🇲🇽 Mexican authorities busted an underground crypto-mining farm in Tlaola, in the Sierra Norte of Puebla: a transformer, 80 medium-voltage terminals, 8 satellite internet antennas, and around 300 GPUs illegally hooked up to the power grid of the Necaxa hydroelectric dam (CFE).

The operation was carried out by the Attorney General's Office, the Navy, and state police. Crypto mining itself is legal in Mexico - the probe centers on power theft, with money laundering also under investigation.

Experts note similar schemes are used by the Sinaloa Cartel, converting fentanyl profits into crypto through underground Chinese exchange houses.

Illegal grid connections cost CFE 13.8 billion pesos between January and July 2024 alone.

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SpaceX set to send DOGE-1 to the Moon this week
The Geometric Energy mission will send a $DOGE-funded satellite into lunar orbit, marking a major step in Dogecoin’s push beyond Earth.

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⚖️ DOJ moves to seize $61 million in crypto allegedly linked to Iran’s military

The action comes as a major crypto tax bill also heads toward a House committee vote, putting enforcement and digital-asset legislation in focus at the same time.

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💰 Ripple integrates $XRP and $RLUSD payments into Stripe and Tempo’s AI agent

Ripple has expanded its XRP Ledger developer kit adding support for the Machine Payments Protocol and Open Wallet Standard, allowing AI agents to make automated payments for data, computing and other online services using XRP or RLUSD.

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🤝 S&P Global acquires crypto security giant.

The company has reached an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin, whose solutions are used to protect major stablecoins, tokenized funds, and DeFi protocols.

More than $37T has flowed through the infrastructure based on OpenZeppelin Contracts, and the company has conducted over 900 audits, discovering more than 10,000 vulnerabilities before product launches.

S&P Global plans to use OpenZeppelin's technology to assess risks in smart contracts and other on-chain infrastructure as traditional finance moves onto the
blockchain.

The deal amount is not disclosed.

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🤑 Equitable Holdings introduces a Bitcoin-linked investment option inside a registered index-linked annuity.

The product marks the first known $BTC linked option offered within this type of annuity, giving retirement investors a new way to gain exposure to Bitcoin through an insurance-based investment product.

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🟠 VanEck's Matthew Sigel says Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by next year

Speaking to CNBC, VanEck's head of digital assets research pointed to U.S. government debt and fiscal sustainability concerns as factors supporting his outlook for $BTC.

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🤑Bitcoin's market cap climbs past Tesla and Samsung

Bitcoin ($BTC) now has a market capitalization of $1.711 trillion after trading above $85,000, ranking ahead of Tesla at $1.438 trillion and Samsung at $1.296 trillion

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📈 WBT HITS A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH - ~$87,91

Up more than 50x from its 2022 debut ($1.62) and +18% above the August record of $73

📊 Market cap ~$10.3B (#14), 24h volume ~$180M

🔥 The entire supply is unlocked, while the burn mechanism aims to reduce total supply to 200M WBT

WBT has been built over four years with no relaunch or tokenomics restructuring

⚠️ Not financial advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile.

US seizes bank accounts tied to a Tether-linked payments firm, FT reports.

The firm, Capstone, is accused by the DOJ of illegally moving hundreds of millions of dollars for Tether and Bitfinex through EQIBank, a small Caribbean bank.

Capstone allegedly opened US bank accounts while presenting itself as a tech company, then used those accounts to send payments to hundreds of individuals and entities.

About $84 MILLION has now been frozen from Capstone accounts at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan.

FT reports Capstone was also linked to a separate case where stolen cash from elderly victims was allegedly converted into USDT.

Tether and Bitfinex said they were EQIBank customers, but had no knowledge of Capstone’s alleged misconduct.

This highlights Tether’s banking access problem, relying on smaller offshore banks and payment middlemen to reach the dollar system.

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Circle and Tether freeze hacker wallet linked to $352M Bitget exploit

The wallet held about $318,000 in $USDC and $USDT.

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