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🇹🇷 In Turkey, charges were filed against 504 participants of a $850,000,000 money laundering scheme, where, according to the investigation, shell companies, POS terminals, exchange offices, and cryptocurrency operations were used.
Part of the funds, prosecutors allege, were converted into cryptocurrency and withdrawn abroad — the organizers face up to 34.5 years in prison.
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🇹🇭 Thailand tightens the screws around crypto — from Q4 2026, stablecoin operations, primarily USDT, will come under enhanced control, and for deposits from 5 million baht ($150,000), the source of funds will need to be confirmed.
After the introduction of similar rules for withdrawing large sums, the volume of such operations has already fallen by 35%.
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😂 Musk and Altman once again had a public spat — Elon called the head of OpenAI "a new level fraudster," and in response, he reminded that it is Musk who sells investors the idea of rapid data centers in space.
Then Altman added that Elon's new obsession became an excellent benchmark for GPT-5.6 — a typical conversation between the world's richest man and the head of one of the main AI companies.
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☠️ Hedera blockchain suffered an exploit — assets worth $5 250 000 were transferred from the Hedera mainnet to Ethereum.
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🤡 In the US, prosecutors accused an already convicted money launderer of stealing $290,000 in cryptocurrency from a Kraken account, which had been seized by the court.
The irony is that, according to the investigation, he committed the new theft while already behind bars.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the tenge for use in international settlements, the head of the National Bank stated.
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😱 Ethereum activity growth may be deceptive — transactions have increased, but the median volume in dollars has fallen by 77%, and large capital is barely entering.
The market is currently being driven by small transfers and overheated derivatives — funding rates on Binance have surged by approximately 2400%.
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⛩ Metaplanet wants to launch Bitcoin-backed lending instruments in Japan — the company plans to create a 24/7 BTC lending market, which is not yet available in the country.
Metaplanet currently holds 43,000 BTC on its balance sheet.
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🪙 Former Meta engineer sold all bitcoins, stating that the market thrives on attention, and AI has completely captured it now.
In the long term, he still believes in BTC, but is waiting for a strong drop to buy in cheaper.
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🐋 JPMorgan believes that the main threat to Bitcoin is not potential large sales of Strategy, but the transition of banks and large institutions to closed blockchains.
If tokenization and payments move to private networks, public blockchains could lose activity, liquidity, and capital, which would ultimately hit the entire crypto market, including BTC.
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🇰🇿 CZ showed one of 5000 points of sale in Kazakhstan, where crypto can already be accepted via Alatau City Bank POS terminals powered by Binance Pay.
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⚖️ In Nizhny Novgorod, the investigation into a scheme for underground online casinos has been completed — according to the investigation, the 22-year-old defendant processed over 113,000,000 rubles through cards, cash, and crypto exchangers in 5 months, keeping a percentage for himself.
The case is being sent to court, and the accused himself is under house arrest.
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🇷🇺 Rosfinmonitoring will gain control over large crypto payments in foreign trade transactions — information on transactions for an amount exceeding 10,000,000 rubles will automatically **be sent** to financial intelligence.
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☠️ User lost 999 999 USDT, by signing a phishing transaction in the Ethereum network.
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🇲🇾 Malaysian authorities conducted 3049 raids against illegal mining, seizing 75,578 mining rigs and detaining 629 people.
According to data from the authorities, due to electricity theft, the damage to the national power company exceeded $1 billion.
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☘️ It is reported, that a small Bitaxe miner with a hashrate of about 1 TH/s alone found Bitcoin block #957382 and received the full reward — 3.1382 BTC (about $200,000).
Such an event is almost unbelievable — instead of large mining farms, luck went to a home device the size of a small computer.
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🪙 Ripple could have disappeared after the SEC lawsuit in 2020 — CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that the company seriously considered shutting down the business and distributing XRP reserves among shareholders.
Ultimately, Ripple decided to fight in court — the proceedings lasted more than four years and cost approximately $150 million, but the company preserved its business and hundreds of jobs.
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🤖 Anthropic tried to charge a free tier user $16,600,000 with zero API usage — only the card limit saved them, the bank declined the payment, and similar complaints have already appeared from other users.
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🤖 Vitalik Buterin believes that the AI debate boils down to two different scenarios — if superintelligence emerges in the coming decades, it is logical to slow down AI development; if it's just another technology, restrictions will only strengthen the power of large companies and states.
He himself does not venture to guess which path will prove real, so he suggests preparing for both — developing open source, cryptography, secure hardware, and other technologies that will be useful in any future.
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💸 According to Lookonchain, Abraxas Capital withdrew 3,931 XAUT worth $16 million from exchanges, and another whale, after a three-year hiatus, took 953 XAUT worth $4 million from Binance.
Overall, the XAUT outflow from exchanges for the day reached $17.4 million — approximately 16 times higher than the usual level, which looks like a significant accumulation of tokenized gold by large players.
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☠️ ZachXBT reported on the hack of one of the earliest Solana whales — an investor who received coins during the genesis distribution had 180,900 SOL stolen, worth approximately $14,200,000.
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🪙 Circle received approval to create a US National Trust Bank.
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💎 BTC to gold ratio dropped to a minimum since 2010 — previously, similar oversold zones coincided with major BTC market bottoms and subsequent recovery.
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🇪🇺 After Binance restrictions in the EU, around 70% of withdrawn funds went to personal wallets and only 30% — to MiCA-licensed platforms.
Exchange head Richard Teng believes that regulation backfired — instead of moving to controlled platforms, users massively chose self-custody.
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🪙 Ethereum Foundation launched a "fleet of AI agents" that simultaneously check Ethereum code, cryptography, and network components — the system has already found a real vulnerability in libp2p, allowing to remotely crash a node.
But the main discovery for the team was something else — AI easily generates hundreds of convincing attack versions, and the real challenge is to filter out false positives, reproduce the bug, and prove that it is indeed accessible to an attacker.
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🖥 MARA Holdings buys a 490-hectare site in Texas for $600,000,000, to build a data center there for AI and Bitcoin mining — the company expects to reach 1 GW of capacity by October 2027, and after closing related deals, bring the total energy portfolio to 4.8 GW.
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🇺🇸 Bank of America reports on the "generational redistribution" of cash flow — for hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, free cash flow drops sharply, while for chip manufacturers — on the contrary, it soars.
Simply put, money in the AI boom is increasingly shifting away from those who build data centers to those who sell them hardware.
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🚓 Interpol reported on a global operation First Light 2026 against crypto fraudsters — in 97 countries, 5811 people were arrested, 31,014 bank accounts were blocked, and assets worth $293,000,000 were seized or frozen.
Among the cases are romance scam schemes with money laundering via crypto, call centers with online casinos, and even a fake "police station" where victims were persuaded to transfer money to "safe accounts".
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💤 A Satoshi-era whale that had been inactive for 16 years woke up — he moved 40 BTC, bought for a pittance in 2010, and the realized profit amounted to $2,540,000.
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⛔️ Another crypto project ceases operations — the founder of the DeFi project Zapper announced the closure of the service after 7 years of operation, at its peak, the platform served over 2,000,000 active users per month.
Recently, Ctrl Wallet also announced its complete cessation of operations.
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