🇫🇷 In France, criminals disguised as police officers broke into the home of a family near Paris and forced the owner to transfer them about €900,000 in BTC.

Threatening with a knife, they waited for the transfer, after which they tied up, injured the couple, and fled. The woman managed to free herself and call for help — now the police are trying to track the stolen coins via the blockchain.

In 2025, the number of such attacks increased by 75%, and the total losses of victims reached $40,900,000.

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⛔️ In the Aave protocol, the CAPO protection oracle failed, causing liquidations of wstETH positions totaling approximately $26,000,000 to erroneously trigger.

The team stated that the incident is related to the price jump limiting mechanism and promised to compensate affected users for their losses.

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🏆 Changpeng Zhao's (CZ) fortune has reached $110 billion, according to Forbes.

This is $47 billion more than last year, thanks to Binance's valuation growing to $100 billion.

It is worth noting that CZ is now richer than Bill Gates.

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💳 Mastercard is launching a new blockchain initiative for fast international transfers, which has been joined by Binance, PayPal, and Ripple.

The idea is simple: to combine the liquidity of crypto exchanges, PayPal's huge audience, and Ripple's cross-border settlement technology, to send money almost instantly and with fees below 1%.

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🐳 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink believes that the world is too fixated on AI, whereas the real revolution is ahead — the digitization and tokenization of assets.

According to him, the transfer of everything — from money to securities — onto the blockchain could radically change finance and daily life.

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🇺🇸 The US Consumer Price Index (CPI), reflecting inflation, remained at 2.4%.

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🇷🇺 Bitcoin is the most unprofitable asset against the ruble based on February results, according to the Bank of Russia.

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🐋 Venture capital investments in crypto projects fell to a 6-year low — in the first quarter of 2026, they amounted to just $2.2 billion.

Most of the funds went to crypto financial services (24%) and DeFi (27%), while seed rounds accounted for only $166 million — approximately at 2020 levels.

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🇰🇿 The National Bank of Kazakhstan became the first central bank to buy Bitcoin, — reported VanEck's head of digital asset research.

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🗽 The SEC and CFTC signed an updated memorandum of understanding for future coordination between the two agencies.

Now they will grill crypto folks together 🚬

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👻 Bloomberg again turns on bearish mode — amidst a global re-evaluation of risky assets, they believe that Bitcoin could still fall below $10,000.

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🇮🇳 In India, arrested the co-founder of Darwin Labs in the case of the GainBitcoin crypto scheme worth $790,000,000 — fraudsters promised up to 10% profit per month in BTC, but around 8,000 investors never got their money back.

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🇷🇺 The State Duma approved a law on fines for mining — for mining cryptocurrency in prohibited regions, individuals can be fined up to 150,000 rubles, and companies — up to 2,000,000 rubles with confiscation of equipment, and for repeated violations, fines for legal entities can reach 10 million rubles.

They will also punish for mining without registration in the FNS (Federal Tax Service) register, exceeding power consumption limits, and operating mining infrastructure without permission.

The authorities believe this will help bring the industry "out of the shadows" and reduce the load on the energy system.

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