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🗽 The Trump administration turned out to be the most crypto-involved in US history — more than 20% of high-ranking officials and candidates declared crypto or investments in blockchain companies.

A total of at least $193 million in crypto assets has been disclosed, with at least $51 million belonging to Trump himself. For comparison, there were no such declarations in Biden's cabinet at all.

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🇮🇷 Iran launched the Hormuz Safe platform, where ships can pay in Bitcoin for "insurance" to pass through the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world's key oil routes.

After a BTC payment, the digital policy is activated immediately, and authorities expect to turn the service into a multi-billion dollar source of income.

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🚬 Years of anonymity on the darknet ended with one brilliant idea — buy gold bars with crypto and order home delivery.

That's how authorities tracked down the alleged admin of Dream Market, seizing gold worth $1.7 million, cash, and related accounts. Now he faces up to 20 years in prison for each count of money laundering.

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🖥 In the Novosibirsk region, law enforcement conducted "Mining" operation and found three illegal crypto farms — the largest one operated on 32 devices and, according to the police, was connected to the grid in violation of rules.

It's especially interesting that in one story a local official surfaced, and in another — a top manager of an enterprise, who installed the miners right on the territory of the production workshop.

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🇷🇺 Rosfinmonitoring wants to crack down on crypto exchanges almost like banks — with strict control, rules, and responsibility.

The logic is simple — while banks are regulated, and the exchange of crypto for rubles lives in a grey area, this remains a convenient loophole for money laundering.

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🇧🇾 It is reported, that addresses of the Belarusian exchange WhiteBird have started to appear in AML services as sanctioned.

On May 24, the 20th package of EU sanctions comes into force — absolutely all Belarusian crypto services may receive similar "marks".

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🚓 A 42-year-old Ukrainian woman under the pseudonym "Lola Ferrari" was extradited from Thailand to the USA in the case of the crypto pyramid scheme Forsage.

The project collected $340,000,000 and left over 80% of participants penniless — if convicted, the woman faces up to 20 years in prison.

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🪙 Strategy bought 24 869 BTC for $2 billion, at a price of $80 985 per 1 BTC — now the company's balance sheet holds 843 738 BTC.

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🇮🇷 Iran proposes a phased ceasefire and gradual opening of the Strait of HormuzMedia.

In return, Tehran is ready not to stop its nuclear program completely, but to freeze it for a long time and transfer enriched uranium to Russia.

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🤖 Vitalik Buterin believes that powerful AI models will soon start mass-finding vulnerabilities in code — and this could sharply hit crypto, ZK, STARKs, and post-quantum infrastructure.

He sees the solution NOT in AI simply writing more code, but in programs with mathematically proven security — where important software is not just tested, but literally proven to work correctly.

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🤖 BNB Chain launched BNBAgent SDK — a set of tools so that AI agents can work with wallets, payments, memory, and reputation on the blockchain.

Simply put, this is a foundation for bots that will not only be able to respond in chat, but also pay for services themselves, execute transactions, and save task history.

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🇷🇺 Rostelecom and Sber are launching the Web3Gate pilot — a platform for working with digital currencies and tokenized assets.

The project will be tested on Sber's infrastructure under real load to check how digital assets can work in mass services.

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🗽 The SEC could approve tokenized stocks as early as this week — regular shares will be able to trade directly on the blockchain.

It was also announced that starting August 1, banks and credit unions in Minnesota will begin providing cryptocurrency custody services.

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🔫 In Moscow, a man arrived at a meeting to buy cryptocurrency for cash, but instead of the seller, he was met by three robbers — threatening him with a pistol, they took a bag with 2,000,000 rubles and fled.

The police have already detained two suspects, and part of the money has been recovered.

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👻 The Fear and Greed Index has again dropped into the extreme fear zone (25).

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🪙 People continue to leave the Ethereum Foundation — following Tim Beiko and others, two more developers, Carl Beekhuizen and Julian Ma, have left the foundation.

Both were not random employees — one worked on the Beacon Chain and Ethereum throughput, the second was involved in network economics, scaling, and privacy.

Against the backdrop of a series of departures, this no longer looks like a normal rotation, but rather a serious restructuring within the EF.

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🍿 A Korean funeral company invested customer prepayments into a risky 2x ETF on BitMine shares, and incurred an unrealized drawdown of approximately $33,000,000.

Now the management is calculating, if they will have enough liquidity, should customers massively want to terminate contracts and withdraw money.

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🇷🇺 Russian investors may be allowed to trade crypto on foreign exchanges through local brokers — access will depend on client status, and platforms will be chosen considering sanctions risks.

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🇰🇷 Tether enters South Korea — the company filed immediately 7 trademark applications, including the name, logo, and the gold stablecoin XAUT.

Recall that South Korea accounts for about 30% of the global cryptocurrency trading volume, with 85% of transactions there being altcoins, not Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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🇺🇸 Trump family's Truth Social company withdrew its application for a spot Bitcoin ETF — the decision was made amidst high market competition from similar products offered by BlackRock and Morgan Stanley.

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