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Despite a very public White House stance against a Central Bank Digital Currency, former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad is saying the quiet part out loud — a U.S. digital dollar is coming, one way or another. The debate, he suggests, is happening behind closed doors whether politicians acknowledge it or not.
Across the Atlantic, a DWS and Galaxy-backed firm called AllUnity is moving in a different direction entirely, planning to launch a Swedish krona stablecoin called SEKAU as early as June. It's part of a broader European push to build regulated, local-currency digital tokens that don't depend on the U.S. dollar — a financial sovereignty play wrapped in fintech clothing.
And in the world of open source infrastructure, a quiet crisis nearly went unnoticed. pgBackRest, a critical backup tool for PostgreSQL — the database quietly powering much of the modern web — had its future hanging on a single maintainer. A coalition including AWS and Percona has now stepped up with funding, a reminder that the internet's foundations are often more fragile than anyone cares to admit.
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