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🇰🇪 Tether and Nairobi Securities Exchange will test USDT settlements, asset tokenization, and fractional securities trading.
The goal is to accelerate transactions in Kenya's $26.4 billion market and attract more local and foreign investors.
Previously, Tether invested $20,000,000 in the Argentinian neobank Ualá as part of expanding its presence in Latin America.
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🇹🇷 Turkey launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal betting — since the beginning of the year, 47,493 websites have been blocked and over 5,600 people have been detained.
The investigation also uncovered bank accounts and crypto wallets through which money was withdrawn — in one case, the network's turnover was estimated at approximately $4 billion.
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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia will allow margin trading in cryptocurrency and digital rights for both qualified and ordinary investors.
For unqualified participants, separate limits will be introduced, which the regulator will establish later.
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⚖️ The founder of BitRiver Igor Runets was accused of fraud of almost 1 billion rubles during the supply of mining equipment to En+ structures.
After the new accusation, the court sent him from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center for two months.
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🇪🇺 Major European banks and financial companies launched RL1 — a common regulated blockchain network for issuing tokenized bonds, funds, and stablecoins.
The network is already operational, uniting over 50 participants and has processed about €700 million in transactions.
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🚬 These crypto projects attracted $7.5 billion in investments, and in the last 24 hours earned only $1 306 — at this level of income, to return the invested funds it will take more than 15 000 years.
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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan launches a special mining zone Besqala Mining Valley in Karakalpakstan — its residents will be exempt from income taxes until January 1, 2035.
Instead, miners will pay the zone's administration a monthly fee of 1% of revenue.
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🇦🇷 In Argentina, two banking groups are preparing stablecoins, pegged to the peso, for corporate payments, treasury operations, and collateralized loans.
They are not launched by the banks themselves, but by related crypto companies — this way they circumvent the central bank's current ban on direct crypto services.
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📉 Stablecoin capitalization decreased by approximately $10 billion from its May peak and dropped to $300 billion — the largest drop since the Terra collapse in 2022.
However, this does not hinder their use, as in June alone, a record volume of transactions — $1.79 trillion — passed through stablecoins, which indicates the market's shift from simple storage and speculation to active payments.
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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation published rules for regulated cryptocurrency trading in Russia — exchanges will independently set trading modes and calculate prices, and depositories will account for crypto assets almost like securities.
For such depositories, a minimum capital of 50 to 250 million rubles is introduced, and their register will be maintained by the Bank of Russia.
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🪙 Circle bought almost 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM and stated that it has now become the largest holder of such patents in the US.
The technologies cover blockchain, banking, insurance, and cloud security, and they are planned to be used for USDC, the Arc network, and financial services for AI agents.
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📊 Annual realized volatility of Bitcoin dropped to historical lows — the market has become noticeably calmer than in previous cycles.
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🪒 In 2 years of Trump's second term, he earned more than in the previous 60 years, even though he refused the presidential salary.
The main sources were crypto, his personal memecoin, Trump Media, and the sale of licenses for his name.
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🚬 CZ explained, why Binance is in no hurry to buy the closing BitMEX and BitMart — after the deal one can get hidden backdoors and vulnerabilities left by the previous team.
He advised users to either store crypto themselves, or choose a large exchange with a serious margin of safety.
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📊 Historically, Bitcoin bear markets have lasted an average of 383 days — if we count the current cycle from the crash in October 2025, it is already the 297th day.
If history repeats itself, there are about 86 days left until the possible end of the bear market — approximately until October 23, 2026.
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🤖 Claude Mythos in 60 hours found a variant of an attack on the post-quantum signature HAWK and reduced the key recovery complexity from 2⁶² to 2³⁸.
A test key was obtained in a few hours on a single server, and the AI accelerated the attack on truncated AES-128 by 200–800 times. Full AES-128 and protected versions of HAWK are NOT YET cracked.
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🪙 Exactly 16 years ago Satoshi Nakamoto wrote on the BitcoinTalk forum the phrase that became iconic:
If you don't believe me or don't understand, I don't have time to convince you, sorry.
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🇮🇳 In India, a darknet drug syndicate Team Kalki was liquidated — investigators, with the help of Binance analytics and blockchain data, tracked cryptocurrency movements, found associated wallets, and froze the criminals' assets.
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☠️ Losses in crypto from security incidents in the first 6 months of 2026 exceeded $1 billion across 212 incidents, which is the highest figure for any six-month period — analysts Blockaid.
ARK Invest predicts that in the coming months, an increase in bankruptcies and sector consolidation is expected in crypto. Historically, such processes are observed close to a cyclical market bottom.
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⚡️ FSB declares Pavel Durov wanted internationally — he has been charged under Part 1.1, Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (facilitating terrorist activities).
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🇦🇪 The largest UAE airline Emirates launched ticket payment with cryptocurrency — the function is already available on the website and in the app.
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🇲🇲 Myanmar has adopted a tough law against online scams — managing fraudulent centers and cryptocurrency frauds now carries life imprisonment.
Kidnapping, torture, and forcing people to work in such centers are punishable by DEATH.
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🏦 VTB plans to enter the cryptocurrency services market and offer clients transactions with digital assets in the regulated Russian segment.
The bank expects to capture a significant share of the new market, which, according to VTB's estimates, could reach several tens of billions of rubles.
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🗽 The U.S. Senate temporarily postponed consideration of the CLARITY Act bill, focusing on other priorities, including sanctions against Russia.
Due to Senate procedural rules, only one controversial bill can be considered at a time, so the vote on crypto regulation has been postponed.
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🇺🇸 Joe Biden's son accused Trump of turning cryptocurrency support into a family business and "soiling" the entire industry.
As an example, he cited the TRUMP shitcoin, which collapsed from $75 to $1.36, as well as other crypto projects of the president's family.
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🪙 Strategy did not acquire and did not sell Bitcoin last week.
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💸 The head of Coinbase stated that in the future, AI agents will conduct more daily transactions than all humans combined, and cryptocurrencies will become the main financial infrastructure for them, allowing them to autonomously send and receive payments without the involvement of banks.
In his opinion, AI will not replace cryptocurrencies — both technologies will complement each other.
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⛔️ Over the last day, only 58 wallets withdrew funds from BitMart — totaling $805,000.
For the last 8 hours, the exchange has not processed a single withdrawal.
Decided to keep the money?
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☔️ Storj Labs, which previously raised $35,000,000, announced a voluntary financial restructuring, effectively initiating bankruptcy proceedings to resolve accumulated debts.
Currently, the company will continue to operate as usual, and after the process is completed, the company's co-owners will include management, the community, STORJ token holders, and investors.
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