🗽 The U.S. Senate temporarily postponed consideration of the CLARITY Act bill, focusing on other priorities, including sanctions against Russia.

Due to Senate procedural rules, only one controversial bill can be considered at a time, so the vote on crypto regulation has been postponed.

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📉 Stablecoin capitalization decreased by approximately $10 billion from its May peak and dropped to $300 billion — the largest drop since the Terra collapse in 2022.

However, this does not hinder their use, as in June alone, a record volume of transactions — $1.79 trillion — passed through stablecoins, which indicates the market's shift from simple storage and speculation to active payments.

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🏦 VTB plans to enter the cryptocurrency services market and offer clients transactions with digital assets in the regulated Russian segment.

The bank expects to capture a significant share of the new market, which, according to VTB's estimates, could reach several tens of billions of rubles.

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🇦🇷 In Argentina, two banking groups are preparing stablecoins, pegged to the peso, for corporate payments, treasury operations, and collateralized loans.

They are not launched by the banks themselves, but by related crypto companies — this way they circumvent the central bank's current ban on direct crypto services.

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🇲🇲 Myanmar has adopted a tough law against online scams — managing fraudulent centers and cryptocurrency frauds now carries life imprisonment.

Kidnapping, torture, and forcing people to work in such centers are punishable by DEATH.

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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan launches a special mining zone Besqala Mining Valley in Karakalpakstan — its residents will be exempt from income taxes until January 1, 2035.

Instead, miners will pay the zone's administration a monthly fee of 1% of revenue.

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🇦🇪 The largest UAE airline Emirates launched ticket payment with cryptocurrency — the function is already available on the website and in the app.

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⚡️ FSB declares Pavel Durov wanted internationally — he has been charged under Part 1.1, Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (facilitating terrorist activities).

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🇪🇺 Major European banks and financial companies launched RL1 — a common regulated blockchain network for issuing tokenized bonds, funds, and stablecoins.

The network is already operational, uniting over 50 participants and has processed about €700 million in transactions.

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☠️ Losses in crypto from security incidents in the first 6 months of 2026 exceeded $1 billion across 212 incidents, which is the highest figure for any six-month period — analysts Blockaid.

ARK Invest predicts that in the coming months, an increase in bankruptcies and sector consolidation is expected in crypto. Historically, such processes are observed close to a cyclical market bottom.

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🇮🇳 In India, a darknet drug syndicate Team Kalki was liquidated — investigators, with the help of Binance analytics and blockchain data, tracked cryptocurrency movements, found associated wallets, and froze the criminals' assets.

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⚖️ The founder of BitRiver Igor Runets was accused of fraud of almost 1 billion rubles during the supply of mining equipment to En+ structures.

After the new accusation, the court sent him from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center for two months.

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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia will allow margin trading in cryptocurrency and digital rights for both qualified and ordinary investors.

For unqualified participants, separate limits will be introduced, which the regulator will establish later.

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🇹🇷 Turkey launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal betting — since the beginning of the year, 47,493 websites have been blocked and over 5,600 people have been detained.

The investigation also uncovered bank accounts and crypto wallets through which money was withdrawn — in one case, the network's turnover was estimated at approximately $4 billion.

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📊 Historically, Bitcoin bear markets have lasted an average of 383 days — if we count the current cycle from the crash in October 2025, it is already the 297th day.

If history repeats itself, there are about 86 days left until the possible end of the bear market — approximately until October 23, 2026.

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🇰🇪 Tether and Nairobi Securities Exchange will test USDT settlements, asset tokenization, and fractional securities trading.

The goal is to accelerate transactions in Kenya's $26.4 billion market and attract more local and foreign investors.

Previously, Tether invested $20,000,000 in the Argentinian neobank Ualá as part of expanding its presence in Latin America.

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⛔️ Aave closes 50 underutilized liquidity pools worth $100,000,000 — Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos will be most affected.

Some networks may completely lose support from the largest DeFi creditor.

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