🌍 Sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries invested about $66 billion in artificial intelligence and digitalization in 2025 alone.

For example, Mubadala fund invested $12.9 billion in AI and launched the MGX fund with a target capital of $100 billion, while Abu Dhabi authorities are already using AI to analyze private lending deals worth $126 billion.

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🇪🇺 Coinbase launches crypto futures trading in 26 European countries.

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🐋 Strategy bought 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion, the average purchase price was $70,946 per 1 BTC.

Now the company's balance sheet holds 738,731 BTC.

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🌪 The US Treasury for the first time recognized, that crypto mixers are used not only by criminals, but also by ordinary users for financial privacy.

For now, these are just recommendations, but they could form the basis for future regulation.

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🏦 The largest US banks are preparing a lawsuit against the regulator Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over simplified licenses for crypto and fintech companies.

In their opinion, the new rules allow such firms to operate almost like banks nationwide, but without the same strict oversight — which banks call a dangerous "regulatory loophole."

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🛢 Oil trading volume on Hyperliquid surged from $21 million to over $1.2 billion after strikes on Iran.

Traders flocked to on-chain oil futures en masse, reacting to the price surge and supply disruption risks while traditional markets were closed.

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⚙️ Vitalik Buterin wants to simplify Ethereum staking to "one click" with a simplified distributed validator system — the technology allows one validator to run on multiple servers, and if one fails, another automatically takes over its work.

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🇷🇺 In Russia, mining farms and data centers may be switched to a "take-or-pay" electricity payment scheme — starting from 2027, facilities with a capacity of 670 kW or more will pay for almost all declared capacity, even if they actually use less.

Authorities believe this will help avoid building unnecessary power grids, but market participants warn — data center costs could increase 4–5 times, and some miners will switch to their own generation or curtail expansion.

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🚓 In Krasnodar, a participant in a scheme was convicted who deceived people who had already lost money in the crypto-financial pyramid Cashbery.

The fraudsters called victims and promised to "return investments," but demanded that taxes or insurance be paid first — thus they managed to swindle over 10,000,000 rubles.

The court upheld the verdict: the participant in the scam will spend 3.5 years in a penal colony.

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🇹🇭 In Thailand a major crypto market crackdown has begun — local platforms have frozen over 10,000 accounts suspected of money laundering.

This is part of a large-scale campaign against so-called mule accounts — front accounts through which stolen or illicit money is circulated.

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🔮 Polymarket decided to fight suspicious bets and attracted for this Palantir — a company that makes analytical software for the US army and special services.

Now AI will track transactions in real-time and look for manipulations in sports markets.

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🇫🇷 In France, criminals disguised as police officers broke into the home of a family near Paris and forced the owner to transfer them about €900,000 in BTC.

Threatening with a knife, they waited for the transfer, after which they tied up, injured the couple, and fled. The woman managed to free herself and call for help — now the police are trying to track the stolen coins via the blockchain.

In 2025, the number of such attacks increased by 75%, and the total losses of victims reached $40,900,000.

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⛔️ In the Aave protocol, the CAPO protection oracle failed, causing liquidations of wstETH positions totaling approximately $26,000,000 to erroneously trigger.

The team stated that the incident is related to the price jump limiting mechanism and promised to compensate affected users for their losses.

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🏆 Changpeng Zhao's (CZ) fortune has reached $110 billion, according to Forbes.

This is $47 billion more than last year, thanks to Binance's valuation growing to $100 billion.

It is worth noting that CZ is now richer than Bill Gates.

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