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🪙 Tether reported a profit of $1.04 billion for Q1 2026 — the company's reserve buffer grew to a record $8.23 billion, and the volume of assets in U.S. Treasury bonds reached approximately $141 billion.
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🌎 In Latin America, users are increasingly exchanging traditional money for "digital dollars" — in 2025, USDT and USDC accounted for 40% of all cryptocurrency purchases, while Bitcoin accounted for only 18%.
Due to inflation and the fall of local currencies, people buy stablecoins not for trading, but as a more understandable way to preserve savings in dollars.
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🗽 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has stated that he has long been a supporter of Bitcoin and considers it a tool for power projection. He believes that crypto is already moving beyond investment and becoming a factor of geopolitical influence.
The Pentagon is already working on how to use or mitigate this tool to maintain its advantage.
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📊 Bitcoin rose by almost 12% in April 2026 — Ethereum added 7.3% in price over the month.
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⛽️ MARA, the largest U.S. miner, buys energy company Long Ridge for $1.5 billion to get its own 505 MW gas power plant in Ohio.
On this basis, the company wants to build not only mining operations, but also a digital infrastructure center for AI and IT clients — meaning it transforms from a miner into an energy player.
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🦋 Crypto Bot is 5 years old today — during this time, it has grown from a simple tool for crypto checks into one of the most convenient services for working with crypto directly in Telegram.
Today it includes checks, P2P, exchange, payments via Crypto Pay and other features that users and projects use daily.
Over these five years, the market has repeatedly gone through hype, drops, and new cycles, but Crypto Bot continued to develop and remain an understandable entry point into crypto.
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☠️ Wasabi Protocol was hacked for $5,000,000 across the Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast networks.
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🌎 The next 1 billion users will come to crypto not for trading, but through real-world use cases — payments, income-generating products, asset tokenization, and AI.
The market is already showing a completely different scale: the supply of stablecoins has exceeded $320 billion, and the monthly on-chain transaction volume has reached 7.2 trillion.
According to Binance, this shift toward practical application could increase crypto's user base to 2 billion by 2030.
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Ⓜ️ Meta launches crypto stablecoin payouts for creators.
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🇨🇿 The head of the Czech Central Bank supported the idea of adding BTC to central banks' strategic reserves, although he admitted that for the regulator, it is still an unusual and risky asset.
According to the bank's research, even 1% of Bitcoin in a portfolio can increase expected returns without a noticeable increase in overall risk due to low correlation with traditional assets.
Currently, the Czech Central Bank is already testing a small BTC portfolio over a two-year horizon.
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🇷🇺 Russian officials reported that, according to the bill, Russians will be able to continue using crypto wallets in foreign services, but all operations will need to be reported to the Federal Tax Service (FTS).
In fact, such wallets are intended to be equated to foreign bank accounts — with all tax and reporting consequences.
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🇨🇦 The Canadian government plans to ban crypto ATMs to combat fraud, even though the country remains one of the largest markets with around 4000 devices (10% of the global total).
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🪙 An participant Ethereum ICO with 10,000 ETH on balance woke up after 11 years of inactivity.
In 2015, he acquired these coins for just $3100 — today their value is approximately $22 900 000.
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🇰🇿 The regulator AFSA warned residents of Kazakhstan about the risks of using unlicensed platforms for trading digital assets — a well-known brand, app, advertisement, or social media do not mean that the service has permission to operate in the AIFC jurisdiction.
Users are advised to check platforms in advance through the AFSA public register and not to transfer funds to companies with unconfirmed status.
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🇦🇪 UAE announced a possible withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ starting May 1, which will allow the country to produce oil without quotas.
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💼 In April, the volume of venture investments in crypto projects decreased by 75% compared to March.
The market cooled sharply — funds became noticeably more cautious in new deals.
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💳 Spending on cryptocurrency cards has already reached $600,000,000 per month — with about 90% of transactions going through Visa, which is increasingly betting on crypto infrastructure, and not just traditional banks.
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🎲 American senators have officially forbidden themselves from participating in bets on prediction markets, such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
Unofficially, it's still possible to gamble through relatives — brothers, wives, and even grandmothers were not included in the list.
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💰 April 2026 became a record month for DeFi hacks — in 30 days, protocols lost approximately $635,000,000 in 28 attacks.
The main blows fell on Drift and KelpDAO — together they lost over $500 million.
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🪙 Tether wants to unite a full-fledged crypto corporation under one brand — Twenty-One Capital (XXI) plans to merge with Strike and mining company Elektron Energy, ultimately XXI could become not just a public BTC holder, but an ecosystem with treasury, mining, lending, financial services, and access to capital markets.
The terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, but the company's balance sheet already holds over 43,500 BTC.
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🇨🇦 The Canadian sovereign wealth fund bought shares in Strategy for $219,000,000.
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🪙 Tether minted 1,000,000,000 USDT.
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🇮🇷 The US announced the confiscation of nearly $500 million in Iranian crypto assets as part of Operation Economic Fury.
At the same time, Washington is freezing Iranian bank accounts, foreign assets, and luxury real estate, and threatening secondary sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil.
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💳 Visa has added the Polygon blockchain to its global stablecoin payments program.
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🇵🇱 Polish crypto exchange Zondacrypto, which previously **announced** the loss of access to a wallet with 4,503 BTC, may be under the control of the "Tambov" organized crime group — in 2018, representatives of the group acquired a controlling stake in the exchange, which at that time was called BitBay.
After privatization, the platform changed its name to Zondacrypto, and about €18 million were transferred from the company's accounts to another exchange — the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on fraud and money laundering, and more than 30,000 people could have suffered from the exchange's activities.
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🇰🇿 In Kazakhstan, over 10,000,000 USDT frozen in the RAKS Exchange case — one of the largest shadow crypto services in the CIS with a turnover of over $224 million.
According to AFM, transactions from over 200 drug markets from Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova passed through the exchanger — as part of the investigation, 4000+ wallets were checked, and 3.2 million USDT has already been confiscated.
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🤖 A16z crypto tested whether AI agents could hack DeFi on their own. Without prompting, only 10% of attacks were successful, but with a knowledge base of past hacks, the success rate increased to 70%.
The AI almost always found a vulnerability, but often failed at the most important stage—building a working exploit. It got confused by multi-step schemes, miscalculated profits, and sometimes abandoned a working idea.
The conclusion is simple: AI is already greatly assisting in auditing and bug hunting, but complex DeFi hacks are still a human task.
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🍿 Forbes published an article about Eric Trump and his mining company American Bitcoin, highlights:
🔵 The company sells investors the image of a "money printing machine", but the main profit goes to insiders, not retail investors.
🔵 American Bitcoin makes money not only from mining, but also from the hype around the Trump name, high stock valuations, and attracting funds for BTC purchases.
🔵 When going public on Nasdaq, the company was valued at approximately $13.2 billion, although it had about $270 million in BTC on its balance sheet.
🔵 Shares fell by approximately 92% from their peak, investors lost about $500 million, while Eric Trump's net worth grew from $190 million to $280 million.
Eric Trump responded that Forbes had become a "political weapon" and provided his own figures: American Bitcoin already has over 7000 BTC, approximately 90,000 miners, and 28 EH/s of power.
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🇺🇸 CFTC will use AI to monitor trading data on the crypto market and review crypto company registration applications.
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💸 Over $1 trillion was moved using stablecoins in April — in 2026, the monthly volume of transfers has never fallen below this mark.
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