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BSP notes rise in account ownership in SWS survey

PDate: 5/22/2026
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) welcomes the results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.[1] The survey shows that more than half of Filipino adults now own a formal financial account.[2]According to SWS,...
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Cash remittances reach US$2.9B in March 2026

PDate: 5/15/2026
Content: ​Overseas Filipino (OF) cash remittances registered US$2.87 billion in March 2026. On a cumulative basis, cash remittances grew by 2.8 percent from US$8.44 billion in January-March 2025 to US$8.68 billion in January-March 2026...
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BSP leads crafting of national fin-ed strategy

PDate: 5/14/2026
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is leading the development of the National Strategy for Financial Education (NSFE), which aims to strengthen the financial health of Filipinos.The NSFE envisions a society where individua...
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BSP rolls out online training for cash handlers

PDate: 5/12/2026
Content: ​The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launched the BSP E-Learning Academy-Know Your Money (BELA-KYM) course through a virtual event on 05 May 2026 to strengthen the capability of Filipino cash handlers in identifying genuine ...
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Bank lending expands by 10.7% in March

PDate: 5/11/2026
Content: ​Loans from universal and commercial banks (U/KBs)[1] grew at a faster pace in March 2026, providing even stronger support for production activities of businesses and consumption of households. Loan growth accelerated to ...
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Domestic liquidity grows by 12% in March

PDate: 5/11/2026
Content: ​Domestic liquidity (M3) grew by 12.0 percent year-on-year to ₱20.4 trillion in March 2026, faster than the 10.3-percent increase in the previous month, based on preliminary data. After adjusting for seasonal fluctuations, M3 ...
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Protocol Cluster Updates: May 2026

A semi-regular gathering of Ethereum core devs from various client teams, or interop, recently took place in Svalbard, Norway. Over the week-long event, teams focused on hardening and preparation for the next upgrade, Glamsterdam. Several important mi...
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Soldøgn Interop Recap ☀️

This past week, just over 100 Ethereum core contributors gathered above the Arctic Circle — in Longyearbyen, Svalbard — for the Soldøgn Interop: a week of intense work on the Glamsterdam network upgrade. Soldøgn followed last year's Berlinterop, but r...
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Allocation Update – Q1 2026

Q1 2026 continued our focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations, with sustained investment in core domains like cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, security, and protocol research. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts we suppor...
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ETH Rangers Program Recap

In late 2024, the Ethereum Foundation, together with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL), launched the ETH Rangers Program, an initiative to provide stipends for individuals doing public goods security work in the Ethereum ecosystem. ...
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Checkpoint #9: Apr 2026

Ethereum's All Core Developer calls can be a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for periodic high-level updates, depending on what's happening in core development. See the previous update here. !image...
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This Is Fine (Until the Grant Runs Out)

The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethere...
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