🇷🇺 The State Duma Committee on Competition Protection unexpectedly spoke against overly strict regulation of the crypto market and warned that strict licenses could kill startups and leave the market only to large players.

The State Duma also suggested considering the launch of a Russian stablecoin, for example, pegged to the ruble or gold.

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🇨🇳 The Circle company, which issues the USDC stablecoin, stated that it sees "huge opportunities" for creating a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese yuan.

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🚓 Ukrainian security forces detained a member of an international hacker group that attacked companies in Europe and the USA — the man laundered over $100 million, obtained through ransom for stolen data, by converting money into cryptocurrency and investing it in real estate and property in Ukraine.

During more than 30 searches, law enforcement officers arrested real estate, cars, about $1 million in cash, and cryptocurrency worth approximately $8.3 million.

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🇷🇺 Aksakov stated that he believes in crypto.

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🌏 In the world, only 7 countries remain where Bitcoin is officially banned: China, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar, and Bangladesh.

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💸 Drift Protocol will receive $127,500,000 from Tether for user fund recovery.

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👻 Beijing lecturer Jiang Xueqin stated that the CIA or DARPA could have been behind the creation of Bitcoin — according to him, the development of Bitcoin required too many resources, cryptography, and years of work to be the work of one person, and the very fact that the technology was released for free and its author disappeared, more closely resembles a state experiment than an ordinary IT project.

He also claims that blockchain could have emerged in the same environment as the internet or GPS, and Satoshi Nakamoto's anonymity only strengthens suspicions.

However, most experts consider the theory dubious: the Bitcoin network operates on tens of thousands of independent nodes around the world, and its code has been developing openly and publicly for 17 years.

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🇰🇬 Following several visits by Changpeng Zhao, Kyrgyzstan is preparing to welcome Justin Sun. Against the backdrop of cryptocurrency laws passed in 2022, the country is suddenly becoming a new magnet for crypto billionaires and major blockchain companies.

If the interest from such figures continues, Kyrgyzstan could become for Central Asia what Dubai has become for the Middle East—a destination for people to launch crypto projects, attract investment, and build a new digital economy.

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🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that for the duration of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz is completely open for the passage of all commercial vessels.

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