💳 Spending on cryptocurrency cards has already reached $600,000,000 per month — with about 90% of transactions going through Visa, which is increasingly betting on crypto infrastructure, and not just traditional banks.

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🌎 In Latin America, users are increasingly exchanging traditional money for "digital dollars" — in 2025, USDT and USDC accounted for 40% of all cryptocurrency purchases, while Bitcoin accounted for only 18%.

Due to inflation and the fall of local currencies, people buy stablecoins not for trading, but as a more understandable way to preserve savings in dollars.

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💼 In April, the volume of venture investments in crypto projects decreased by 75% compared to March.

The market cooled sharply — funds became noticeably more cautious in new deals.

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🗽 In the USA progress has been made in the dispute over whether users can be paid income for holding and using stablecoins.

The essence of the compromise is that payments will be allowed, but not for "just holding," but only if stablecoins are actually used — for example, in payments or transfers.

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⛽️ In April, Polymarket fees reached $43,360,000 — this is approximately $520 million on an annualized basis.

The platform virtually dominates blockchain prediction markets — accounting for over 97% of all segment fees.

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🇷🇺 The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation intends to accelerate the introduction of criminal punishment for illegal mining — the issue is actively being discussed with federal executive authorities.

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🇮🇷 Reuters found out that Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, was founded by brothers from the influential Harrazi family, linked to the top echelons of Iranian power.

The exchange serves over 11 million clients and continued to operate even during the war and internet blackout, processing hundreds of millions of dollars, including suspicious transfers from sanctioned entities.

It was previously reported that the US confiscated nearly $500,000,000 in Iranian crypto assets as part of Operation Economic Fury.

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👻 AI is becoming the main threat to cryptography — it is capable of finding vulnerabilities in post-quantum algorithms faster than developers, believes Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

The problem is that such schemes themselves are still poorly studied — neither implementation errors nor weaknesses in mathematics are known.

As a defense, multi-signatures and protocol-level changes are proposed, while Ethereum L2 solutions, according to him, are not yet ready for quantum risks.

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🌎 Western Union launched the USDPT stablecoin on the Solana blockchain.
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