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💸 Coinbase will lay off 14% of its employees.
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🇦🇺 Coinbase Australia launches cryptocurrency support for pension funds — this is a large market, as in Australia, such funds hold about $758 billion in assets, and now part of this money can go into digital assets.
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🖥 Russia holds second place in the world for mining with a share of about 15.5%, but China is already breathing down its neck with 14% and closing the gap, — analysts.
Growth is hindered by expensive electricity, the BTC exchange rate, and the strengthening of the ruble — investors are leaving, and capacities are shifting to cheaper countries.
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🪙 Against the backdrop of news from Durov, in a day TON grew by 23% and burst into the TOP-20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, surpassing Litecoin and Avalanche.
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🪙 BitMine bought an additional 101 745 ETH last week — now the company holds approximately 5 180 000 ETH (4.3% of the total supply).
At the same time, Strategy did NOT acquire any BTC last week.
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☠️ AI model Grok was tricked through specially crafted commands and was made to transfer about $150 000 in DRB tokens — in essence, the attacker bypassed the security and convinced the system to send the money itself.
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🦅 Moscow Exchange from May 13 launches crypto indices for Solana, XRP, TRON, and BNB based on data from the largest exchanges — in the future, the lineup is planned to be expanded to 10 indices.
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🇮🇷 Reuters found out that Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, was founded by brothers from the influential Harrazi family, linked to the top echelons of Iranian power.
The exchange serves over 11 million clients and continued to operate even during the war and internet blackout, processing hundreds of millions of dollars, including suspicious transfers from sanctioned entities.
It was previously reported that the US confiscated nearly $500,000,000 in Iranian crypto assets as part of Operation Economic Fury.
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🇷🇺 The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation intends to accelerate the introduction of criminal punishment for illegal mining — the issue is actively being discussed with federal executive authorities.
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🎲 A former employee of Pump Fun live on air stated that the team itself launched bots that dumped coins right before they were listed on exchanges.
Essentially, while ordinary users believed in growth, insiders could take profits in advance — and some participants in the broadcast claim that this scheme is still operational.
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⛽️ In April, Polymarket fees reached $43,360,000 — this is approximately $520 million on an annualized basis.
The platform virtually dominates blockchain prediction markets — accounting for over 97% of all segment fees.
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🪙 Tether reported a profit of $1.04 billion for Q1 2026 — the company's reserve buffer grew to a record $8.23 billion, and the volume of assets in U.S. Treasury bonds reached approximately $141 billion.
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🌎 In Latin America, users are increasingly exchanging traditional money for "digital dollars" — in 2025, USDT and USDC accounted for 40% of all cryptocurrency purchases, while Bitcoin accounted for only 18%.
Due to inflation and the fall of local currencies, people buy stablecoins not for trading, but as a more understandable way to preserve savings in dollars.
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🗽 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has stated that he has long been a supporter of Bitcoin and considers it a tool for power projection. He believes that crypto is already moving beyond investment and becoming a factor of geopolitical influence.
The Pentagon is already working on how to use or mitigate this tool to maintain its advantage.
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📊 Bitcoin rose by almost 12% in April 2026 — Ethereum added 7.3% in price over the month.
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🗽 Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish is acquiring Equiniti for $4.2 billion to develop its tokenization business.
Bullish is a regulated cryptocurrency exchange for institutional investors, founded in 2020.
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🐋 Corporations in the first quarter of 2026 increased BTC purchases to a record — the total volume on balances reached 1.15 million BTC.
Despite the fall in the dollar value of portfolios, companies' interest in Bitcoin continues to grow.
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☠️ Six footballers of FC Sevilla are accused of a €24,000,000 crypto scam — they promoted the Shirtum project, where investors were sold NFTs for €450, which, according to the investigation, did not exist on the blockchain, and the application was never launched.
Concurrently, the team launched the SHI token — insiders received a large part of the emission, pumped the price, and exited liquidity.
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✈️ Pavel Durov stated that Telegram will replace TON Foundation, becoming at the head of the blockchain.
The ton.org website expects an update in the coming weeks, the focus will shift to developers and performance.
🌎 Western Union launched the USDPT stablecoin on the Solana blockchain.
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🪙 Tether minted 1 000 000 000 USDT.
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👻 AI is becoming the main threat to cryptography — it is capable of finding vulnerabilities in post-quantum algorithms faster than developers, believes Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko.
The problem is that such schemes themselves are still poorly studied — neither implementation errors nor weaknesses in mathematics are known.
As a defense, multi-signatures and protocol-level changes are proposed, while Ethereum L2 solutions, according to him, are not yet ready for quantum risks.
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🪙 The number of transactions on the Solana network for the quarter exceeded 10 billion for the first time.
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💎 Bitcoin is again above $80 000.
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💎 Tether in Q1 2026 bought over 6 tons of gold and now holds over 132 tons — this makes the company the largest owner of gold outside of banks and states; the metal is used as part of its reserves along with US bonds and Bitcoin.
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🗽 In the USA progress has been made in the dispute over whether users can be paid income for holding and using stablecoins.
The essence of the compromise is that payments will be allowed, but not for "just holding," but only if stablecoins are actually used — for example, in payments or transfers.
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💼 In April, the volume of venture investments in crypto projects decreased by 75% compared to March.
The market cooled sharply — funds became noticeably more cautious in new deals.
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💳 Spending on cryptocurrency cards has already reached $600,000,000 per month — with about 90% of transactions going through Visa, which is increasingly betting on crypto infrastructure, and not just traditional banks.
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🎲 American senators have officially forbidden themselves from participating in bets on prediction markets, such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
Unofficially, it's still possible to gamble through relatives — brothers, wives, and even grandmothers were not included in the list.
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💰 April 2026 became a record month for DeFi hacks — in 30 days, protocols lost approximately $635,000,000 in 28 attacks.
The main blows fell on Drift and KelpDAO — together they lost over $500 million.
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