The European Central Bank selects Amazon, the European Payments Initiative, CaixaBank, Worldline, and Nexi to prototype digital euro user interfaces by Q1 2023 (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Chainalysis: emerging markets, led by Vietnam and the Philippines, drove global cryptocurrency adoption over the past year; China remained active despite a ban  —  The blockchain analytics firm’s 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index also shows China remains active despite a ban on crypto trading.

Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype internet satellites in early 2023 on the new Vulcan rocket developed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin  —  Two prototypes would launch early next year as Amazon seeks to build a constellation that would eventually grow to 3,236 satellites …

Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News:
Atlanta-based ConnexPay, which integrates incoming user payments with supplier payments in one platform, raised $110M from FTV Capital for European expansion  —  Fintech platform ConnexPay announced on Tuesday it received $110 million in growth investment led by FTV Capital to expand the company beyond the U.S. and into Europe.

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
The Reserve Bank of India plans to begin testing its CBDC on November 1, with nine banks participating, and a retail version by the end of November  —  A pilot for a retail version will start within a month.  —  India’s central bank will introduce a pilot wholesale central bank digital currency …

Bloomberg:
Nigeria’s central bank slashes the daily ATM withdrawal limit from ~$337/day to ~$45/day in a bid to boost digital payments and eNaira digital currency adoption  —  Nigeria’s central bank slashed the daily withdrawal limit from automatic teller machines in a bid to boost digital payments in Africa’s most-populous nation.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community  —  – What If You Don’t Like It?  — Digital Cash  —  Part II  —  What Does It Mean?  — A Store of Value  — A Distributed Computer