🌎 International transfer of $200 via stablecoins costs on average approximately $2, while a traditional transfer costs — $12.72.

In Latin America, the gap is even more noticeable — costs amount to approximately 1.25% of the transfer amount versus 5.64% for traditional money transfers.

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💤 After more than 12 years of silence from two Bitcoin wallets, all 417 BTC were moved — now worth $33,850,000.

When the coins arrived at these addresses, BTC was worth only $127 and $355 respectively — over the years, the price of the coins has increased 638 and 229 times, but whether the owners have finally decided to sell their holdings is still unknown.

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🏦 World Sam Altman's introduced the World ID suite for banks.

The company also released full deepfake verification in Zoom — the feature recognizes fake participants in video calls.

Previously, World launched World Money — a financial “super app for people”, which includes stablecoins, international transfers, investments, Earn programs, and virtual accounts.

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🇱🇻 In Latvia, paying taxes with cryptocurrency may be allowed as early as 2027 — the Ministry of Finance supported the idea, but technical details are still being discussed.

Meanwhile, the parliament simplified life for crypto investors — on special investment accounts, tax will now arise only when profit is withdrawn, not after each transaction.

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🗽 Elon Musk promised to give one SpaceX share (≈$146) to every child in the USA.

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🇮🇳 In India, the premium for buying USDT reached 6.4% — instead of the usual 95 rupees per dollar, buyers pay 101 rupees per token. When buying for 100,000 rupees, the overpayment was about 6,000 rupees.

Among the reasons are high local demand, limited USDT supply, and additional exchange costs.

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🇩🇪 Germany's largest network of savings banks Sparkassen has started to offer clients cryptocurrency trading directly in the banking app.

You can buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Polygon — currently the service is available only in some banks, but every month another 30–40 branches of the network will be connected to it.

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💳 Visa prepares cryptocurrency payments at 175 million merchant locations worldwide — users will be able to pay with their phone directly from the balance of a connected crypto wallet, without getting a separate card.

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🎲 One gamble wasn't enough

PumpFun launched trading of PreStocks — tokens tied to shares of large private companies, which haven't even gone public yet.

Now you can speculate on what is not yet available on the regular stock market.

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💼 Hedge funds are selling off tech stocks at the fastest pace in 10 years — with chipmakers being hit the hardest.

However, funds are not so much betting on a further decline as they are reducing risks — even after the sell-off, the tech sector still accounts for 23.5% of their portfolios.

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🚓 In Poland, 8 Ukrainians and a Belarusian citizen were detained in a money laundering case through cryptocurrencies, exchangers, and fictitious gold purchases — a group led by a 34-year-old Ukrainian conducted operations worth over 337 million zlotys ($87 million), obtained from investment fraud.

During searches, cash and gold worth over 1 million zlotys were seized; the suspects face up to 15 years in prison.

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⛩ Japanese Metaplanet, which has already accumulated 44 000 BTC, is entering the American market — Super League shareholders approved a deal under which the company will transfer 2100 BTC and $2.5 million in exchange for 95.7% of the shares.

After its completion, Super League will be renamed to Superplanet, and Metaplanet will be able to raise funds for further Bitcoin purchases directly in the US and Japan.

Earlier, Metaplanet announced that it wants to launch Bitcoin-backed lending instruments in Japan — the company plans to create a 24/7 BTC lending market, which is not yet available in the country.

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