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🇮🇷 To date, the US has confiscated $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Iran — stated US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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🛡 Trust Wallet integrated futures and prediction markets from Hyperliquid.
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🏪 The world's largest derivatives exchange CME is switching to 24/7 trading of crypto futures and options.
Because of this, the famous "CME gap" may disappear — price gaps in Bitcoin after weekends, which many traders have relied on for years in market predictions.
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🪙 Strategy staked deposited 411.5 BTC ($30.3 million) to Coinbase Prime — on Polymarket, the probability that Strategy will sell BTC before December 31, 2026, has reached 84%.
Earlier, Saylor hinted several times that the company will sell coins from time to time to maximize profit in BTC per share.
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⛔️ A malfunction occurred on the Sui blockchain — new blocks are not being produced for more than 2 hours.
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🔫 Ukrainian police organized an armed gang to hunt crypto entrepreneurs.
Current and former security officials kidnapped people, threatened them with weapons, and extorted millions of dollars.
One of the victims was forced to sign a fictitious "debt" for $5,000,000.
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🇰🇷 Samsung invests over $400,000,000 in the operator of the Korean crypto exchange Upbit.
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🪙 USDT lost its peg to the dollar on Coinbase yesterday, hitting a new 2022 low.
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🏦 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) together with the NY Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, JPMorgan, Visa, and Mastercard is launching tests of real cross-border blockchain payments.
Essentially, the largest banks and payment giants are starting to test how blockchain can work for international transfers with real money.
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⚡️ Polymarket wants to introduce mandatory identity verification (KYC) for traders amid regulatory pressure and sanctions risks.
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⚖️ The State Duma of the Russian Federation **adopted** in the first reading a draft law on punishment for illegal mining — this refers to cases where, as a result of such activity, large-scale income (over 3.5 million rubles) has been obtained, or damage of a similar amount has been caused to citizens, organizations, or the state.
Such crimes will be punishable by a fine of up to 1.5 million rubles, mandatory work for 480 hours, or forced labor for up to 2 years.
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🦅 Rostelecom and MTS began to eye the crypto market after regulation in the country was softened — the companies are exploring launching platforms and services for working with cryptocurrencies, from infrastructure and key storage to solutions for exchanges, brokers, and fintech.
According to Forbes, investments in such projects could amount to several billion rubles. If the plans are realized, the telecom giants will become competitors to banks and large IT companies in the crypto market.
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🪙 One of the most famous Ethereum evangelists, David Hoffman sold all his ETH and explained that he no longer sees the coin as the main growth asset of the ecosystem.
According to him, Ethereum may win as a network, but that doesn't mean ETH will necessarily win as an investment asset — more and more value is being taken by L2s, applications, stablecoins, RWAs, and TradFi.
The main thesis "ETH is the money of the internet" is practically closed for him; Ethereum has become a powerful infrastructure, but it has not turned ETH itself into global money.
Simply put, the network can continue to grow, but all the profit from this growth is no longer necessarily settling specifically in ETH.
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🧯 Someone sent 5 transactions totaling 107 BTC ($8.2M) to the burn address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2.
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🚬 An unusual lawsuit has been filed in New York — plaintiffs want to obtain through court the right to 39,069 long-inactive Bitcoin addresses, where approximately 3.7 million BTC may be stored, including wallets of early miners, Satoshi, and the Mt.Gox hacker.
The logic is as follows: if coins do not move for years, they are trying to be recognized as "abandoned property" by analogy with old bank accounts.
But even if the court agrees, it's almost impossible to claim these BTC — without private keys, the Bitcoin network cannot transfer coins to another owner.
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🇺🇸 The USA has for the first time permitted the launch of crypto "perps" on licensed platforms — previously, the huge market for perpetual futures effectively bypassed American investors.
Following the CFTC's decision, Kalshi and Coinbase were the first to announce the launch of such instruments for US clients.
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🤣 Claude Opus 4.8 was hacked just 7 minutes after its release — and it was done by the previous version, Claude Opus 4.7.
The old model managed to bypass the new one's security and extract answers it wasn't supposed to give.
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🗽 The U.S. government is gradually dumping crypto confiscated from FTX — over the past 2 days, authorities transferred approximately $5,300,000 in assets to Coinbase.
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☠️ DEX protocol DxSale was hacked for $7 300 000 — about 1400 LP pools were affected in BNB Chain, part of the funds has already been converted to BNB and started to be deposited to Binance deposit addresses.
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⚖️ A Google employee was charged with using internal company data for betting on Polymarket — according to US authorities, he earned approximately $1,200,000 with almost no risk, by knowing future Google Search trends in advance.
The engineer tried to cover his tracks using mixers and exchangers, but the FBI linked his wallets to his real identity — now he faces charges of fraud and money laundering.
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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation wants to strictly limit banks' investments in crypto, with a limit of no more than 1% of the banking group's capital.
When calculating capital, crypto assets will be considered almost maximally risky — with a weight of 1250%, because the regulator sees threats not only in volatility, but also in the possible blocking of such assets.
Client crypto will not fall under the limit, if the bank simply stores it as a custodian, but security requirements will still be strengthened due to the risks of hacks and loss of access.
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🖥 Mining company TeraWulf announced the acquisition of a site in Kentucky — the firm plans to build a data center here with a total capacity of up to 1 GW.
Like many other miners, TeraWulf changed its business profile from crypto asset mining to providing AI firms with infrastructure for training their models.
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🚬 Superfortune project accidentally sent an airdrop to a hacker — during a multisig transaction, the attacker swapped the recipient's address, and the tokens did not go to the project's official wallet.
Following the incident, the GUA token crashed by 75% in just one day.
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🇮🇷 The US carried out a new strike on Iran and imposed sanctions on the agency controlling the Strait of Hormuz, while Israel conducted one of its most powerful attacks on Lebanon recently.
Against the backdrop of escalation, the crypto market sharply declined — almost $500 million in long positions were liquidated in an hour, and Bitcoin fell below $72,900.
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🇮🇹 Banca Sella, one of Italy's largest banks with assets of €34 billion, became the first bank in the country with a license for storing and transferring crypto assets.
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⛔️ Up to $16,000,000 worth of Russians' funds could be stuck on international crypto exchanges after new sanctions by Great Britain against Russian exchangers and payment services.
Transfers related to Rapira, Aifory, and other platforms were hit — such transactions began to be marked as high-risk, and accounts on Bybit, Binance, Bitget, and other exchanges — sent for verification or blocking.
A separate risk is ABCEX (76 offices in the Russian Federation). According to data from sanction documents, the platform might appear there under a different name, so some users might not have understood that their transfers were connected to a sanctioned service. Now, such transactions might look like "dirty" funds to international exchanges, even if a person simply used a regular exchanger before.
It is worth noting that restrictions can be imposed even for transactions that went through these services several years ago.
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🫶 Base Network launched an MCP server for AI agents — now through Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor you can manage your wallet with simple text commands — make transfers, swaps, and work with DeFi directly in the chat.
At the same time, AI does not get access to private keys, and all transactions are manually confirmed by the user through the Base application.
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🇬🇧 The UK introduced new sanctions against crypto exchanges and payment networks, which, according to London, helped Russia circumvent Western restrictions, among them are Huobi (HTX), banks and companies from Georgia and the UAE.
The targets are not just individual services, but the infrastructure around A7/Garantex — assets are frozen, and British companies are prohibited from conducting payments and banking operations with them.
The main difference from old sanctions is that Britain is now trying to cut off not the storefront, but the "pipes" themselves through which money moved via crypto, OTC, and foreign intermediaries.
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🪙 Strategy spent $1.38 billion from its $2 billion reserves on the repurchase of convertible bonds maturing in 2029.
The company did not buy BTC last week, instead used most of the cash to early repurchase its debt below par value.
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🚓 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation wants to introduce a separate criminal article for illegal mining — this is not about a complete ban, but about schemes involving large-scale damage, electricity theft, and illegal income.
The IC claims that there may be around 190,000 illegal miners in the country, and the damage to the economy last year is estimated at up to $280 million.
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