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BIS and FSB Stablecoin Reports 2026: Key Findings on Bank Deposits, Monetary Policy and Global Financial Stability
October 2026 BIS and FSB reports examine stablecoins, bank deposit substitution, USDT, USDC, monetary policy, cross-border risks and financial stability.
Blockchain for Smart Cities: Can Cities Build a Shared Digital Trust Layer?
Blockchain can help smart cities build a shared digital trust layer, enabling departments to verify important records, improve transparency, and strengthen accountability without replacing existing systems.
Blockchain and Digital Identity: Moving From “Who Are You?” to “Can You Prove It?
Blockchain-based digital identity enables users to prove specific information through verifiable credentials, improving privacy, reducing repeated verification, and giving individuals greater control over their personal data.
Blockchain Digital Credentials: A New Way to Verify Education
Blockchain-based digital credentials can make education certificates easier to verify, share and authenticate, reducing manual paperwork while giving students portable and trustworthy proof of their qualifications.
Who Controls Your Medical Records?
Blockchain can help healthcare systems create a secure and auditable access layer, giving patients greater visibility and control while allowing authorized providers to verify and access medical information.
ESMA’s Review of the MiCA Regulation: Risk Factors and Proposed Regulatory Solutions
While ESMA’s MiCA review builds a structured, conduct-based licensing regime for DeFi, staking, and market operations across the EU, India regulates Virtual Digital Assets primarily through strict taxation (CBDT) and AML enforcement (FIU-IND) without providing formal market authorization or consumer protection frameworks.
From Vehicle Data to Courtroom: Blockchain for Digital Forensics
Blockchain can strengthen digital forensics by recording evidence hashes and access history, helping investigators verify the integrity and trace the handling of vehicle data without storing sensitive evidence directly on-chain.
Blockchain in Supply Chains: From Paper Trails to Digital Trust
Blockchain can create a shared and verifiable digital trail across supply chains, helping organisations track critical events, verify product journeys, and improve transparency and traceability.
When Blockchains Cannot Talk to Each Other
Blockchain interoperability enables different blockchain networks to communicate, verify information and exchange data through trusted interoperability layers without requiring organizations to abandon their existing systems.
Blockchain + IoT: Can We Trust the Data Coming from Machines?
Blockchain and IoT can work together to improve the security, integrity and traceability of machine-generated data, using verified records, edge computing and secure device identities.
Blockchain in 5G and 6G: Building Trust Between Connected Systems
Blockchain can provide a shared trust, verification and accountability layer for 5G and 6G networks, helping operators, devices and services securely coordinate across distributed infrastructure.
Blockchain Security: Why “Immutable” Does Not Mean “Unbreakable”
Blockchain provides strong record integrity, but it does not make the entire system unbreakable. Secure blockchain applications require protection across identity, smart contracts, access controls, key management, monitoring, and governance.
India’s Crypto Economy Reaches $340 Billion in Annual Inflows, OECD Data Shows
India received approximately $340 billion in blockchain based crypto asset inflows between June 2024 and June 2025, the largest absolute inflow in Asia. OECD data place this at roughly 9% of India’s annual GDP, highlighting the scale of India’s rapidly expanding crypto economy.
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Digital South Trust’s research across nine Indian States examined how cryptocurrencies and stablecoins can be used through overseas platforms and intermediaries for hotels, flights, groceries, shopping, mobile recharges, food delivery, electricity payments, online purchases and gold.
Blockchain + AI + Cloud: Building the Next Digital Infrastructure
AI, blockchain and cloud computing are converging to build the next generation of digital infrastructure, combining scalable computing, intelligent decision-making and verifiable trust across industries.
Blockchain Beyond the Hype: Where Is It Actually Being Used?
### From Supply Chains to Healthcare, Education and Digital Identity, Blockchain Is Becoming an Infrastructure Technolog...
FATF 2026 Digital Hawala Stablecoins Crypto Money Laundering India
: A new FATF 2026 report warns that stablecoins such as USDT, USDC and DAI, crypto wallets, VASPs, OTC brokers, fintech platforms and mobile payment systems are increasingly being integrated into underground banking and professional money-laundering networks. Here is what the findings mean for India and the global fight against crypto crime.
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Digital South Trust research reconstructs ₹82,555 crore+ in India-linked crypto fraud, Ponzi schemes, exchange hacks, USDT laundering and illicit-asset exposure. Explore major cases, cybercrime trends and the growing role of stablecoins
From Wallet Trace to Courtroom
Digital South Trust Trains 5,350 Law-Enforcement Officers Across India in Crypto Crime Investigation As cryptocurrency ...
India’s Crypto Regulation Gap
Beyond Trading and PMLA, India Needs a Full Digital-Asset Framework India’s next crypto policy should not be limited to...
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Discover how a blockchain-based exam paper system could help India secure question papers, prevent tampering, create transparent audit trails and strengthen fairness in government and competitive examinations.
Crypto Scams in India: Stay Alert, Stay Safe
Crypto Scam Awareness Guide for Indian Users: Bitcoin, USDT, Fake Trading Apps, P2P Fraud, Wallet Scams and Investment Fraud
Distributed Ledger Technology
A distributed ledger is a database whose records are replicated or shared among several participating nodes
MiCA Crypto Regulation 2026
MiCA Crypto Regulation 2026: Complete EU Crypto Exchange, Stablecoin, CASP & Compliance Rules
CBDT Crypto Classification and Reporting Standards for Crypto Exchanges in India
Complete Framework Under the Income-tax Rules, 2026 India's direct-tax reporting framework for crypto-assets has change...
Crypto Investor Education Must Come Before Easy Market Access
Investor education must come before investor access. Customer money must be segregated before customer money is accepted.
Dollarisation Risk for India: Global Agencies Warn on USD-Backed Stablecoins
USD-backed stablecoins, digital dollarisation and monetary sovereignty are rapidly emerging as major issues in the global debate on crypto regulation and the future of money. For India and other emerging-market economies, the most important stablecoin risk may not be crypto volatility.
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