{"id":19539,"date":"2025-03-28T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19539"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:16:43","slug":"french-state-bank-bpifrance-plans-27m-investment-in-digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19539","title":{"rendered":"French State Bank Bpifrance Plans $27M Investment in Digital Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bpifrance, a French state-owned investment bank, plans to invest 25 million euros ($27 million) in digital assets as part of an initiative to strengthen the country&#8217;s blockchain industry.<\/p>\n<p>The bank will buy and hold crypto tokens related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-is-defi\/\" target=\"_blank\">decentralized finance<\/a> (DeFi) tokenization, staking and staking, <a href=\"https:\/\/presse.bpifrance.fr\/bpifrance-annonce-lacceleration-de-sa-strategie-dinvestissement-en-actifs-numeriques\" target=\"_blank\">it said on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for the investments to support local blockchain projects in their early stages for the betterment of the broader blockchain industry in France<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having the ability to invest directly in digital assets is a significant step forward for Bpifrance and a pioneering initiative among sovereign wealth funds,&#8221; the bank said.<\/p>\n<p>France emerged as a burgeoning crypto hub in 2022 as it sought to pre-empt the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2023\/07\/26\/why-france-is-emerging-as-a-european-crypto-hub\" target=\"_blank\">introduction of the European Union&#8217;s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation<\/a> and tempted a number of prominent cryptocurrency firms to make the country their European base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bpifrance, a French state-owned investment bank, plans to invest 25 million euros ($27 million) in digital assets as part of an initiative to strengthen the country&#8217;s blockchain industry. The bank will buy and hold crypto tokens related to decentralized finance (DeFi) tokenization, staking and staking, it said on Thursday. The plan is for the investments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}