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🪒 In the last 24 hours, OP (Optimism) collapsed by 25% after the news that Coinbase is moving away from Optimism Stack and will develop its own solution.
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👻 According to Google Trends, the number of searches for "Bitcoin going to zero" ("Биткоин обнулится") has reached a maximum since the FTX crash in November 2022.
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🔌 Data centers and miners consume about 29.5 billion kWh per year, which accounts for 2.4% of Russia's total electricity consumption, — stated the power system operator.
Against the backdrop of the mining ban, analysts forecast a decrease to 26.15 billion kWh (2.2% of the total volume).
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🇦🇪 UAE Royal Family owns Bitcoins worth $454 000 000 through structures associated with the mining company Citadel Mining.
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⚙️ Ethereum Foundation outlined 3 priorities for Ethereum's development for the next year:
1️⃣ Scale — increasing the gas limit to 100 million, expanding L2 throughput, and preparing for parallel transaction processing.
2️⃣ Improve UX — implementing smart wallets at the protocol level and simplifying interaction between different L2s.
3️⃣ Harden the L1 — strengthening security, increasing censorship resistance, and preparing for quantum threats.
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🪙 Banking giant Bank of America 17 times increased its stake in BitMine — to 3.1 million shares ($86 million).
Recall that BitMine owns over 4,300,000 ETH, which accounts for 3.6% of the coin's total supply.
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💸 Coinbase reported that the Base network will gradually phase out the Optimism Stack and begin developing its own technology stack — this will allow for more flexible infrastructure development and ecosystem scaling, independent of Optimism's decisions.
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🪙 In January 2026, Binance once again became the largest spot liquidity center: trading volume grew to $409 billion, which is almost 5 times more than its closest competitor.
Additionally, the platform holds about 65% of stablecoin reserves among exchanges — $47.5 billion according to CryptoQuant, which is approximately 5 times more than the next player.
Total stablecoin reserves on Binance grew by 31% year-on-year, and the slowdown in outflows to $2 billion indicates liquidity stabilization and the preservation of market participants' trust.
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🦅 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is currently discussing systemic solutions for cryptocurrencies with the government — Nabiullina.
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🇷🇺 The Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved the law on the seizure of cryptocurrency in criminal cases.
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💎 Public gold mining company Elemental Royalties offered shareholders to receive dividends in Tether's tokenized gold XAUT.
This is the first such case among companies in the sector.
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🤖 The Moonwell protocol was hacked for $1.78 million due to a bug in the code that was generated by AI Claude Opus 4.6.
Due to a bug in the oracle's formula, the price of cbETH was displayed as $1.12 instead of $2200, which allowed the attack to take place.
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🪙 BitMine increased holdings to 4 371 497 ETH, which represents about 3.62% of the coin's total supply, with an average purchase price of $1998.
Over 3 million ETH worth $6.1 billion is in staking, free cash for further purchases — $670 million, just last week the company acquired 45 759 ETH for $91 million.
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🐳 Strategy acquired an additional 2,486 BTC for $168 million at $67,710 per coin.
Now the company's balance sheet contains 717,131 BTC, purchased for $54.5 billion at an average price of $76,027.
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🇸🇻 Despite numerous statements from the IMF that El Salvador has allegedly formally rolled back its Bitcoin experiment, the facts suggest otherwise — the country continues to daily buy Bitcoin and consistently increase its reserves.
Currently, 7 565 BTC have been accumulated.
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🗽 Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will launch 24/7 trading of crypto futures and options on May 29.
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🦅 Putin stated that cryptocurrency is increasingly used by terrorist and criminal structures as a means of settlement and obtaining illegal income, while new forms of digital crimes are emerging.
According to him, current legislation does not always keep up with the development of technology, therefore the Supreme Court should promptly develop unified approaches and, if necessary, initiate changes in laws.
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🕊 Hackers returned 321 BTC stolen from the South Korean prosecutor's office — these are funds that were stolen in August 2025 through a phishing attack.
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💸 Coinbase launched a new lending program, which allows US customers to borrow up to $100,000 in USDC using XRP, DOGE, ADA, and LTC as collateral.
Previously, the exchange allowed US users to borrow up to 1,000,000 USDC using cbETH as collateral — tokenized staked Ethereum.
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🚬 Nabiullina proposed a legislative ban on cryptocurrency operations outside the official regulated field — the proposal has already been sent by the Bank of Russia to the government for discussion.
"People sell cryptocurrency and in return receive money that was stolen by fraudsters from honest people. In fact, these cryptocurrency sellers become unwitting participants in a fraudulent scheme."
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🤖 OpenAI in collaboration with Paradigm introduced EVMBench — a tool for evaluating the performance of AI agents with smart contracts.
The solution allows testing how correctly models analyze and interact with contracts in the EVM environment.
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🎶 A video was published online showing a Chinese farm of 150 TikTok accounts — some devices continuously upload AI-generated videos, while others boost likes and comments to increase reach.
According to the author of the publication, such a scheme can generate about $37,000 per month from advertising.
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🇧🇾 The National Bank of Belarus stated that self-employed individuals will be able to receive their salaries in cryptocurrency.
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😂 Arthur Hayes sold 1000 ETH ($2M) via Bybit at an average price of ~$2000 — last August he bought Ethereum for ~$4200.
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🐋 In 2025, the BTC ownership structure significantly changed — companies, funds, and states actively increased their positions, while private investors reduced their share.
Against this backdrop, there was a redistribution of coins from retail to institutional players.
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🪙 For the first time in Ethereum's history, more than half of all coins are in the Proof-of-Stake staking contract.
This share will likely continue to grow, especially during market downturns when trading activity decreases.
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🇨🇳 Unknown company Laurore Ltd invested approximately $436,000,000 in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, having bought 8.78 million shares — this is its only asset.
The company is registered in Hong Kong, the owner is listed as Zhang Hui, while there is no public information about the business.
Against the backdrop of crypto trading restrictions in China, this may indicate a possible entry of Chinese capital into BTC through a regulated ETF.
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🗽 The Head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated that the bill on regulating the crypto market structure is "on the verge" of being signed.
According to him, the goal is to solidify the rules of the game for the industry and prevent regulatory rollback in the future.
He emphasized that the document is intended to be "finalized" in the near future.
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🇵🇱 The President of Poland has again vetoed the MiCA bill, which entails strict regulation of the crypto market.
"I will not sign a wrong law just because it was adopted again by the parliamentary majority. A wrong law adopted a hundred times still remains a wrong law. Poland must attract innovation, not push it away".
Earlier, Karol Nawrocki stated that MiCA threatens the freedoms of citizens, their property, and the stability of the state.
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🚬 The Bank of Russia wants to create a register of investment bloggers and introduce mandatory labeling of their materials.
To be included in the register, specialized education or an analyst certificate, work experience in finance and with instruments, membership in a SRO, and no violations will be required, and only bloggers from the list will be able to advertise financial services — if requirements are not met, both parties will be held accountable.
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