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🇺🇸 The U.S. government transferred cryptocurrency worth $470,000,000 (BTC, WBTC and USDT) to Coinbase Prime.
The funds are linked to confiscated assets from the Bitfinex and FTX/Alameda cases.
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🤣 Kyrgyzstan liquidated its stablecoin USDKG due to sanctions.
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💸 Stablecoin USD1 of Donald Trump's family is being prepared for mass online payments.
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⛔️ L2 projects continue to die due to unviability — this time Abstract, an L2 blockchain on Ethereum, announced the closure on December 15, 2026.
Previously, the closure was announced by L2 project Blast.
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📶 In Cardano launched the CIP-0113 standard for regulated tokens — issuers will be able to embed KYC/AML, block transfers and, if necessary, freeze or seize assets.
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🪙 Ethereum for the first time conducted an atomic transaction between L1 and L2 on the mainnet.
Now related actions on two layers can be executed as a single unit — either both succeed or both are reverted together, which significantly simplifies cross-chain operations.
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🤖 Vitalik Buterin believes that AI will gradually replace traditional interfaces in blockchain applications.
According to him, a local AI agent wrote him a script to update an ENS hash in 5 minutes, and such complex actions without traditional buttons and menus will eventually become the norm.
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🪙 Exactly 17 years ago, the first known Bitcoin to dollar exchange rate appeared — back then for $1, 1,309 BTC were given.
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🇰🇷 South Korea became the largest crypto market in East Asia with a turnover of approximately $449 billion per year, almost doubling Japan.
The growth was mainly driven by retail, and the most popular thematic tokens were AI-related assets.
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🇺🇸 US Treasury backed down from proposed rules that were intended to tighten control over non-custodial wallets and crypto mixers.
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🏦 Sber has applied for digital depositary status.
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🇯🇵 Japanese Metaplanet announced that it sold 10,000 BTC in Q3, and then repurchased 11,000 BTC.
As a result, the number of coins on the company's balance sheet grew to 44,000 BTC.
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🍂 October has long been considered one of the best months for Bitcoin — in BTC's entire history, it has only closed it in the red three times.
LookOnChain notes that it was often in October that the strongest market rallies began, so seasonality is once again playing on the side of the bulls.
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🇧🇷 Binance tightens rules for users from Brazil — from November 1, for international crypto transfers, the purpose of the operation and the recipient's data will need to be specified.
Without this information, withdrawals may not be processed, and incoming transfers may be delayed or returned.
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🪙 NYT released a large profile of CZ. It quickly becomes clear from the text — Changpeng Zhao has long ceased to be merely the founder of Binance. He now lives at the intersection of crypto, immense capital, ruling families of the Persian Gulf, and high politics.
🔵 CZ has firmly established himself in the UAE. He lives in Abu Dhabi, owns real estate, uses security, a yacht, and private aviation. Forbes estimates his fortune at over $100 billion, although Zhao himself says the real figure is more like $10–30 billion.
🔵 His relationship with the Emirates developed very quickly. According to the NYT, he was granted a Golden Visa in 2021 in less than 12 hours, and Binance later participated in shaping local crypto regulation.
🔵 UAE citizenship proved particularly valuable for CZ. He himself directly stated that an important factor was protection from possible extradition to the US — at that time, the American investigation into Binance was already gaining momentum.
🔵 After the deal with the US Department of Justice, Binance paid $4.3 billion, and CZ received four months in prison.26 minutes after his release, his private jet was already flying towards Abu Dhabi — a detail that well conveys the scale of the man and his current position.
🔵 The most controversial part of the profile is the chain connecting Binance, the UAE, and the Trump family. The MGX fund invested $2 billion in Binance, and the transaction went through USD1 from World Liberty Financial. In parallel, the UAE sought access to American AI chips, Binance wanted a softening of restrictions, and CZ — a presidential pardon. Later, the US allowed chip supplies, and Trump pardoned Zhao. All parties deny that these events were related.
🔵 CZ formally left Binance, but he is far from gone. He remains the largest shareholder, Yi He is still by his side, and Zhao himself increasingly acts as a crypto-diplomat — meeting with presidents, sheikhs, and advising states.
At the end of the profile, there's a detail that well explains his attitude towards everything happening — CZ is seriously interested in simulation theory and loves to repeat that life should be taken more simply.
“It's just a game.”
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💰 Researcher Ethereum Foundation Justin Drake warns — in just a few months AI could learn to brute-force private keys to some crypto wallets.
At risk are primarily old addresses, from which transactions have already been sent, so large holders are advised to switch to new ones in advance.
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🇰🇿 Tether and the National Bank of Kazakhstan will explore the issuance of a stablecoin pegged to the tenge, as well as the tokenization of real-world assets.
A separate pilot is planned to be launched in Alatau, potentially on the Hadron platform.
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🚬 This is Jeff Yan — founder of Hyperliquid, a Harvard graduate, former quant trader and winner of the International Physics Olympiad.
His team of 11 people, according to available estimates, earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year, while Yan himself lives quite modestly — if not counting constant security.
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🪙 Conduit sued Tether over the freezing of 2,760,000 USDT, which the company has not been able to access for over a year.
Conduit demands the return of the funds and payment of at least the same amount in compensation.
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🏦 Sber first in Russia received the status of a digital depositary and from December 1 will be able to account for digital currencies and rights to them directly in its familiar services.
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🇰🇬 In Kyrgyzstan, Binance has launched Earn — now stablecoins can be deposited almost like a regular deposit and earn interest.
For certain products with KGST, they claim up to 14% annually, and with USDT — up to 35%, but rates may change.
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🪙 Binance integrates AI directly into the exchange and launches Binance Intelligence.
Binance AI will itself collect important market movements and explain them, while AI Pro will allow you to define a trading strategy using plain text, test it and only then launch it — with feature availability depending on region and jurisdiction.
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🇹🇷 Ripple is actively entering the Turkish crypto market with a turnover of almost $200 billion per year — the company promotes there RLUSD and infrastructure for crypto storage through Garanti BBVA, hoping to capture demand for digital dollar against the backdrop of a weak lira.
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🪙 Solana launched Solana DvP — an open-source tool for settling institutional transactions in seconds instead of days.
JPMorgan is participating in the testing, and is also assisting the project with data.
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☠️ ZachXBT disguised as a client infiltrated a Chinese money laundering network linked to Lazarus Group, and to gain trust transferred his own $349,000 through it losing about 5% on each transaction.
As a result, he obtained data on the movement of stolen funds, found a cluster of over $12 million, and Tether later froze the associated 442,000 USDT.
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🪙 Strategy bought more 334 BTC last week.
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🪙 From Ethereum staking, they now want to withdraw a record 786,000 ETH — approximately $3.4 billion at current prices.
But everyone won't be able to leave at once — the network releases validators gradually, so even such a large exit extends for almost two weeks.
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💤 A Bitcoin whale that had been dormant since 2013 has awakened — it sent test transfers of just $43 from two old wallets (1, 2).
They hold 1346 BTC, worth approximately $115 million — these coins once cost only $240,000, meaning they have grown almost 480 times.
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☠️ A user gifted scammers $305,000 in DAI, by copying the scammer's wallet address from transfer history.
Another crypto user lost 12,041 LINK ($170,000), by signing a phishing approval back in August 2025.
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☠️ On the Base network, an unknown wallet lost 1,783 wstETH — about $6,000,000, the funds have already gone to the attacker's address.
Which protocol the money belonged to and what exactly caused the hack is currently unknown.
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