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🛢 The US may lift sanctions on Russian oil due to a temporary global shortage, — US Treasury Secretary Bessent.
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💳 Mastercard along with Google are developing the Verifiable Intent system, which cryptographically records what exactly the user has authorized their AI agent to purchase.
This will allow for confirming the agent's authority, recording transaction terms, and resolving disputes or fraud faster.
Essentially, an infrastructure is being created where purchases can be made not by humans, but by their digital assistants.
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🐎 In Canada, crypto scammers pretend to be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and promise victims to "recover stolen crypto".
Using the police logo, they write to people who have lost money in scam schemes, and ask them to pay a little more — allegedly for "investigation" and fund recovery.
The RCMP itself reminded: the police never demand money for investigations and do not deal with crypto recovery through private firms.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan's Central Bank formed a portfolio worth $350,000,000 from gold and foreign exchange reserves for investments in crypto assets.
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🤖 Vitalik Buterin believes that next-generation wallets will actively use AI, but it's currently too risky to trust language models with managing large sums.
In his opinion, a secure scheme should look like this: AI suggests a plan of action, a light local client models it, the user checks the result and only after that manually confirms the transaction, prioritizing security.
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👻 Quantum computing company PsiQuantum has begun construction of a quantum facility with a capacity of 1 million qubits, which, according to scientists, is powerful enough to "hack Bitcoin".
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🪙 Solana in a year showed a 755% growth in Total Payment Volume (TPV) year-over-year, outpacing competitors and fintech giants — the network is used as a global settlement layer by companies such as Visa, Stripe, Worldpay, and Western Union.
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💳 In Russia, there are plans to create a unified registry of bank cards by 2027, to track the total number of cards each person has across all banks.
Starting September 1, 2026, limits will also come into effect — up to 5 cards in one bank and up to 20 in total, which should help combat "drops" and fraudulent schemes.
According to the Central Bank, most ordinary customers will be virtually unaffected by these restrictions.
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🇷🇺 Banks and brokers may be allowed to operate as crypto exchanges — without a separate full license, but on a notification basis using their existing permits, — stated Nabiullina.
At the same time, for such operations, they plan to introduce capital restrictions and additional risk requirements.
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💸 Company Bitwise, issuer of Bitcoin ETF, donated $233,000 to Bitcoin Core developers as part of its annual commitment to reinvest 10% of the fund's gross profit back into the ecosystem.
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🪙 Canadian-American billionaire and investor Chamath Palihapitiya criticized Bitcoin for its lack of privacy, hinting at the advantages of "anonymous" solutions without specific names.
The statement came amidst a new attempt by BTC to start growing.
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🎰 Almost half of Polymarket's volume may be artificial: about 28% is created by airdrop farmers by spinning "dead" markets, and another 23% — bots that simply drive bets every 15 minutes without real prediction.
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💎 A large holder of Heart Locket gifts was scammed out of 135,000 TON ($173,000) — after his transfer, scammers sent "dust" from an address that almost perfectly matched his wallet — identical first and last characters.
Later, out of habit, he copied this similar address from his transaction history and sent the funds to the attackers himself.
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🪙 Investor bought Ethereum for $30 in 2015 and didn't touch it for almost 10 years — now his balance is about $295 000.
This week he already sold some of the coins for approximately $95,000.
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🇷🇺 The Russian Federal Tax Service has started sending preliminary requests to crypto exchangers — they are requesting not only sale and purchase agreements, but also the addresses of wallets from which crypto is sent.
There are two reasons: to check those who paid with cryptocurrency for large purchases (this may be considered a violation of currency control with serious penalties), and to build a database for potential cases against exchange owners under articles concerning illegal banking activities.
So far, there are few cases, but the practice is just forming.
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⛔️ BlackRock blocked withdrawals from its $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund after a surge in investor requests.
Of the $1.2 billion requested, the fund allowed only about 5% of assets to be withdrawn — because the money is invested in long-term corporate loans that cannot be sold quickly.
The market is already talking about a possible "domino effect": if the investor flight continues, the $2 trillion private credit sector could face serious stress.
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🪙 Utexo raised $7 500 000 led by Tether to launch USDT settlements on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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🇦🇪 Dubai Regulator orders crypto exchange KuCoin to immediately cease its operations in the UAE — the platform is unlicensed and must stop providing or promoting any virtual asset-related services to residents of the country.
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💤 A participant of the Ethereum ICO transferred coins worth $208,800 to a new wallet after 10.5 years of inactivity.
In 2015, he bought 401 ETH for $124 — now the value of the coins is $835,000, which is 6716 times the original investment.
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🪙 Short fund Culper Research opened a bet against Ethereum and related companies like BitMine (BMNR) — in their opinion, after the latest network update, Ethereum's economy has worsened, and activity and key indicators have begun to decline.
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🪙 SEC has finally settled the 2023 case against Justin Sun, Tron, and BitTorrent — the regulator's former leadership accused the projects of manipulating TRX and selling unregistered securities.
BitTorrent (now Rainberry) will pay a fine of $10 million.
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🚓 The FBI arrested John Dagitu in connection with the theft of crypto from wallets under the control of US authorities.
The suspect was identified after a public conflict with another hacker on Telegram, where he himself showed a transfer of $23 million between his wallets.
Dagitu was arrested on the island of Saint Martin during a joint operation by the FBI and the French Gendarmerie.
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🎛 Intercontinental Exchange (parent company of the New York Stock Exchange) invested in crypto exchange OKX at a valuation of about $25 billion.
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🪙 Western Union will launch the USDPT stablecoin on the Solana blockchain — the project is being implemented jointly with the Web3 platform Crossmint.
The main feature of USDPT is direct conversion into national currencies, users will be able to cash out digital dollars at 360,000 Western Union locations in more than 200 countries.
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☠️ A crypto investor was robbed of $23,600,000 — he was held under threat of violence and with weapons, forced to transfer funds to the attackers.
After the incident, the victim stated that he is leaving the crypto industry forever — the market is increasingly facing not only hackers, but also offline risks.
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😂 Cryptocurrency markets may be emerging from a multi-month slump, and the recent 44% drop may mark the end of this latest crypto winter — analysts
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🐋 Morgan Stanley (over $9 trillion in management) filed an application with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF.
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🚬 Tether, the issuer of USDT, announced strategic investments in Eight Sleep — a startup that develops AI-powered smart mattresses.
Do they know something?
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🦑 Kraken became the first crypto exchange to **receive** access to the core payment infrastructure of the US Federal Reserve System — meaning it can now directly handle dollar bank settlements without intermediaries.
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👻 FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) demands to tighten control over stablecoins and unhosted wallets.
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