France News

French financial technology firm ID Distribution announced a joint venture with local real estate firm Groupe JRI, amining to tokenize Paris properties.

Major crypto exchange Coinbase is rolling out Tezos staking rewards for users in the United Kingdom and three European countries.

The French central bank has announced the first successful test of a digital euro.

French consumers can now buy Tezos from 10,000 mini-marts, tobacco stores and gas stations using prepaid coupons or cards.

The COVID-19 crisis has pushed people to seek alternative technological solutions as blockchain and crypto become more popular.

The Russian Embassy requested that French authorities extradite the alleged $4 billion launderer Alexander Vinnik to home arrest in Russia.

France is paving the way for a digital Euro, but how will its CBDC shape up, and what effect will it have on the cryptocurrency industry?

Australian blockchain firm Power Ledger and French green energy retailer ekWateur are offering 220,000 French households a blockchain tool to customize their energy mix.

Soccer star Kylian Mbappé filed a complaint against an allegedly cryptocurrency scam network under investigation by French police.

STO platform Blockpulse has secured registration with the ACPR Bank of France.

Bitcoin suffers an epic 50% price crash, MakerDAO’s debt crisis, and a French bank blocks consumers from using Coinbase.

“The fact that an OECD country is recognizing BTC as a ‘fungible’ asset is progress — a wake-up call to banks, institutional investors, regulators that Bitcoin is here to stay.” — Dan Schatt.

French regulators are considering a regulatory sandbox meant to study the impact of security tokens in the European Union.

Early reports say European bank BNP Paribas has blocked transfers to Coinbase, citing “fraud, malware and scams.”

A French commerce court treated Bitcoin as currency during a recent trial between two cryptocurrency firms.