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🌎 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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🪙 Tether wants to unite a full-fledged crypto corporation under one brand — Twenty-One Capital (XXI) plans to merge with Strike and mining company Elektron Energy, ultimately XXI could become not just a public BTC holder, but an ecosystem with treasury, mining, lending, financial services, and access to capital markets.
The terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed, but the company's balance sheet already holds over 43,500 BTC.
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🇨🇦 The Canadian sovereign wealth fund bought shares in Strategy for $219,000,000.
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🪙 Tether minted 1,000,000,000 USDT.
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🇮🇷 The US announced the confiscation of nearly $500 million in Iranian crypto assets as part of Operation Economic Fury.
At the same time, Washington is freezing Iranian bank accounts, foreign assets, and luxury real estate, and threatening secondary sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil.
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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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⛽️ MARA, the largest U.S. miner, buys energy company Long Ridge for $1.5 billion to get its own 505 MW gas power plant in Ohio.
On this basis, the company wants to build not only mining operations, but also a digital infrastructure center for AI and IT clients — meaning it transforms from a miner into an energy player.
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🦋 Crypto Bot is 5 years old today — during this time, it has grown from a simple tool for crypto checks into one of the most convenient services for working with crypto directly in Telegram.
Today it includes checks, P2P, exchange, payments via Crypto Pay and other features that users and projects use daily.
Over these five years, the market has repeatedly gone through hype, drops, and new cycles, but Crypto Bot continued to develop and remain an understandable entry point into crypto.
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☠️ Wasabi Protocol was hacked for $5,000,000 across the Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast networks.
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🌎 The next 1 billion users will come to crypto not for trading, but through real-world use cases — payments, income-generating products, asset tokenization, and AI.
The market is already showing a completely different scale: the supply of stablecoins has exceeded $320 billion, and the monthly on-chain transaction volume has reached 7.2 trillion.
According to Binance, this shift toward practical application could increase crypto's user base to 2 billion by 2030.
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Ⓜ️ Meta launches crypto stablecoin payouts for creators.
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