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🪙 Tether for the first time in several weeks minted 1 000 000 000 USDT.
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🐋 Venture capital investments in crypto projects fell to a 6-year low — in the first quarter of 2026, they amounted to just $2.2 billion.
Most of the funds went to crypto financial services (24%) and DeFi (27%), while seed rounds accounted for only $166 million — approximately at 2020 levels.
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🇷🇺 Bitcoin is the most unprofitable asset against the ruble based on February results, according to the Bank of Russia.
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🎲 Polymarket user TROLLSK">turned $339 into $83 700 by guessing the number of Elon Musk's tweets for the week.
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💳 Mastercard is launching a new blockchain initiative for fast international transfers, which has been joined by Binance, PayPal, and Ripple.
The idea is simple: to combine the liquidity of crypto exchanges, PayPal's huge audience, and Ripple's cross-border settlement technology, to send money almost instantly and with fees below 1%.
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🏆 Changpeng Zhao's (CZ) fortune has reached $110 billion, according to Forbes.
This is $47 billion more than last year, thanks to Binance's valuation growing to $100 billion.
It is worth noting that CZ is now richer than Bill Gates.
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🇫🇷 In France, criminals disguised as police officers broke into the home of a family near Paris and forced the owner to transfer them about €900,000 in BTC.
Threatening with a knife, they waited for the transfer, after which they tied up, injured the couple, and fled. The woman managed to free herself and call for help — now the police are trying to track the stolen coins via the blockchain.
In 2025, the number of such attacks increased by 75%, and the total losses of victims reached $40,900,000.
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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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🪙 Ripple buys out stakes from early investors — the deal value is approximately $750 million, and the company's valuation is approximately $50 billion.
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🤖 Analysts Ledger discovered a vulnerability in smartphones on Android, using MediaTek chips.
With physical access to the device, hackers can steal seed phrases from crypto wallets in approximately 45 seconds.
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🇺🇸 The US Consumer Price Index (CPI), reflecting inflation, remained at 2.4%.
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🐳 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink believes that the world is too fixated on AI, whereas the real revolution is ahead — the digitization and tokenization of assets.
According to him, the transfer of everything — from money to securities — onto the blockchain could radically change finance and daily life.
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🗽 The US tax authority has started distributing a new crypto audit form, where investors are asked to disclose their entire cryptocurrency transaction history — from exchanges like Coinbase and Binance to wallets like MetaMask and Ledger.
More than 100 platforms must be noted, and the document must be signed under penalty of perjury — in fact, the tax authority is trying to reconstruct the user's complete crypto footprint for all years, and a missed account could result in a criminal case.
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⛔️ In the Aave protocol, the CAPO protection oracle failed, causing liquidations of wstETH positions totaling approximately $26,000,000 to erroneously trigger.
The team stated that the incident is related to the price jump limiting mechanism and promised to compensate affected users for their losses.
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🔮 Polymarket decided to fight suspicious bets and attracted for this Palantir — a company that makes analytical software for the US army and special services.
Now AI will track transactions in real-time and look for manipulations in sports markets.
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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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