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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million stolen from a staking contract on BNB Chain, but the team promises compensation — from AFX, $24.15 million was withdrawn through a USDC bridge vulnerability and exchanged for 12,467 ETH, while mainnet trading continues to operate.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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🗽 American institutional investors have been selling BTC via Coinbase for about 900 hours straight — such prolonged pessimism has not been observed for 2 years.
Historically, similar extremes often appeared near a market reversal upwards — CryptoQuant.
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🚬 Satsuma Technology closes after failed Bitcoin bet — shareholders supported liquidation, the sale of the remaining 668 BTC for approximately $43 million and delisting from the London Stock Exchange.
In 2025, the company raised about $220 million to buy BTC, but after the market crash, its shares plummeted by more than 99%.
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🪒 Movement Labs, the developer of the Movement blockchain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US — one of the main problems was the sale of 66 million MOVE by a market maker immediately after listing, which triggered a sharp price drop.
Earlier, serious problems began for the Zilliqa project as well.
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🇷🇺 The State Duma adopted a law, which legalizes the cryptocurrency market in Russia and defines its main participants, key points:
🔵 Brokers and management companies will be able to act as intermediaries between investors and Russian or foreign crypto infrastructure. For this, they will need additional licenses.
🔵 Official crypto exchangers will appear, who will be able to exchange cashless rubles for cryptocurrency and vice versa. They will have to register and comply with capital requirements.
🔵 For most participants, cryptocurrency will only be available as an investment tool. It is forbidden to pay with it within Russia.
🔵 An exception is made for foreign economic activity and crypto exchangers — they will be able to use cryptocurrency for paying for securities, digital rights, and other digital currencies.
🔵 Only large and liquid assets with a long trading history will be admitted to Russian exchanges. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT meet these criteria.
🔵 Individuals will have to pass testing. For unqualified investors, the Central Bank will separately set the maximum size of a crypto portfolio.
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✊ SEC sued Mining Automatic and its founder over an alleged $22,000,000 scam — of the money from over 380 investors, only about 13% went to actual mining.
The rest was spent on marketing, personal expenses, and third-party projects. The regulator demands the return of funds, payment of fines, and a ban on the founder from selling securities.
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☠️ Wanchain bridge for Cardano was exploited — hackers withdrew NIGHT tokens worth $9,000,000.
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🤖 Vitalik Buterin «vibecoded for fun» a prototype of an anonymous bulletin board based on the private L2 network Aztec — the user deposits ETH, publishes a message without linking it to an address, and a local LLM checks the content according to rules from a smart contract. The experiment clearly shows what private Web3 services with automatic moderation could look like.
In parallel, Buterin wrote, that humanity is approaching the end of its era of complete dominance — he considers the true point of no return not the moment when AI replaces humans in most professions, but when it can independently sustain the development of civilization without human involvement.
The best scenario, in his opinion, is — an alliance of humans and AI, open competition between models, and the ability to slow down technological development in time.
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🇻🇳 From September 1 in Vietnam, for trading cryptocurrency through unlicensed exchanges and exchangers, they will be **fined** up to $1900 — for illegal token issuance and serious AML violations, fines can reach $7700, and assets may be confiscated.
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🪙 Tether has about two years left to adapt USDT to the requirements of the GENIUS Act — otherwise, starting July 2028, US exchanges and services will not be able to offer the stablecoin.
Previously, the company already virtually left the regulated EU market due to MiCA, and now similar pressure is starting in the US.
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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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📉 Algorithmic stablecoin Balance Coin (BLC) collapsed by more than 99% after the 42DAO hack for $915,000.
The lessons of Terra (LUNA) history still remain unlearned.
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🇰🇿 Former Coinbase CTO to open Network School campus in Kazakhstan — the project unites crypto entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to launch Web3 startups, and the country's authorities have already signed a corresponding memorandum.
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⚡️ Durov announced the launch of a new wallet — already this summer 💎 Gram Wallet will be officially integrated into Telegram, opening up to users instant transfers without commissions.
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⚡️ The Russian State Duma has finally adopted a law on cryptocurrency market regulation, which establishes rules for the operation of exchanges, brokers, exchangers, and other industry participants — the document comes into force on September 1, 2026 and defines the procedure for buying, selling, storing, and using cryptocurrencies in Russia.
The main beneficiaries of the new regulation, as expected, will be Russian banks and large financial organizations.
At the same time, withdrawing cryptocurrency into rubles through conventional methods will become more restricted, and operations with non-custodial wallets in Russian infrastructure will become less accessible.
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🪙 Ancient Bitcoin whale, who held 5000 BTC since 2013, sold the last 1000 BTC — the coins bought then for approximately $1,600,000 ultimately brought in about $434,000,000.
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🪙 An ICO Ethereum participant woke up, who in 2014 bought 2000 ETH for only $620 — now these coins are worth about $3,790,000, a growth of more than 6000x.
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🇮🇷 Iranian media group Explosive Media began accepting donations in TON, BTC, ETH, SOL, and USDT to support its content.
The group is associated with pro-Iranian propaganda, and experts warn that such transfers could fall under US sanctions restrictions due to possible ties to sanctioned organizations.
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☠️ The team Zilliqa (blockchain launched in 2017) announced that one of the partner exchanges had ZIL coins stolen from a cold wallet, after which the platforms were asked to temporarily halt deposits and withdrawals of the coin.
The amount and name of the exchange have not yet been disclosed — but it looks very much like another blockchain will soon be "on its way out".
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📊 Over the past 60 days, Bitcoin whales have accumulated 66,700 BTC, while mid-sized holders sold 77,800 BTC.
Large players continue to collect coins on dips, taking supply from those exiting the market.
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