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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.
Special conditions for large stakers, write us directly.
💳 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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🪙 After 18 months of investigation, The New York Times stated, that Adam Back could be Satoshi Nakamoto — the creator of Bitcoin.
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📸 Also, Changpeng Zhao for the first time showed dozens of personal photos — from his family's move to Vancouver and his first x286 computer, to photos with Vitalik Buterin, Gary Gensler, and Binance's urgent relocation from China after the ban on cryptocurrencies in 2017.
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🤣 CZ said that SBF "in all seriousness" asked him for a couple of billion dollars during the call—"as if he were asking for a sausage sandwich."
He emphasized, however, that he had no plans to buy FTX, and that the letter of intent was merely a formality to assess the situation and protect users.
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🕵️♂️ CertiK has launched public testing of its AI auditor. According to internal data, it identifies vulnerabilities in smart contracts with an accuracy rate of up to 88.6%.
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🪙 Tomorrow will take place the listing of Bitcoin ETF from Morgan Stanley.
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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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🎛 After the release of Changpeng Zhao's book, an old conflict flared up— OKX CEO accused him of lying and distorting events from the OKCoin era.
Zhao himself claims he left due to disagreements and denies forging contracts, admitting that someone else could have used his account.
In response, the head of OKX calls him a "pathological liar", states that there is evidence of forgery, and accuses him of market manipulation — the dispute has been ongoing since 2014–2015.
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🇨🇭 UBS and five major Swiss banks have started testing a stablecoin pegged to the Swiss franc.
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🍿 CZ released a book «Freedom of Money», interesting points:
🔵 Why the FTX exchange collapsed so quickly. Caroline Ellison publicly stated that she was ready to buy back the FTT token at $22 — this was a mistake, as the market perceived this price as a ceiling and began actively shorting. As a result, the token collapsed.
🔵 Missed opportunity with Ethereum. CZ met Vitalik back in 2013 and knew about Ethereum from the very beginning, but he didn't invest because he doubted whether the idea was even feasible.
🔵 Story with the SEC head. In 2019, CZ met Gary Gensler and even offered him to become an advisor to Binance — he refused, saying he wanted to head the SEC. A few years later, it was under him that the regulator filed a lawsuit against Binance.
🔵 Why LUNA wasn't sold at its peak. Binance invested $3 million in LUNA back in 2018; by the time of the collapse, the position had grown to $1.6 billion, but Changpeng Zhao refused to sell: he didn't want to exacerbate market panic. As a result, the asset virtually zeroed out.
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🏦 Stablecoins are actively displacing banking infrastructure: in February 2026 their monthly turnover for the first time exceeded ACH — the system for bank cashless transfers in the USA — $7.2 trillion vs $6.8 trillion.
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🇮🇷 Donald Trump stated that he agreed to suspend strikes on Iran for two weeks after negotiations with Pakistan and in exchange for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran, in response, confirmed that it will cease military actions if the attacks truly stop, and the first negotiations between the parties could take place as early as Friday.
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🇺🇸 According to information from the FBI, in 2025 Americans lost $11.36 billion to crypto scams — 22% more than the previous year.
Fake "investments" caused the most damage, and almost 40% of all losses affected people over 60.
Separately, the number of AI-powered scams sharply increased: over 22,000 such complaints and almost $900 million in damages were registered during the year.
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