🇷🇺 In Moscow, a 17-year-old teenager came to "Moscow City" to buy cryptocurrency for 1,500,000 rubles, obtained from selling a car, but the deal fell through — after leaving the building, he was pulled out of a taxi and his bag with money was taken.

Police detained three suspects, part of the sum has already been seized, a case was initiated under the article on grand larceny, which carries up to 12 years in prison.

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🇧🇾 Belarus wants to expand crypto regulation — they are already discussing the legalization of copy trading, airdrops, and trust management of cryptocurrency.

In parallel, the country is launching a format for crypto banks — they will be able to work with crypto deposits, tokens, loans, staking, transfers, and cryptocurrency exchange.

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🇷🇺 In Russia, a bill on cryptocurrency market regulation has been prepared for its second reading — Aksakov.

The document introduces judicial protection for cryptocurrency owners, divides investors into qualified and unqualified, and also allows licensed brokers to work with foreign crypto exchanges and use cryptocurrency for international settlements and attracting foreign investments.

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📊 Bitcoin and Ethereum reserves on exchanges have fallen to multi-year lows — for BTC, this is the lowest since 2017, for ETH since 2015.

Investors are increasingly withdrawing coins to personal wallets and are in no hurry to sell — this is usually considered a sign of strong market confidence.

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🇮🇷 The US ceasefire with Iran is no longer in effect, said Donald Trump.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan launches major crypto reform — authorities want to exempt individuals' income from digital asset operations on regulated platforms and provide a mechanism for legalizing crypto previously stored on unregulated foreign services.

Separately, the country will work out the use of stablecoins for cross-border settlements and mining using energy from associated petroleum and natural gas — meaning they are trying to bring crypto out of the grey zone and into a full-fledged part of the economy.

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🏦 Alfa-Bank launched closed testing of crypto trading for a limited circle of qualified investors — Media

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🤖 BNB Chain is developing a new Layer-1 blockchain specifically for AI agents and algorithmic trading — testnet launch is expected in 2026.

The network will be able to process over 100,000 transactions per second, confirm them in less than 50 ms, and will be protected from front-running thanks to the absence of a public mempool.

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☠️ A client of Gate stated that about $1,700,000 was withdrawn from their account, although, according to them, phone, Google Authenticator, and email confirmation were enabled.

Later, in their email, they found notifications about password reset, changes to security settings, and account email – after which the assets allegedly left the exchange.

Gate says it found no system vulnerability and considers the incident individual – versions involving email hacking and possible use of a deepfake for identity verification are being discussed online.

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🚓 The Russian State Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill introducing criminal liability for the illegal organization of cryptocurrency circulation in Russia.

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⛔️ Another crypto project ceases operations — the founder of the DeFi project Zapper announced the closure of the service after 7 years of operation, at its peak, the platform served over 2,000,000 active users per month.

Recently, Ctrl Wallet also announced its complete cessation of operations.

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🇲🇾 Malaysian authorities conducted 3049 raids against illegal mining, seizing 75,578 mining rigs and detaining 629 people.

According to data from the authorities, due to electricity theft, the damage to the national power company exceeded $1 billion.

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💤 A Satoshi-era whale that had been inactive for 16 years woke up — he moved 40 BTC, bought for a pittance in 2010, and the realized profit amounted to $2,540,000.

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☠️ User lost 999 999 USDT, by signing a phishing transaction in the Ethereum network.

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🚓 Interpol reported on a global operation First Light 2026 against crypto fraudsters — in 97 countries, 5811 people were arrested, 31,014 bank accounts were blocked, and assets worth $293,000,000 were seized or frozen.

Among the cases are romance scam schemes with money laundering via crypto, call centers with online casinos, and even a fake "police station" where victims were persuaded to transfer money to "safe accounts".

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🇷🇺 Rosfinmonitoring will gain control over large crypto payments in foreign trade transactions — information on transactions for an amount exceeding 10,000,000 rubles will automatically **be sent** to financial intelligence.

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