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🇷🇺 Russians' crypto transactions may fall under new restrictions — according to the discussed version of the bill by the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, operations for the purchase, sale, and transfer of crypto assets are planned to be filtered through a "banking filter".
In addition, it is proposed the creation of a black list of market participants — banks will automatically reject transfers to them.
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🎲 Trader predictorxyz">predictorxyz bet $65 800 that Axiom would be accused of insider trading when the probability of the event was estimated at only 13.8% — in the end, the bet paid off and brought him $411 400 profit.
Meanwhile, three hours before the accusations were published, two newly created anonymous wallets placed bets on Axiom totaling $59,800 and earned about $109 000 in a short time.
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💎 DeFi protocol Aave became the first in the industry whose total lending volume exceeded $1 trillion.
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🤖 Future blockchains will have to process up to 1 billion transactions per second — otherwise they will not withstand the load from AI agents, which will independently make purchases and online operations, stated at Stripe.
Currently, even the fastest networks operate at thousands of TPS, so the gap between reality and the demands of the "AI era" is colossal.
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🔮 Prediction platform Kalshi for the first time revealed information about insider trading cases — in one instance an employee of the most popular YouTube blogger MrBeast placed bets on outcomes, related to his videos, having access to non-public information.
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🪒 The Board of Directors of GD Culture Group authorized the sale of 7500 BTC from the company's treasury.
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🪙 Developers of Ethereum unveiled a roadmap that promises 10 000+ transactions per second on L1.
It is also planned to reduce transaction finalization time to 18 seconds and lower the staking threshold to 1 ETH.
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🇸🇻 In El Salvador, tourists have started issuing Bitcoin passports.
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🪙 Circle, the issuer of USDC, reported strong growth: in the fourth quarter revenue reached $770 million (+77% year-over-year), and net profit — $133 million.
For the full year 2025, the company earned $2.7 billion, which is 64% more than the previous year.
The total volume of transactions on the network for the year soared to $11.9 trillion — growth was 247%.
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🍀 A solo miner mined Bitcoin block #938092, having rented about 1 PH/s of hashrate for just $75 — and as a reward, he received 3.125 BTC ($200,000).
Over the past year, solo miners have already independently mined 21 blocks.
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📊 Stocks Strategy (MSTR) have become the main target for short-sellers amid an unrealized loss of $7 billion from its Bitcoin reserve.
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🍿 Senators demand from Binance to provide documents, concerning "the use of Binance by individuals in Iran", including documents on the dismissal of compliance department employees.
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🇮🇷 American Democrats are interested in $1.7 billion transactions benefiting Iran, passing through Binance.
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🇸🇻 El Salvador updated its state BTC education program: The National Bitcoin Office presented a completely redesigned Bitcoin Diploma 2.0 course.
The new format focuses on visual materials, animation, and real-life case studies to explain the principles of BTC and finance more easily to schoolchildren.
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📊 Since January 2025, cryptocurrencies (excluding BTC and ETH) have experienced a nearly one-sided sell-off, with the total net selling volume reaching $209 billion.
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🇷🇺 In the Astrakhan region, an illegal mining farm was uncovered — 136 devices connected to a 10 kV network via two transformers and stole electricity worth almost 40,000,000 rubles.
According to "Rosseti Yug", the volume of illegal consumption amounted to about 3.2 million kWh. Now law enforcement agencies are identifying those involved.
It seems someone decided that hashrate is more important than the meter.
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🍿 Several Axiom employees used internal company data for insider trading, reported crypto investigator ZachXBT. This refers to the abuse of official information for personal gain.
Axiom is a cryptocurrency trading platform (and infrastructure provider) that works with on-chain data and tools for traders.
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📊 In January, the volume of stablecoin transfers exceeded $10.5 trillion — the highest value since April 2022.
The majority of operations accounted for USDC from Circle — $8.3 trillion, USDT's indicator was $1.7 trillion, and DAI took third place with a value of $138 billion.
For incomplete February, the volume of stablecoin transactions reached $7.8 trillion.
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🪙 Net spot Bitcoin demand moved into positive territory for the first time since November 2025.
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💸 Vitalik Buterin sold a total of 17 196 ETH (approximately $35 million) — the market is calmly absorbing these volumes without noticeable panic, as the funds are directed to support projects within the Ethereum ecosystem.
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🪙 ETHZilla no longer bets on holding large ETH reserves — the company abandons the idea of being a "public proxy on Ethereum", conducts rebranding to Forum Markets and changes its Nasdaq ticker to FRMM.
A year ago, their shares soared to $107 after news of the creation of a $425 million Ethereum treasury, but then the quotes collapsed by about 96% from their peak.
Now the company is betting not on crypto reserves, but on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).
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🤣 It seems Lighter got a little ahead of the timeline — they already have Bitcoin at $47,500.
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🪙 Tether reported the acquisition of a strategic stake in Whop, a platform that serves over 18.4 million users and provides annual payouts of approximately $3 billion in 144 countries.
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🎁 The head of a Chinese company distributed to employees 70% of profits — over $26 000 000 in bonuses.
At a corporate party attended by 7000 employees, 800 tables with money were set up, and everyone could take as much as they managed to collect.
According to Cui, he does this not for grand gestures, but to help young people cope with loans and mortgages.
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🇰🇷 In South Korea, a man poisoned his business partner with a pesticide after a conflict over a loss of about $816 000 on BTC investments.
The victim survived but was unconscious for three days; the accused is charged with attempted murder, and the trial will take place on March 10 in Seoul.
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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Finance have prepared a bill "On Digital Currency and Digital Rights", which is intended to launch basic regulation of the crypto market from July 1, 2026, and a full-fledged infrastructure of exchanges, depositories, and exchangers — a year later.
The document introduces five types of market participants with requirements for information disclosure and AML control, describes the procedure for state bodies to access data on citizens' crypto assets, and obliges all investors to undergo testing before purchasing cryptocurrency in Russian jurisdiction.
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💸 Payments giant Stripe is considering the acquisition of PayPal in full or the purchase of individual assets.
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Ⓜ️ Meta is planning to enter the stablecoin market by the end of the year, if it successfully negotiates with a partner to launch dollar-pegged tokens within its payment infrastructure.
The company is considering integration with an external provider to use stablecoins for digital payments.
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🇷🇺 Russia has acknowledged a severe shortage of lawyers specializing in cryptocurrencies and DFAs (Digital Financial Assets) — courts are already actively hearing such cases, but there is almost no systematic training of specialists in the country.
Regulation is developing formally, but in practice, even the confiscation of crypto assets is complicated — there are no clear mechanisms and storage infrastructure.
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🏦 American lender Rate launched a service, which allows borrowers to use verified crypto assets when applying for a mortgage, without selling them.
This is in line with Senator Cynthia Lummis's initiative to recognize cryptocurrencies as a reserve asset in housing loans.
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