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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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🇷🇺 Last year, scammers withdrew about 295 billion rubles of stolen money through cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges, — stated Sber analysts.
The bank says that about 900 such offline and online exchangers operate in Russia, through which stolen funds are quickly converted into "digital" and moved further.
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🪙 Ethereum Foundation launched Kohaku SDK — a tool that will allow wallets and applications to add private transactions to Ethereum without complex setup for users.
Developers will already be able to integrate Railgun, and later — Tornado Cash and Privacy Pools, the goal is to make privacy in Ethereum almost "default."
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🐋 A miner from the time of Satoshi Nakamoto transferred 2650 BTC worth $203 million to market makers FalconX and Cumberland — he still has about 6000 BTC ($462 million) on his wallets.
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📊 Current rates are now always at hand — directly in your Telegram chat list. Add the necessary channels to a separate folder or pin them in the general list to keep track of current rates.
🔵 Bitcoin — @RatesBTC
🔵 Ethereum — @RatesETH
🔵 TON — @RatesTON
🔵 USD/RUB — @RatesUSD
🔵 EUR/RUB — @RatesEUR
🇧🇴 In Bolivia, Bitcoin mining was launched based on an idle 127 MW gas thermal power plant — currently the farm consumes about 27 MW and produces 1.23 EH/s.
The project helps monetize unused energy amid the country's currency crisis, where, after the lifting of the ban on cryptocurrencies, virtual asset turnover sharply increased.
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🔮 On Russian markets, more and more often, «financial tarologists» and astrologers are appearing, who offer to choose stocks based on cards, stars, and «portfolio energy» — these are no longer just strange Telegram channels, such forecasts are leaking into investment communities and even business media.
The reason is clear — when the market is unstable, people want simple answers and a sense of control, even if instead of analytics they are sold a Tarot reading.Is Bitcoin in Capricorn today? 🤨
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🚬 A Kaliningrad resident believed a "crypto consultant" from a messenger and lost 6,300,000 rubles — while she borrowed some of the money from relatives.
On the fake platform, she was shown a growing income, but when she tried to withdraw funds, the consultant disappeared, and access to the site was lost.
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🪙 Vitalik Buterin wants the Ethereum Foundation to be not "the main boss of Ethereum," but a guardian of its basic principles.
The Foundation will chase hype and speed less, and focus more on security, privacy, openness, and censorship resistance.
The main idea is simple — Ethereum should become a shelter technology in the world of AI, surveillance, and control.
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🇪🇺 Contracts of European stablecoin issuer StablR were hacked, damage amounts to approximately $10,000,000 — EURR and USDR tokens lost their peg and dropped by more than 20%.
Earlier we wrote, that StablR is a pocket company of Tether.
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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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🔍 Scammers stole at least $400,000 via fake Uniswap ad links in Google Search.
Before connecting your wallet, always check the address through the project's official channels.
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☠️ Hackers launched a new Trapdoor attack against crypto developers — through infected npm, PyPI, and Crates packages, they steal seed phrases, wallet keys, GitHub, and SSH access.
The danger is that a developer might accidentally install a malicious package as a regular library — and lose access to their crypto assets and projects.
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☠️ A hacker attacked the Squid protocol on the Ethereum and Base networks — in a couple of hours, 86 Gnosis Safe wallets were hacked, and the damage exceeded $3,000,000.
All stolen funds were quickly converted into DAI by the attacker via Uniswap pools.
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🪙 Participant of the Ethereum ICO with 2000 ETH in his account woke up after 11 years of inactivity — in 2015 he bought the coins for only $620, now their value is $4,230,000.
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🇬🇪 Tether and the government of Georgia will launch GELT, the official state stablecoin.
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🇮🇷 Iran "in principle" agreed to abandon enriched uranium as part of a deal announced by Trump — reports NYT.
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🪙 The RWA market on Ethereum hit all-time highs on two metrics at once — capitalization and number of transactions.
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🪙 Top 5 spot Bitcoin ETFs already hold 1,239,336 BTC worth over $95 billion .
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🪙 What will Durov announce by June 1st? — FundX
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