⛔️ 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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🚓 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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🚬 Co-founder of Opera and creator of Vivaldi Jon von Tetzchner called for banning cryptocurrencies, comparing them to other technologies that, in his opinion, are too easily used for manipulation and bypassing control.

He has long considered crypto a speculative system without real utility and previously promised not to add either a crypto wallet or built-in AI features to Vivaldi.

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🏦 Latin America's largest digital bank Nu is entering the US and launching an international multi-currency account based on USDC and EURC.

The bank already has over 140 million clients, and the new service will operate in more than 35 countries.

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🇪🇺 The EU has tightened requirements for manufacturers of crypto wallets and other connected software — an actively exploited vulnerability must be reported within 24 hours, and a full report submitted within a maximum of 72 hours.

The rules are being introduced as part of the Cyber Resilience Act and make the response to critical bugs significantly stricter.

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🇦🇪 UAE integrate Avalanche into the UAE PASS digital vault infrastructure — the country's national digital identity system.

Through UAE PASS, residents gain access to government services, sign documents, and store digital copies of official documents.

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🐋 Strive Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk's former associate from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), bought another 496 BTC last week — the company now holds 25,000 BTC.

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🏧 Bitcoin Bancorp bought out 2547 Bitcoin ATMs for only $620,750 after Bitcoin Depot's bankruptcy — which is about $244 per device.

Just recently, Bitcoin Depot's assets were valued at over $26,000 000, so the equipment effectively went for next to nothing.

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🍕 A courier came up with a double monetization for delivery —a homemade Bitcoin miner heats pizza with its heat, while simultaneously mining BTC.

According to a publication by Documenting Bitcoin, mining is his main hobby, and delivery is "for the soul."

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📊 Bitcoin is holding around $78,000, despite sales on spot, futures, and through ETFs — according to Glassnode, fresh capital is currently managing to buy out this pressure.

In other words, the level of $78,000 is currently acting as an important demand zone, but its strength depends on the continued influx of money.

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🛢 Polish oil giant Orlen lost over $424,000,000 trying to buy Venezuelan oil through a chain of intermediaries and payments in USDT.

Three chartered tankers arrived off the coast of Venezuela, however, the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela stated that payment had not been received, and the ships left without cargo.

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🦊 MetaMask will automatically intervene in suspicious transactions — if after confirmation, the smart contract attempts to execute something other than what the wallet showed in the preview, the operation will automatically roll back.

Additionally, the wallet warns about address spoofing and transfers to new recipients, and now separately recognizes signs of investment and romance scam schemes right before sending funds.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan wants to use associated petroleum gas from oil fields for cryptocurrency mining — instead of flaring, it will be converted into electricity directly on site.

Under the program, miners will have to give the state 10% of the mined crypto.

It was previously reported that Binance wants to make Kazakhstan a settlement hub for CIS countries.

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