🇰🇿 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☠️ A client of Gate stated that about $1,700,000 was withdrawn from their account, although, according to them, phone, Google Authenticator, and email confirmation were enabled.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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🇺🇸 Bank of America reports on the "generational redistribution" of cash flow — for hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, free cash flow drops sharply, while for chip manufacturers — on the contrary, it soars.

Simply put, money in the AI boom is increasingly shifting away from those who build data centers to those who sell them hardware.

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⚖️ In Nizhny Novgorod, the investigation into a scheme for underground online casinos has been completed — according to the investigation, the 22-year-old defendant processed over 113,000,000 rubles through cards, cash, and crypto exchangers in 5 months, keeping a percentage for himself.

The case is being sent to court, and the accused himself is under house arrest.

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🖥 MARA Holdings buys a 490-hectare site in Texas for $600,000,000, to build a data center there for AI and Bitcoin mining — the company expects to reach 1 GW of capacity by October 2027, and after closing related deals, bring the total energy portfolio to 4.8 GW.

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🇰🇿 CZ showed one of 5000 points of sale in Kazakhstan, where crypto can already be accepted via Alatau City Bank POS terminals powered by Binance Pay.

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🐋 JPMorgan believes that the main threat to Bitcoin is not potential large sales of Strategy, but the transition of banks and large institutions to closed blockchains.

If tokenization and payments move to private networks, public blockchains could lose activity, liquidity, and capital, which would ultimately hit the entire crypto market, including BTC.

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🇪🇺 After Binance restrictions in the EU, around 70% of withdrawn funds went to personal wallets and only 30% — to MiCA-licensed platforms.

Exchange head Richard Teng believes that regulation backfired — instead of moving to controlled platforms, users massively chose self-custody.

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⛩ Metaplanet 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.

Metaplanet currently holds 43,000 BTC on its balance sheet.

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