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🪙 Investors filed a class lawsuit against Circle after the $280 million Drift Protocol hack — according to them, the company could have frozen the stolen USDC, but due to several hours of inaction, the attackers managed to withdraw more than $230 million via Circle's bridge.
Interestingly, yesterday Tether allocated $127.5 million to Drift for user compensation — and it is possible that one of the unofficial conditions for support could have been a public attack on the main competitor through a lawsuit against Circle.
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🦅 Bank of Russia spoke out AGAINST the withdrawal of officially purchased cryptocurrency to personal non-custodial wallets.
According to the regulator, if money is stolen after transfer or the user loses access, intermediaries will simply be able to disclaim responsibility, and the Central Bank wants to keep it with exchanges and brokers.
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🌏 In the world, only 7 countries remain where Bitcoin is officially banned: China, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar, and Bangladesh.
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🚓 Ukrainian security forces detained a member of an international hacker group that attacked companies in Europe and the USA — the man laundered over $100 million, obtained through ransom for stolen data, by converting money into cryptocurrency and investing it in real estate and property in Ukraine.
During more than 30 searches, law enforcement officers arrested real estate, cars, about $1 million in cash, and cryptocurrency worth approximately $8.3 million.
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🇨🇳 The Circle company, which issues the USDC stablecoin, stated that it sees "huge opportunities" for creating a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese yuan.
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🎲 Less than 1% of crypto projects disclose the terms of work with market makers — against the backdrop of constant accusations of artificial price pumping, hidden sales, and market manipulation, this looks particularly telling.
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🪙 Tether bought an additional 951 BTC ($70,000,000) — now the USDT issuer's balance holds 97 141 BTC ($7.2 billion).
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🇷🇺 The State Duma Committee on Competition Protection unexpectedly spoke against overly strict regulation of the crypto market and warned that strict licenses could kill startups and leave the market only to large players.
The State Duma also suggested considering the launch of a Russian stablecoin, for example, pegged to the ruble or gold.
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👻 Bitcoin developers proposed an update BIP-361 to freeze early wallets, vulnerable to quantum attack.
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🪙 In the first quarter of 2026, the main sellers of BTC were individuals, the main buyers were corporations and governments.
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🪙 Bitmine reported a quarterly loss of $3.82 billion (over $9 billion for the first six months), largely due to the decline in the price of Ethereum.
At the same time, the company is expanding its holdings (now 4% of all ETH) and increasing revenue—revenue rose to $11 million, almost entirely due to staking.
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✖️ Twitter (X) has launched Cashtags — asset tickers that turn into clickable elements with a price chart and discussion feed right within the app, eliminating the need to navigate to third-party websites.
This is currently a pilot project (available in the US and Canada on iPhone), but they plan to add trading directly from the feed in the future.
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💸 Coinbase has started closely collaborating with Anthropic in order to gain access to the AI model Mythos and use it to find vulnerabilities and defend against new attacks.
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🪙 Elon Musk's father stated that Elon and his brother Kimbal together own 23 400 BTC — this is about $1.7 billion and almost twice as much as Tesla holds.
According to him, cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, and the traditional banking system "has exhausted itself."
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🚓 Security forces announced the uncovering of Russia's largest "paper" VAT scheme totaling 1.2 trillion rubles — it included nearly 40 thousand companies and 4800 shell companies.
Through fictitious transactions, businesses were helped to massively reduce taxes, and the organizers took 2–3% of the deduction amount for this.
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⚡️ Cryptocurrency exchange Grinex suffered a massive cyberattack, as a result of which over 1 billion rubles were stolen from users.
The exchange claims that Western intelligence services may be behind the hack, and the stolen funds were transferred to TRX and collected in one wallet.
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💸 Drift Protocol will receive $127,500,000 from Tether for user fund recovery.
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🇷🇺 Aksakov stated that he believes in crypto.
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🖥 Miners sold about 61,000 BTC this year — this is approximately 3% of all reserves.
Despite the sales, they still hold about 1.8 million BTC, and some large pools, including AntPool, even continue to accumulate coins.
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🤣 The crypto project WLFI, associated with the Trump family, proposed tough new rules — early investors will be able to receive their tokens only after 4 years, and for those who do not agree, assets may be frozen permanently.
Justin Sun called it blackmail and stated that the project is actually controlled by an anonymous group, capable of overturning any community decision.
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💸 Damage from illegal mining in Russia in 2025 reached 4.7 billion rubles — this is more than in the previous five years combined.
At the same time, miners, according to the Federal Tax Service, will pay only about 600 million rubles in taxes instead of the expected billions.
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🖥 In the Irkutsk region, an underground mining farm was found right on the territory of an abandoned gas station — 10 ASIC miners were operating inside a closed pavilion.
The farm was connected bypassing the meters, and the damage from the stolen electricity was estimated at approximately 2 million rubles.
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🇰🇷 South Korea already accounts for about 30% of the global cryptocurrency trading volume, with 85% of transactions there being in altcoins, rather than Bitcoin or Ethereum.
For comparison, Japan's entire crypto market with the yen generates only $2–3 billion per month, while Korea averages $26 billion in just a week.
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🇵🇰 Pakistan's Central Bank for the first time since 2018 allowed banks to work with crypto companies — now they can open accounts after license verification.
This is the first step towards legalizing the crypto market in the country, although banks are still prohibited from investing in or holding cryptocurrencies.
Earlier we reported, that Pakistan plans to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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🎥 On April 22, the documentary film Finding Satoshi is released — the authors promise new investigations and an attempt to reveal who is behind the creation of Bitcoin.
Among the main candidates named are Adam Back, Hal Finney, and Nick Szabo.
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🪙 Justin Sun announced that TRON will be the first major public blockchain to implement NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptographic signatures on its mainnet to protect users' assets from quantum threats.
The project's technical roadmap is expected to be published soon.
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🦑 Kraken has confidentially filed for an IPO.
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🏬 In the App Store, a fake Ledger app was discovered, through which scammers have already stolen $9,500,000 in cryptocurrency in Bitcoin, Tron, and Solana.
Users themselves entered seed phrases into it, after which the attackers instantly gained full access to the wallets.
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🪙 Tether launches crypto wallet Tether Wallet.
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🇩🇪 German giant Deutsche Börse invested $200,000,000 in crypto exchange Kraken.
The deal became one of the largest investments of the traditional financial market in the crypto industry.
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