🇹🇷 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The investigation also uncovered bank accounts and crypto wallets through which money was withdrawn — in one case, the network's turnover was estimated at approximately $4 billion.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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🔮 Binance US is preparing its own prediction market and plans to apply for a CFTC license in August — if the regulator approves the launch, Polymarket and Kalshi will have a competitor with a massive crypto audience.

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🚓 Pavel Durov included on Rosfinmonitoring's register of terrorists and extremists.

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🇮🇷 US imposed sanctions against Iranian company Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority, which accepted crypto for passage through Hormuz.

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🇰🇷 In Seoul, arrested three scammers who stole XRP worth $8,500,000 from 71 investors — they posed as Flare Network developers and lured people into fake staking with a "guaranteed" return of up to 1.8% per month.

That's kinda low, here they usually offer 100500% per month 🚬

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🗽 American public companies hold 1,240,000 BTC — almost 93% of all corporate Bitcoin reserves in the world.

Over the past year, they bought an additional 510,000 BTC — more than three times what miners managed to mine during the same period.

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