The SCEP has published two new articles on the topic of money and monetary policy. For the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Moritz Hütten comments on cryptocurrencies and their relevance for the financial system (article in German). Janina Urban from the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik and Ulrich Klüh discuss in SCEP Discussion Paper No. 9 strategies for the European Central Bank to cope with the socio-ecological challenges of the present.