🇦🇪 The Dubai regulator has issued the first global guidelines for cryptoasset issuance, clearly dividing them into categories and establishing requirements for licensing, reserves, and disclosure.

Token issuance in Dubai is now formalized: stablecoins and RWAs are subject to the strictest rules, including mandatory reserves and redemption rights.

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🚓 Bithumb has begun seizing the assets of users who failed to return 7 BTC after being erroneously credited during a promotion.

Due to a glitch, the exchange credited 620 000 BTC instead of small payouts, some of which customers managed to withdraw or sell, leaving a loss of over $100 million.

Now the company is pursuing legal action to recover the funds, and in most cases, users are likely to lose.

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🚓 In Moscow, businessman Gagik Gulakyan was detained — previously he was a plaintiff in the Bitmama case (Valeria Fedyakina). He is suspected of illegal banking activities as part of a group with large income, the investigation is seeking his arrest.

Fedyakina herself has already been sentenced to 7 years for cryptocurrency fraud amounting to over 2.2 billion rubles.

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🇫🇷 France wants to force users to disclose funds over €5000 in non-custodial wallets like MetaMask, Phantom, and Ledger — even though the tax authorities can't verify this.

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🇷🇺 In Russia, fines of up to 20,000 rubles may be introduced for failing to report crypto wallets, — media reports.

It will be necessary to notify the tax authorities even if the wallet is simply created and not used. It is difficult to control this, but when tracking the withdrawal of crypto to fiat within the country, it will no longer be possible to hide assets — and then it will become virtually impossible to evade reporting.

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🇧🇾 Interest in launching cryptobanks in Belarus is growing following Lukashenko's new decree.

According to the National Bank, seven companies and crypto exchanges are already participating in discussions.

Starting mid-summer, they will be able to apply for cryptobank status, allowing them to issue cards with cryptocurrency balances and conduct regular banking transactions.

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🇺🇸 The US Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of inflation, rose to 3.3%.

Last month's figure was 2.4%.

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