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🎲 A large Ethereum holder with a balance of approximately $90 million decided to gamble — transferred funds to Hyperliquid and opened a leveraged long position of $132 million.
Currently, the position is down by approximately $22 million, with about $26 million remaining in the account, and the risk of liquidation persists.
Miscalculated, but where? 🦧
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🛡 Trust Wallet launched AI agents for crypto trading.
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🚓 In Russia they propose to look for corruption using the digital footprints of officials' children — from Roblox purchases to Counter-Strike 2 skins and crypto wallets.
The idea is that if a family's spending does not align with official income, they will have to explain the origin of the money — even if it is "hidden" in games or crypto.
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🖥 Russia has risen to second place in the world in terms of Bitcoin hashrate share — about 17%, trailing only the US with its 38%.
Together with China, these three countries control approximately 68% of all mining, which shows: mining is increasingly concentrating in a limited number of jurisdictions with cheap energy and suitable infrastructure.
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🇧🇹 Bhutan since early 2026 **withdrew** about $150,000,000 from Bitcoin reserves — in March alone, more than 1000 BTC were sent to exchanges.
Against this backdrop, the country dropped from the TOP-3 largest state holders to 7th place, and the current balance decreased to 4450 BTC.
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⛔️ The MilkyWay blockchain is officially shutting down — the team announced a gradual halt of all operations and the complete termination of the project.
The reason is simple — the product did not find sufficient demand in DeFi, and key ideas and the launch of new services failed to save the project's economy.
The irony is that as recently as 2024, major funds like Binance Labs and Polychain invested in MilkyWay — but even that didn't help.
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🇮🇪 It turned out that the found BTC did not "surface on their own" at all - the coins were confiscated by the Criminal Assets Bureau of Ireland with the support of Europol, having managed to gain access to one of the 12 wallets.
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📊 Hyperliquid recorded a record daily trading volume of $5.4 billion — driven by a surge in interest in commodity assets such as oil, gold, and silver.
The platform has effectively found a niche at the intersection of crypto and macro trading, where users actively trade derivatives amidst global news.
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⚡️ The Ministry of Finance plans to submit a bill on the legalization of the crypto market to the State Duma as early as next week, and the Central Bank expects to adopt it before summer.
If all goes according to plan, the rules of the game for crypto in Russia could be determined in the coming months.
Also, by April 30, individual entrepreneurs and individual miners must for the first time report on income for 2025. This is practically the first step towards full-fledged tax accounting for mining — now crypto income will have to be officially declared.
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🇷🇺 Foreign crypto exchanges are showing interest in the Russian cryptocurrency market — Ministry of Finance.
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🖥 Hut 8 company implemented a "Lego approach" to data centers — capacities can be quickly switched between mining and AI tasks depending on the market.
Essentially, this is a unified infrastructure that earns where it's currently more profitable — either on crypto or on AI computing.
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💸 Investor Clifton Collins after 10 years of searching finally found the seed phrase for a wallet with 6000 BTC (about $423.5 million) — and immediately sent 500 BTC to Coinbase.
Collins bought 6,000 BTC in 2011–2012 with money earned from growing and selling marijuana, and distributed them across 12 wallets.
He kept the private keys on paper, hiding them in a fishing rod case in a rented house in Galway, Ireland. After his arrest in 2017, the house was vacated, and the belongings were sent to a landfill.
Today's transfer indicates that at least some of these funds were not lost after all.
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👁 The Russian Ministry of Finance is considering the possibility of taking cryptocurrency under control through export earnings.
Authorities want to oblige companies to return to the country not only currency, but also crypto, which is increasingly used in foreign settlements.
In essence, this is an attempt to close one of the last channels for circumventing financial control.
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🪙 Solana Foundation introduced a privacy framework for institutions, where companies themselves choose the level of data disclosure — from pseudo-anonymity to fully private solutions.
This approach allows, for example, to confirm transactions without disclosing counterparties.
The foundation believes that flexible privacy will be the key to the mass influx of large capital into the crypto industry.
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📉 The crypto industry is experiencing a wave of layoffs: in a short time, Algorand, Gemini, OP Labs, PIP Labs, and Messari laid off about 450 employees.
Against the backdrop of a market downturn and AI implementation, demand for specialists has plummeted — the number of job openings on exchanges decreased by approximately 80% year-on-year.
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👁 Justin Sun announced the launch of an AI system for investigating crypto crimes — it analyzes large datasets and helps to find suspects faster.
According to him, cases worth more than $1 billion have already passed through the system, and about $100 million will be allocated for rewards for useful information and assistance in investigations.
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💸 Largest American miner MARA sold 15 133 BTC.
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🗽 American mortgage giant Fannie Mae will start accepting crypto-backed mortgages .
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👁 Nvidia faced a class-action lawsuit for concealing over $1 billion in revenue from GPU sales for cryptocurrency mining.
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🚬 A 32-year-old resident of the Murmansk region lost 3 500 000 rubles after falling into a double crypto scheme — first she was promised income on an "exchange", and then a "lawyer" offered to return allegedly frozen funds for a fee.
As a result, she transferred money for "taxes and fines" for several months until she realized that both stages were part of the same scam.
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💳 Mastercard will become a "network connector" between cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies after acquiring BVNK, — analysts.
It was previously reported that Mastercard is buying stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.8 billion.
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🇮🇷 Iran is currently one of the world's largest BTC miners, accounting for up to 6-8% of the global hashrate, — analysts.
At the same time, about 70% of the country's mining is carried out by the military.
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🇰🇷 In South Korea, a fraudster stole $12 000 000 from 158 people, laundered the money through crypto, underwent plastic surgeries and hid for almost a year, changing his appearance and phones.
But in the end, he was tracked down not by his face, but by his digital footprint — search history, device data, and surveillance cameras.
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🪙 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) again warned about scammers offering project listings on Binance.
According to him, 99.999% of such offers are a scam, even if the scammers claim they know him personally.
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☠️ Crypto detective ZachXBT stated that Russian OTC broker Alexander Khinkis may have been involved in laundering over $4 700 000 related to ransomware payments .
According to his data, the funds passed through crypto addresses and bridges between networks, and the broker himself communicated with him on Telegram, without hiding the details of the operations.
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🇷🇺 In Russia, a bill on the crypto market has been approved, but the ban on paying for goods and services with cryptocurrency within the country remains — payments can only be made in rubles.
The authorities explain this by the desire to keep payments under control and reduce risks, relying on the digital ruble (CBDC) as an official alternative.
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🪙 Ethereum has begun to prepare for a quantum threat — the foundation launched a dedicated research resource and allocated $2 million for developing protection against future attacks.
If quantum computers become a reality, current signatures could be vulnerable, so the network plans to gradually transition to post-quantum solutions by 2030.
The first changes are expected as early as 2026, meanwhile, tests and preparation of tools for the transition are underway.
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🪙 Binance launches an AI trading agent by subscription: the service combines several AI models and allows for automatic market analysis and transaction execution.
Essentially, it's an attempt to turn crypto trading into a managed "autopilot" for users.
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🇨🇭 In a Swiss banking dynasty a conflict erupted over cryptocurrencies: Marc Siez left the family group after a dispute with his father over the implementation of a crypto project, which was deemed too risky.
Now he is launching his own company, plans to accumulate 3500 BTC and create one of the largest Bitcoin platforms in Europe, and is also preparing a competitor to his former business with assets of about $2.5 billion.
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🚓 In the Ivanovo region, 15 group members were detained who organized illegal turnover of over 1 billion rubles by bypassing the banking system and converting funds into crypto.
According to the investigation, the group leaders controlled operations from several regions, receiving income exceeding 125 million rubles, and searches were conducted at residential addresses and offices, confiscating cash and documents.
Criminal cases have been initiated under articles on illegal banking activities, illegal circulation of funds, and participation in a criminal organization.
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