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🪙 The Ethereum network broke a historical record — over 3.6 million transactions passed through it in a day.
Blockchain activity has been growing for several months — in the first quarter alone, Ethereum attracted 284,000 new users, and the volume of stablecoins on the network reached a maximum.
Meanwhile, Tom Lee's BitMine bought another 71,524 ETH onto its balance — now the company holds 4.875 million ETH on its balance (over 4% of the total supply).
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🦅 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation explained that it allows Russians to use cryptocurrency NOT for investments, but primarily for "socially significant" transfers under restrictions.
Therefore, they want to set a limit for unqualified investors — no more than 300 thousand ₽ per year through official Russian platforms.
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🖥 The head of Galaxy Research believes that Bitcoin and AI are moving in opposite directions — mining has transformed from a home hobby into an industry with ASICs and huge data centers, while AI, on the contrary, is gradually moving away from giant clusters to compact models that can be run directly on your laptop or phone.
The further we go, the more accessible local neural networks become, whereas mining — less and less accessible for ordinary people.
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🇪🇺 The European Central Bank backed the idea to transfer control over large crypto companies from individual countries to a single EU regulator — ESMA.
If the initiative is adopted, exchanges and crypto services will no longer be able to obtain a license in "convenient" countries like Malta or Ireland, to operate across the entire European Union with softer rules.
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🚬 The World Liberty Financial project of the Trump family found itself at the center of another scandal after reports of a hidden function in the smart contract, allowing the freezing and seizure of user tokens.
Justin Sun stated that neither investors nor he himself knew about this, and called such a system the complete opposite of DeFi and decentralization.
According to Sun, his wallet with WLFI was blocked back in 2025, and decisions within the project were made opaquely and without real community participation.
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😂 Crypto project WLFI removed the page with Trump and his family from its website, replacing it with text stating that they allegedly do not directly participate in the project's management.
It seems the team is trying to distance itself from the scandal surrounding the conflict of interest, but the problem is that the Trump family's involvement has long been documented in SEC filings — it will no longer be possible to delete this retroactively.
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🇧🇾 Interest in launching cryptobanks in Belarus is growing following Lukashenko's new decree.
According to the National Bank, seven companies and crypto exchanges are already participating in discussions.
Starting mid-summer, they will be able to apply for cryptobank status, allowing them to issue cards with cryptocurrency balances and conduct regular banking transactions.
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🇷🇺 In Russia, fines of up to 20,000 rubles may be introduced for failing to report crypto wallets, — media reports.
It will be necessary to notify the tax authorities even if the wallet is simply created and not used. It is difficult to control this, but when tracking the withdrawal of crypto to fiat within the country, it will no longer be possible to hide assets — and then it will become virtually impossible to evade reporting.
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🚓 In Moscow, businessman Gagik Gulakyan was detained — previously he was a plaintiff in the Bitmama case (Valeria Fedyakina). He is suspected of illegal banking activities as part of a group with large income, the investigation is seeking his arrest.
Fedyakina herself has already been sentenced to 7 years for cryptocurrency fraud amounting to over 2.2 billion rubles.
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🚓 Bithumb has begun seizing the assets of users who failed to return 7 BTC after being erroneously credited during a promotion.
Due to a glitch, the exchange credited 620 000 BTC instead of small payouts, some of which customers managed to withdraw or sell, leaving a loss of over $100 million.
Now the company is pursuing legal action to recover the funds, and in most cases, users are likely to lose.
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🇦🇪 The Dubai regulator has issued the first global guidelines for cryptoasset issuance, clearly dividing them into categories and establishing requirements for licensing, reserves, and disclosure.
Token issuance in Dubai is now formalized: stablecoins and RWAs are subject to the strictest rules, including mandatory reserves and redemption rights.
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💰 Bitcoin Depot, a cryptocurrency ATM operator, reported a $3.7 million hack, in which an attacker gained access to its IT systems and withdrew approximately 50.9 BTC from corporate wallets.
The incident occurred amid increasing regulatory pressure and licensing issues in the US – 666 such devices have been shut down in the country since the beginning of 2026 alone.
In March, Connecticut authorities suspended Bitcoin Depot's money transfer license after the operator exceeded the state's 15% fee cap on 1,015 transactions. This resulted in 510 customers overpaying approximately $150,426.
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🪙 Circle launched CPN Managed Payments, a platform that allows banks and payment services to process USDC payments without storing crypto assets: all infrastructure and compliance remains with Circle.
This simplifies the integration of stablecoins into traditional payments and reduces barriers for institutions.
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☠️ Scammers are increasingly selling fake hardware wallets with a pre-set seed phrase — after some time they simply withdraw the funds.
Such devices should only be bought from official sellers, and you should always generate the seed phrase yourself — otherwise, the wallet itself turns into a hacking tool.
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🇮🇷 Iran will charge for the transit of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz in BTC — Financial Times
15–20 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz daily — this is $15–20 million in profit per day.
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🐋 Strategy purchased an additional 13,927 BTC for $1 billion.
Now the company's balance is 780,897 BTC, and the average purchase price is $75,577 per 1 BTC.
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🇷🇺 Russia may introduce a criminal article for "gray" cryptocurrency turnover — illegal transactions with damages from 3.5 million rubles will entail up to 4 years in prison, and for organized groups — up to 7 years.
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☠️ American musician Garrett Dutton lost 5.9 BTC worth $420 000 after he installed a fake Ledger app and manually entered his seed phrase into it.
Hackers almost immediately withdrew the coins through nine transactions to addresses linked to the KuCoin exchange.
We recently warned that scammers are increasingly selling fake hardware wallets with a pre-set seed phrase — after some time, they simply withdraw the funds.
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💰 Hackers hacked the Hyperbridge bridge and through a fake message gained control over the DOT token contract on Ethereum.
After that, they minted 1 billion DOT and immediately dumped them in one transaction, earning approximately $237,000.
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🪙 In India, a Bitcoin wallet has been created that can be installed on an old phone, hidden and disguised as any app.
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🇺🇸 The US Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of inflation, rose to 3.3%.
Last month's figure was 2.4%.
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🖥 In the Irkutsk region, the head of a local company was detained, who for almost half a year mined cryptocurrency bypassing meters at an industrial base and in several other houses.
According to energy experts, he managed to steal electricity worth more than 40,000,000 rubles, and the police seized about 200 ASIC miners.
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🇫🇷 France wants to force users to disclose funds over €5000 in non-custodial wallets like MetaMask, Phantom, and Ledger — even though the tax authorities can't verify this.
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📥 Yield from TON staking is over 20% annually — inflation has increased and now every day the blockchain issues 560,000 TON, which are distributed among validators and stakers.
Through @StakeeBot you can stake from 1 TON and get the best conditions with minimal commission. If you have idle TON — be sure to put them into staking, otherwise you are simply losing money.
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💳 The monthly transaction volume using crypto cards in March 2026 was approximately $600,000,000—more than triple the volume for the same period in 2025.
Since the introduction of crypto cards, users have completed approximately 22,000,000 transactions, with the total transaction volume exceeding $6.6 billion.
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🪙 Binance remains the largest liquidity center — even against the backdrop of a market slowdown, it accounts for about 32% of spot and 40% of derivatives.
At the same time, futures now form the main activity ($3.5 trillion per month), where Binance leads by a large margin.
Even with a decrease in volumes, traders continue to concentrate on the platform due to market depth and execution quality.
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🪙 A developer proposed a way to save Bitcoin wallets from a quantum attack: instead of vulnerable signatures, the owner will be able to prove that the wallet belongs to them without revealing secret data.
This will allow access to funds to be maintained even if current cryptography stops working.
This complements ideas like BIP-360 and provides a realistic scenario for saving funds in a post-quantum world.
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💳 Visa has unveiled a merchant platform that enables purchases using autonomous artificial intelligence.
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🗽 US authorities are preparing new rules that will force stablecoin issuers like USDT and USDC to be able to freeze and block any suspicious transfers.
Companies will have to track possible money laundering and sanctions evasion themselves — otherwise, regulators may intervene directly.
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🪙 A new standard ERC-8211 in Ethereum will allow to combine complex DeFi operations into one transaction instead of several separate steps.
This will simplify the work of AI agents and applications — the system will be able to calculate the result right during execution, without predefined parameters.
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