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📚 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) received the first copies of the book Freedom Money in hardcover from the printing house.
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☠️ Hackers hacked another DeFi protocol Volo for $3 500 000.
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🦅 The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the legalization of the crypto market in Russia.
Digital currency will be officially recognized as property and it will be allowed to legally buy it through licensed Russian platforms, brokers, and management companies.
The market will be controlled and access permits issued by the Bank of Russia.
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🚓 A deputy of the Poltava City Council was accused of concealing crypto assets worth $7,700,000 — according to the investigation, the money was funneled through straw persons and deposited into personal wallets.
These assets were not declared in the 2022–2025 declarations, now the man will go to prison for 8 years.
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☠️ Since 2022, the crypto market has lost over $13 billion due to hacks — the largest cases include Ronin ($612 million), Poly Network ($611 million), and Bybit for $1.4 billion.
The trend is obvious: attack amounts are growing, and peaks increasingly fall on infrastructure projects and bridges.
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🪙 Tether minted 1 000 000 000 USDT.
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🇰🇷 South Korea's tax service ordered the development of a system for tracking crypto transactions, including analysis of non-custodial wallets and connections between addresses — launch is planned for this year.
However, it remains unclear how exactly they will "de-anonymize" such wallets in practice — likely through blockchain analytics and matching data from exchanges, which raises questions about accuracy.
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🪙 Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is NOT trying to become the fastest network or compete with exchanges: its primary goal is to remain the most secure, decentralized, and resilient system for storing digital assets.
He added that the network is focusing on AI-powered code review and protection against quantum threats so that Ethereum can operate even without constant developer input.
He also criticized L2 networks that simply copy Ethereum and make it more centralized. According to him, a useful L2 must develop its own mechanics and address specific application needs, rather than being "Ethereum, only faster."
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🪙 BitMine bought another 101 627 ETH last week.
Now the company has almost 5 million ETH on its balance sheet — about 4.1% of the total Ethereum supply.
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💸 Coinbase replaced two former top managers with AI agents, who are already helping employees with tasks and strategy directly within work tools.
Brian Armstrong believes that soon there will be more such agents than people, and AI will perform a significant portion of the work, including writing code.
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💰 Analysts linked the hack of Kelp DAO ($293 million) to the North Korean group Lazarus Group: attackers spoofed messages via compromised RPC nodes and DDoS.
The key problem is that Kelp DAO had a single point of failure scheme (1/1 DVN), which allowed the fake transaction to go through without verification.
The incident impacted the market: rsETH was frozen on Aave and an outflow of over $10 billion was recorded, and a number of DeFi protocols temporarily halted bridges — heightening concerns about cross-chain infrastructure vulnerabilities.
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☠️ The KelpDAO protocol was hacked — 116 500 ETH worth approximately $293 million was withdrawn from the rsETH restaking token.
The funds have already been moved via bridge to another address, the team is investigating the incident.
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🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that for the duration of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz is completely open for the passage of all commercial vessels.
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🇰🇬 Following several visits by Changpeng Zhao, Kyrgyzstan is preparing to welcome Justin Sun. Against the backdrop of cryptocurrency laws passed in 2022, the country is suddenly becoming a new magnet for crypto billionaires and major blockchain companies.
If the interest from such figures continues, Kyrgyzstan could become for Central Asia what Dubai has become for the Middle East—a destination for people to launch crypto projects, attract investment, and build a new digital economy.
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👻 Beijing lecturer Jiang Xueqin stated that the CIA or DARPA could have been behind the creation of Bitcoin — according to him, the development of Bitcoin required too many resources, cryptography, and years of work to be the work of one person, and the very fact that the technology was released for free and its author disappeared, more closely resembles a state experiment than an ordinary IT project.
He also claims that blockchain could have emerged in the same environment as the internet or GPS, and Satoshi Nakamoto's anonymity only strengthens suspicions.
However, most experts consider the theory dubious: the Bitcoin network operates on tens of thousands of independent nodes around the world, and its code has been developing openly and publicly for 17 years.
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⚖️ Justin Sun filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial after the project froze his $75,000,000 in WLFI tokens and stripped him of his voting rights. The company claimed it blacklisted Sun back in September 2025 due to suspicions of attempting to manipulate the token's price.
Now Sun is demanding the unfreezing of his assets and accuses the project of illegally destroying his rights as one of its largest investors.
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🔮 Kalshi will launch cryptocurrency futures trading.
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🖥 In the Novosibirsk region, a deputy illegally connected to the power grid and mined cryptocurrency worth 30 million rubles, but the court declared him insane and exempted him from liability, prescribing treatment.
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🐰 Almost the entire crypto market revolves around stables — up to 85% of spot volumes on TOP-CEX pass through stablecoin pairs, and not with BTC or fiat.
In essence, this is no longer just a tool — it's the main "rail" along which crypto liquidity moves.
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🍿 Vitalik Buterin, as always, made a spectacular appearance at another crypto event in Hong Kong.
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🇺🇿 President of Uzbekistan approved the creation of the first mining zone, Besqala Mining Valley, with tax incentives and cheap energy — essentially, the country is trying to centrally attract miners, and this could set a new vector for industry migration.
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📊 Hyperliquid's revenue per employee is 18 times higher than Anthropic's—$78 million versus $4.4 million.
Tether is also at the top, with about $17.3 million per employee.
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❄️ Arbitrum froze 30 766 ETH ($71 million), related to the KelpDAO exploit.
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🐳 Strategy bought another 34,164 BTC.
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🌏 The Global Uncertainty Index has updated its historical maximum, surpassing the levels of COVID-19 times, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and the dot-com crash.
Unlike past crises with a single key cause, pressure is now being created by a set of factors simultaneously — geopolitics, economics, and technological shifts.
This makes the situation less predictable and more difficult for markets and businesses.
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🇷🇺 Over 190 000 illegal miners were counted in Russia against only 5 500 legal ones — authorities want to tighten control, but at the same time legalize mining in regions with surplus energy to collect taxes.
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🪙 Over the week, investors poured almost $1 billion into spot Bitcoin ETFs — this is the best result since January and a sign that the market is ready to take risks again.
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🦑 Kraken's parent company Payward to acquire derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 000 000 in cash and stock.
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🖥 A court in the Lipetsk region ordered the owner of an illegal mining farm to pay almost 9,000,000 rubles for illegally connecting ASIC miners in two garages.
The man denied involvement, but energy workers showed a video of him opening the garages with his key, and a similar farm had previously been found at his wife's place.
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☠️ The internet is warning about a new wave of counterfeit Ledger devices, which are being sold en masse through Chinese marketplaces as genuine devices.
These wallets are found to contain modified chips, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth modules, and a researcher has linked the firmware to the Chinese company Espressif Systems—the device stealthily steals the seed phrase and can empty the wallet at any time.
A similar scheme previously earned scammers approximately $9.5 million through the fake Ledger Live app. Therefore, users are advised to buy devices only from Ledger and immediately verify the Genuine Check.
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