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France's Presidential Candidates Ignore Crypto Issues

On Sunday, citizens in one of the world’s top 10 economies go to the polls to choose their leader – and CoinDesk examines what France’s crypto community wants to see.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is running for reelection. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto Implicated in Child Porn, Terrorism, French Official Says, Calling for End to Online Anonymity

The head of France’s anti-dirty money unit said the authorities should be able to access information about even small online transfers.

Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances (Daniele SCHNEIDER/Getty Images)

Finance

French Crypto Platform Coinhouse Raises $17M to Fuel European Expansion

The Series B funding round was led by True Global Ventures and included a contribution from blockchain software company ConsenSys.

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Policy

French Central Bank Completes First Stage of Its CBDC Experiments

The final stage of the first tranche of experiments consisted of the issuance of a digital bond on a blockchain with settlement in CBDC.

Banque de France

Finance

French Fintech Lydia Attains Unicorn Status With $100M Series C Funding

The funding round includes new investors Dragoneers and Echo Street along with existing backers Tencent, Accel and Founders Future.

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Finance

CoinShares Acquires Crypto Investment Provider Napoleon for $15.7M

The transaction is expected to be completed this month.

Statue of Napoleon Bonaparte image via Shutterstock

Finance

French Fintech Lydia Taps Bitpanda to Let 5.5M Users Trade Crypto

Users of French payments app Lydia will now be able to trade over 170 crypto assets.

Los cofundadores de Bitpanda, de izquierda a derecha: Christian Trummer, Paul Klanschek y Eric Demuth.

Videos

French Fintech Lydia Taps Bitpanda to Let 5.5M Users Trade Crypto

Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda, the country's first tech unicorn, has teamed with French mobile payments app Lydia to offer its 5.5 million users the ability to invest in over 170 crypto assets. Bitpanda Chief Product Officer Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad shares insights into the partnership, France's regulatory reception to crypto, and the state of DeFi in Europe.

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Policy

Banque de France Calls for Further Examination of Wholesale CBDCs

A wholesale CBDC would be of benefit to cross-border payments, the bank concluded.

Banque de France

Finance

Binance Funds $116M Initiative to Grow French Crypto Ecosystem

The world’s biggest crypto exchange has teamed with nonprofit French Fintech to build a research hub and accelerator.

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