🐳 A whale played the correction beautifully — before the drop, sold ETH, wstETH, and WBTC for almost $190 million, and after the crash, bought back the assets cheaper.

By rough estimates, such a rearrangement gave him up to $38,000,000 in savings on entry.

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🇦🇪 Crypto businessman Arut Nazaryan in the UAE was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine of 200 million dirhams (4 billion rubles) — for operating a crypto exchange without a license.

According to media reports, the fine was calculated as the total trading volume on the platform, and Nazaryan himself has been in custody for almost half a year.

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🇨🇳 A court in China sentenced the thief of 107 BTC to 10 years in prison, recognizing Bitcoin as property.

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🇷🇺 Russian authorities plan to restrict access for unqualified investors to some cryptocurrencies that the authorities deem risky — even USDT and BNB could fall under these restrictions, buying them will not be prohibited, but additional fees, risk warnings, and other protective measures may be introduced.

The main argument of officials is — issuers of such coins are capable of freezing user assets. A complete ban was discussed, but the market opposed it, so the authorities decided to leave access to these assets, strengthening control and investor protection.

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🇪🇺 The European Union, as part of the 21st package of sanctions, wants to strike crypto services from third countries that help Russia circumvent restrictions.

The measures could affect 12 crypto platforms and dozens of Russian banks — this could be the largest expansion of sanctions against the Russian banking sector.

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💳 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law limiting the number of bank cards to 20 per person — banks will also receive the right to block or limit suspicious payments.

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🤣 CZ stated that Bitcoin will not be dead for too long.

Do we believe?

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🔮 Prediction platform Kalshi tightened control after a series of insider trading scandals — now traders "in sensitive markets" are required to disclose their place of employment.

In the first quarter alone, the company blocked over 100 suspicious transactions and referred over 20 cases to law enforcement agencies.

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🏦 Billionaire Tim Draper believes that quantum computers are more likely to create problems for banks with their outdated infrastructure than for Bitcoin — in his opinion, even with the emergence of a real threat, the BTC network will be able to adapt, whereas the traditional financial system will prove to be much less flexible.

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🇷🇺 The European Union is considering sanctions which could force major crypto exchanges to limit or completely close access for Russian users — Bybit, OKX, and Gate are named as being in the highest risk zone, whereas for Binance and other platforms already complying with EU sanctions requirements, the situation is unlikely to change significantly.

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⛔️ Hyperliquid has started blocking via the web interface wallets that interacted with HTX after British sanctions — the DEX protocol itself remains open, but the main site now blocks addresses through risk checks from Chainalysis, Elliptic, and TRM.

It turns out to be a strange paradox — a decentralized exchange does not store assets and does not require KYC, but access to it for most users can still be closed by a regular interface.

What's worse is that even "clean" wallets can fall under risk — due to linked accounts on platforms or dust attacks, when a problematic address itself sends you small amounts.

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🇺🇸 US Consumer Price Index (CPI), reflecting inflation, rose to 4.2% — last month's figure was 3.8%.

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☠️ The old Raydium pool on Solana was hacked for $1,340,000 — not the entire exchange was affected, but a separate, outdated liquidity pool.

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