🪙 Banking giant Bank of America 17 times increased its stake in BitMine — to 3.1 million shares ($86 million).

Recall that BitMine owns over 4,300,000 ETH, which accounts for 3.6% of the coin's total supply.

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🚬 Nabiullina proposed a legislative ban on cryptocurrency operations outside the official regulated field — the proposal has already been sent by the Bank of Russia to the government for discussion.

"People sell cryptocurrency and in return receive money that was stolen by fraudsters from honest people. In fact, these cryptocurrency sellers become unwitting participants in a fraudulent scheme."

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⚙️ Ethereum Foundation outlined 3 priorities for Ethereum's development for the next year:

1️⃣ Scale — increasing the gas limit to 100 million, expanding L2 throughput, and preparing for parallel transaction processing.
2️⃣ Improve UX — implementing smart wallets at the protocol level and simplifying interaction between different L2s.
3️⃣ Harden the L1 — strengthening security, increasing censorship resistance, and preparing for quantum threats.

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💸 Coinbase launched a new lending program, which allows US customers to borrow up to $100,000 in USDC using XRP, DOGE, ADA, and LTC as collateral.

Previously, the exchange allowed US users to borrow up to 1,000,000 USDC using cbETH as collateral — tokenized staked Ethereum.

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🦅 Putin stated that cryptocurrency is increasingly used by terrorist and criminal structures as a means of settlement and obtaining illegal income, while new forms of digital crimes are emerging.

According to him, current legislation does not always keep up with the development of technology, therefore the Supreme Court should promptly develop unified approaches and, if necessary, initiate changes in laws.

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🪙 The Bitcoin Lightning Network already processes over $1 billion in monthly transactions — a significant increase in volume began in 2025.

Despite this, many still call the network "stillborn" and doubt its relevance.

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🪙 More than 1.5 million SOL ($126,000,000) have been unlocked on an unknown wallet.

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🤖 Vitalik Buterin spoke against fully autonomous AI agents — the further AI is from human control, the higher the systemic risks and the more "garbage" content instead of benefit.

He emphasized that models operate on centralized servers like OpenAI and Anthropic, so talks about self-sovereign are currently conditional, and AI development requires a clear choice of direction to avoid dangerous scenarios.

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🦅 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation stated that not only banks will be able to engage in the storage of cryptocurrencies in the Russian Federation — custodians will not require a banking license.

Their activities will be regulated according to a model close to the regulation of depositories in the traditional financial market.

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💎 Over the past 6 months, XAUT worth an amount equivalent to 94 tons of gold, paying only 0.0016% in fees was transferred on the blockchain, — reported the CEO of Tether.

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