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🍏 Apple was sued in court over a fake wallet in the App Store — three users installed the fraudulent app and lost a total of $1,800,000 in BTC.
The plaintiffs claim that Apple advertised the store as safe, but failed to promptly remove the fake wallet, which the Sparrow developer had been warning about since 2024.
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🖥 Hydropower for the first time surpassed natural gas to become the main energy source for Bitcoin mining.
The share of low-carbon energy in the industry rose to 59.4%.
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🖥 The CEO of the largest public miner MARA stated that with the same amount of electricity, AI data centers earn significantly more than Bitcoin mining.
Therefore, even the largest miners are increasingly looking towards AI infrastructure.
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🇰🇵 North Korean hackers for the first time ROBBED their own Central Bank and the country's main foreign trade bank — the stolen money was withdrawn via crypto wallets and cashed out in China.
Especially ironic that former employees of state cyber units were behind the scheme.
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💸 BitMEX accused of appropriating 623 BTC ($40,000,000) — BKX Services and investor David Namdar allege that the exchange forcibly liquidated their positions and sent the remaining funds to the insurance fund.
The lawsuit was filed in a New York court on the day BitMEX announced its impending closure.
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🪙 Ripple introduced the Mint platform for the institutional adoption of the stablecoin RLUSD — the service allows clients to issue, redeem, and manage RLUSD via a unified interface or API.
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🖥 Mining pool Poolin, once one of the largest in the world, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Earlier, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition was filed by Movement Labs, developer of the Movement blockchain.
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🗽 The adoption of the CLARITY Act, which is intended to establish clear rules for regulating the crypto market in the US, is likely to be postponed until September.
Meanwhile, the head of the US Treasury, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and Mike Novogratz are urging the adoption of the law as soon as possible, warning that without it, the US risks falling behind other countries, and after its approval, institutional investors could massively enter the crypto market.
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💰 User lost $3 000 000, allegedly by signing a phishing EIP-7702 transaction.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan introduces special rules for large-scale miners — access to cheap electricity will only be granted upon compliance with strict requirements and transfer of part of the mined cryptocurrency to the state reserve.
The new regulations will come into effect on August 1, 2026.
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⛔️ Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is ceasing its operations permanently on September 23.
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🤣 The Verus bridge was hacked again for $7,540,000.
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☠️ B² Network and AFX collectively lost about $28,000,000.
B² Network had $3.86 million stolen from a staking contract on BNB Chain, but the team promises compensation — from AFX, $24.15 million was withdrawn through a USDC bridge vulnerability and exchanged for 12,467 ETH, while mainnet trading continues to operate.
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🇺🇸 The US crypto industry directly provides approximately 34,000 jobs, and its contribution to the country's economy in 2026 is estimated at more than $55 billion.
Taking into account related industries, the sector already supports approximately 232,000 jobs.
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📊 The market capitalization of native CEX tokens (OKB, KCS, CRO, and others) fell by 42% from its all-time high — from $182.4 billion to $105 billion.
Since the beginning of 2026 alone, the sector has lost approximately 31% amidst a weak market and reduced trading activity.
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🇺🇸 US seized $112,000,000 in cryptocurrency, linked to pig butchering scams where the victim is groomed for months, and then lured onto a fake investment platform.
Investigators untangled a web of transactions and identified points of withdrawal via centralized exchanges.
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🚬 BitMart announced its complete closure — starting July 26, the exchange will disable new registrations and deposits, and will completely cease operations on January 31, 2027.
Against the backdrop of this news, the BMX token crashed by approximately 50%.
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☠️ Morning in crypto no longer starts with coffee, but with another hack — Triple-A lost $10,000,000 due to a hacker attack.
It seems that daily exploits have finally become part of the market routine.
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🇪🇺 Cryptocurrency exchange HTX (Huobi) Justin Sun's is included in the European Union's sanctions against Russia.
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🦅 The Federation Council approved the law on legal purchase and exchange of cryptocurrencies in Russia —unqualified investors will be allowed to buy liquid coins up to 300,000 rubles per year through each intermediary, qualified — without limit.
Crypto exchangers will be included in a special register and obligated to hold no less than 15 million rubles of their own funds, while paying with cryptocurrency for goods and services will still be prohibited.
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🐄 In Brazil, they are already tokenizing even cows — a farm received almost $20,000 in credit, collateralized by ten animals with smart collars.
Now the bank sees the health and location of the "collateral" in real time — a cow has literally become a digital asset.
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🏦 Sber will launch a digital depository for cryptocurrency operations by December 1.
There were also rumors that Sber plans to launch its own crypto wallet.
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🇷🇺 Russian forex dealers want to give clients the opportunity to earn on changes in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without actually buying them — through CFD contracts.
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🪒 After the news that BitMEX will close permanently on September 23, the exchange's native token BMEX practically went to zero.
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📊 ETF futures became one of the main trends of 2026 — in 7 months, trading volume exceeded $116 billion, and the market grew by an average of 170% per month.
In July, 74% of all such trades went through Binance, and for individual instruments, the trading volumes on the exchange already exceeded those of the ETFs themselves.
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🤖 A mathematician from Nizhny Tagil asked GPT-5.6 "to make a breakthrough" — and together with the AI disproved a hypothesis that had been considered true for about 30 years.
He simply asked the model to continue the proof and went to drink coffee, while it collected arguments for 80 minutes at a time.
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🇨🇭Swiss bank BancaStato launches cryptocurrency trading.
Earlier, UBS and five major Swiss banks started testing a stablecoin pegged to the Swiss franc.
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🇯🇵 Japan may launch its first spot Bitcoin ETF as early as 2028 — the country's largest financial giants are already preparing products, and the potential market volume is estimated at 3 trillion yen ($18 billion) in just the first year after launch.
Previously, Japan officially reclassified cryptocurrencies into the category of "financial assets", effectively bringing their regulation closer to stocks and other investment instruments.
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🇲🇱 Trump is considering strikes on Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Mali — this could be the eighth US military operation of his second term.
For markets, this is another risk — a new escalation could once again hit risk appetite and increase pressure on stocks and crypto.
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☠️ SecondFI closes after June's hack, during which the project lost $2,600,000 — in August the team promises to launch a tool for refunding funds and securely withdrawing remaining assets to other wallets.
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