#tradewar #opinion
🤔 «I’m worried about something worse than a recession,” - Ray Dalio

The founder of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater said that the global economy is balancing on the verge of a deep crisis.

Reasons:

✧ The threat of the collapse of the monetary system is the growing U.S. debt + trade conflicts.

✧ The world is moving from multipolarity to one-sided order, geopolitical tensions are increasing.

✧ The bond market can trigger a crisis worse than 2008 and the abolition of the gold standard.

✧ Donald Trump’s tariff policy - “the goals are clear, but the implementation is destructive”.

✧ The very value of money is under threat.

What the billionaire offers:

1. Reduce the budget deficit to 3% of GDP.
2. To restart trade relations with China.
3. Avoid aggressive politics and international conflicts.

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#om
🧐 Laser Digital claims that it has nothing to do with the recent decline in the OM token (original)

Rumors about the sale of tokens by Laser Digital are fake. The wallets attributed to the company don’t really belong to it.

The main share of investments in OM remains blocked. The company is not interested in price pressure or destabilization of the project.

++ C MANTRA DAO wallet transferred 38,000,000 OM ($26.96m) to a cold Binance wallet - etherscan

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🤔 Vitalik Buterin published a large-scale article on privacy - original

⊹ Confidentiality = decentralization: whoever has information has power. Without privacy, centralized control easily occurs.

⊹ Previously, privacy was ignored because there were no technical solutions (before the appearance of ZK-SNARKs). Now they are there - and you can’t ignore them anymore.

⊹ AI technologies increase the threat - they can collect, analyze and use our data at a new level. In the future - up to reading thoughts through neurointerfaces.

⊹ AI models ALREADY collect information from correspondence, browser history, biometrics.

⊹ It is beneficial for companies to know as much as possible about you in order to adapt prices and offers to your detriment.

⊹ Confidentiality limits the possibility of collusion - and thus protects honest processes.

⊹ Neuro interfaces increase the threat - you need powerful control and anonymity at the level of the device, encryption and verification.

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🇬🇧 JPMorgan launched blockchain payments in British pounds sterling (GBP) - The Block

The Bank provided its corporate clients with the opportunity of round-the-clock transfers to GBP through blockchain accounts of its Kinexys division (formerly Onyx).

Since its launch in 2019, the Kinexys platform has processed transactions for $1,500,000,000+.

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🇺🇸 The Kraken exchange will add the ability to trade stocks and ETFs listed in the United States (release)

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🇪🇺 From April 23, Google will tighten the rules of cryptocurrency advertising in Europe - original

Crypto exchanges and crypto wallets need to obtain a license in accordance with MiCA or CASP regulations to launch advertising.

+ there should always be a risk warning in the marketing company.

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❌🇰🇷 The regulator of South Korea obliged Apple to block KuCoin, MEXC applications and 12 other crypto exchanges (coindesk)

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🤝 State Street Hong Kong and Galaxy Digital have announced a partnership! (Original)

Goal: to launch the State Street Galaxy application for investing in both traditional assets and cryptocurrency and increase the volume of assets under management (AUM) to $5,000,000,000.

State Street Hong Kong — is a division of the financial giant State Street Corporation.

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#scam #breaking
⛔ CEO Emblem Vault had 75% of crypto assets stolen during a video conference in Zoom - CT

Zoom by default allows participants to request remote access. If this option is not disabled, any call participant can gain full control over your computer.

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#eth
🤔 Former Ethereum developer believes that Ethereum can play a key role in the decentralization of AI technologies (original)

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⚙️ There were interruptions in the work of some services on the Binance exchange - twitter

The reason is temporary problems in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center network.

Short-term failures in access or execution of operations are possible. The team is working on solving the problem.

UPD: KuCoin also reports a large-scale failure in the AWS network (original)

UPD: Binance has resumed withdrawals. All services are starting to recover.

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#om
😐 «The crash of the OM token is the result of betrayal within the Mantra team,» - OddEyeResearch

◽️A group of insiders controlled >90% of tokens - they managed volumes on CEX in a coordinated manner, which signals market manipulation.

◽️The manipulations went through Binance, while the price pumping coincided with large token inputs/outputs.

◽️Initially, the team wanted to release a new AUM token and attract $11,000,000 of investment.

◽️After the advice of a third party, they decided to use the old token for the pump, allegedly in order to increase the chances of listing.

Manipulations in 2023 and 2024:

- December 2023: pump from $20m to $100m FDV

- February 2024: pump from $200m to $1b FDV

In both cases, there was a sharp outflow of OM from the exchanges before the price rise and the return of tokens back after.

CEO of CryptoQuant: «Market manipulation is a crime.»

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📊 Matrixport: The inflow of stablecoins to exchanges has slowed down, but continues to grow - this signals the continued growth of the crypto industry.

Inflows are growing against the background of uncertainty in traditional markets (stocks and bonds) - perhaps the crypt becomes a less dependent (uncorrelated) asset.

Trade war and tariff disputes increase interest in cryptocurrency - its potential applications are becoming more attractive.

The general attitude is optimistic about the future of cryptocurrency.

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⛔️ TOP-2 South Korean exchange Bithumb temporarily suspended input/output #ZK due to volatility - announcement

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💬 OpenAI is developing its own social network - an analogue of Twitter (The Verge)

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🥳 OKX opens its headquarters in California! (Official announcement)

The exchange is already available to users in the United States.

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🤔 Top manager VanEck proposes to issue «BitBonds» - treasury bonds tied to BTC, to refinance $14,000,000,000,000 of U.S. government debt (twitter)

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🤝 Bleap and Mastercard announced a partnership to integrate stablecoin payments into a traditional financial system (The Block)

Bleap — is a non-custodial wallet with access to DeFi, multi-currency accounts, trading and exchange, created by former Revolut employees.

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🇰🇿 Binance exchange expands its product line in Kazakhstan (official announcement)

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🇰🇷 The presidential candidate of South Korea promised to carry out a large-scale reform of cryptocurrency regulation - by analogy with the approach of the Donald Trump administration in the United States - The Block

He also intends to invest at least 50,000,000,000,000 won ($35.1b) in 5 years in the development of quantum and AI technologies.

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