletters. Today we publish research, packaged inside a newsletter. Another great piece from @Yuschukid

Special evening with special people. So much more to come from us in Paris

We wrapped up our Blockstories Horizon 2026 event series with a dinner in Paris, bringing together teams from @SteakhouseFi, @zama, @Morpho, @Spiko_finance, and @LayerZero_Core with leaders from the French TradFi ecosystem. 🇫🇷 Great to see the two worlds connect. More to come.

@0xbenharvey @safe @dl_research @BaptisteCota @MidasRWA @eshita Congrats! Great piece of work

The report is live! We analysed 25 crypto treasuries and found there's a sophistication gap between existing and available treasury management strategies Full report w/ @safe and @dl_research, with insights from @BaptisteCota of @MidasRWA and @eshita keyrock.com/realising-cryp…

@TziokasV @block_stories Thanks for sharing your insights with us! @TziokasV

Over the past months, we’ve had many conversations with Treasury teams across banks and multinationals. Those discussions shape how we develop Prividium. Converting it from a great product to a vertical business solution. I am sharing some of my insights with @block_stories.

@Ross_O_Leary @binance Congrats! Have a great start 🫡

*Some Personal News* I'm absolutely delighted to be joining @binance as Head of Corporate Communications. Navigating the global media landscape for the world’s largest crypto exchange is a phenomenal opportunity.

@hosseeb @arjunsethi @alex_scharrer my man!

Had a great debate with @arjunsethi from Kraken at NEARCON about when AI agents will actually be ready to manage real capital. My take: agent reliability is a step function. At 90% accuracy, it's a cool demo, but doesn't really change anything. Even at 98%, it's not good enough. But at 99.8%, it changes everything. Right now we're still around 90%, which puts us in the "cool experiment" territory, but you can see it starting to poke through. That's why everyone's excited; we're rapidly ascending the reliability curve. But we're not there yet. Think self-driving cars circa 2017. Small pockets of places willing to try them, frequent failures, high risk tolerance, human drivers as guardrails. That's where we are right now with "self-driving wallets." Arjun says he'd put 100% of his crypto into an AI agent within 6-12 months. I don't believe it. 2 years, maybe. But I'll be checking back in 12 months!

Strong piece of research on the current state of agentic commerce. The next billion crypto users will be agents.

@andyyy Just ape into these newsletters and enjoy hayat: institutional.blockstories.io crypto.blockstories.io

Who is the best person to follow for the convergence of legacy finance x crypto crossover???

🔴 We have now entered a race to build infrastructure among banks and traditional financial institutions to offer services related to digital assets👇 In my conversations with these players, the same questions come up almost every time: • How should we build it in-house? • Who are the right partners? • How do we keep up with the pace of innovation? • Where can we find the right talent to build an internal team? Because yes, despite the drop in prices, make no mistake → market demand for digital assets has remained intact. Tomorrow (March 5), @block_stories will host a webinar where four operators will present their solutions for assembling this very stack: 1️⃣ How to distribute tokenized assets across chains — Ivar Wiersma, @LayerZero_Core 2️⃣ How to manage tokenized assets securely — Mark Mayerfeld, GK8 by @glxyresearch 3️⃣ 5 best practices for launching crypto services — Stephanie Hurry, @boersestuttgart Digital 4️⃣ How to transact privately on public networks — Ghazi Ben Amor, @zama After these presentations comes my favorite part: the Q&A after each talk, and especially the breakout rooms, where you’ll be able to spend more time with the speaker who caught your attention the most. Here is the link to register for free: luma.com/xt0oyumc Hope to see you among us tomorrow!

The chefs have been cooking over the last weeks. All major asset managers are watching the vault space closely

@itsolelehmann If it's agent-to-agent, then why call in the first place? Text seems more efficient

In all seriousness, phone calls to businesses will soon be a thing of the past. You’ll just have your agent talking to their agent No humans on the line necessary, no more being put on hold etc Feels inevitable

Our founder @jp_grabs perspective was featured in @block_stories coverage of @bitwise acquiring @ChorusOne and expanded on signals for further staking industry consolidation. JP’s core point is simple: consolidation in staking is structural, not opportunistic. Over the next few years, we expect further consolidation in the staking and infrastructure segments. Even as institutional participation grows and staked ETPs expand the addressable market, growth will concentrate among a smaller group of scaled, trusted operators.