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💸 Elon Musk will launch next month the payment service "X Money" for the general public.
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🚓 In Krasnodar, a participant in a scheme was convicted who deceived people who had already lost money in the crypto-financial pyramid Cashbery.
The fraudsters called victims and promised to "return investments," but demanded that taxes or insurance be paid first — thus they managed to swindle over 10,000,000 rubles.
The court upheld the verdict: the participant in the scam will spend 3.5 years in a penal colony.
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🇷🇺 In Russia, mining farms and data centers may be switched to a "take-or-pay" electricity payment scheme — starting from 2027, facilities with a capacity of 670 kW or more will pay for almost all declared capacity, even if they actually use less.
Authorities believe this will help avoid building unnecessary power grids, but market participants warn — data center costs could increase 4–5 times, and some miners will switch to their own generation or curtail expansion.
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⚙️ Vitalik Buterin wants to simplify Ethereum staking to "one click" with a simplified distributed validator system — the technology allows one validator to run on multiple servers, and if one fails, another automatically takes over its work.
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🛢 Oil trading volume on Hyperliquid surged from $21 million to over $1.2 billion after strikes on Iran.
Traders flocked to on-chain oil futures en masse, reacting to the price surge and supply disruption risks while traditional markets were closed.
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🪙 In Ethereum a new standard ERC-8183 has emerged, which allows AI agents to send conditional payments to each other — funds are blocked and transferred only after a task is completed.
This is one of the basic elements of the future "agent economy", where programs will be able to automatically order services and settle payments among themselves.
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🪙 The 20-millionth coin was mined on the Bitcoin network, leaving only 1 million BTC until the maximum limit of 21 million.
According to the current issuance schedule, the last BTC will be mined around 2140.
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🇪🇺 Coinbase launches crypto futures trading in 26 European countries.
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🛰 Company Starcloud, supported by Nvidia, plans to start mining BTC directly in orbit after launching a new satellite this year.
The project involves placing miners on solar-powered satellite data centers — if the experiment proves successful, space mining could become a new industry.
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🗽 The US Treasury wants to give crypto exchanges the right to freeze user funds without a court order, if they seem "suspicious" — while law enforcement obtains a warrant and conducts an investigation.
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🌍 How the world economy has changed over the last few centuries.
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🪙 Annual inflation of Ethereum is only 0.81%, which is one of the lowest among top cryptocurrencies, surpassing Bitcoin (0.82%) and significantly lower than Solana (4.3%).
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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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🇹🇭 In Thailand a major crypto market crackdown has begun — local platforms have frozen over 10,000 accounts suspected of money laundering.
This is part of a large-scale campaign against so-called mule accounts — front accounts through which stolen or illicit money is circulated.
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🛡 Trust Wallet launched automatic protection against address poisoning — a fraudulent scheme in which attackers provide users with fake addresses similar to their own.
The new feature will automatically detect and block such suspicious addresses to reduce the risk of accidentally sending funds to scammers.
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🪙 Built-in privacy tools may appear in XRP — the ecosystem is discussing amendment XLS-372, which will add confidential MPT transactions, hiding transfer details.
Developers want to embed privacy directly into the protocol, but at the same time maintain the possibility of regulatory oversight 🚬
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🏦 The largest US banks are preparing a lawsuit against the regulator Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over simplified licenses for crypto and fintech companies.
In their opinion, the new rules allow such firms to operate almost like banks nationwide, but without the same strict oversight — which banks call a dangerous "regulatory loophole."
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🌪 The US Treasury for the first time recognized, that crypto mixers are used not only by criminals, but also by ordinary users for financial privacy.
For now, these are just recommendations, but they could form the basis for future regulation.
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🐋 Strategy bought 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion, the average purchase price was $70,946 per 1 BTC.
Now the company's balance sheet holds 738,731 BTC.
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🌍 Sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries invested about $66 billion in artificial intelligence and digitalization in 2025 alone.
For example, Mubadala fund invested $12.9 billion in AI and launched the MGX fund with a target capital of $100 billion, while Abu Dhabi authorities are already using AI to analyze private lending deals worth $126 billion.
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💸 Co-founder Ethereum Jeffrey Wilcke over the weekend transferred 79 176 ETH ($157 million) to the Kraken exchange.
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🛢 Brent crude jumped above $115 (+25%) in a day, while precious metals went down — Donald Trump stated that the price jump is temporary and oil will "quickly become cheaper" once the Iranian nuclear threat is eliminated.
Meanwhile, G7 countries will discuss jointly releasing oil reserves from storage.
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🇷🇺 The share of women among Russian cryptocurrency users reached 29% — study.
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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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