🇪🇺 WSJ: Lagarde personally intervened in Binance's attempt to obtain a license in the EU — among her concerns were risks for the digital euro (CBDC) and the strengthening of dollar stablecoins.

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🇯🇵 Bank of Japan raised the rate to 1.25% — a 31-year high, gradually ending the era of ultra-cheap money.

This is important for the crypto market — the more expensive the yen becomes, the less profitable it is to borrow it to buy risky assets, although after today's decision, BTC has so far gained about 1%.

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🇺🇸 NYSE is preparing a platform for 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks directly via blockchain, and Avalanche is being considered as one of the possible networks for the infrastructure.

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📊 Investors still consider Bitcoin significantly riskier than gold and more often buy options in case of BTC price drops.

JPMorgan believes — if demand for such insurance begins to decline, this will be a signal that the market expects fewer sharp drawdowns from Bitcoin.

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❌ The Linera network is shutting down due to lack of funds — the token sale raised approximately $900,000, but did not reach the minimum threshold, and the team was unable to find urgent funding.

However, the project previously raised approximately $12 million, including funds from a16z.

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🚓 Former China Construction Bank manager in Hong Kong received about 470,000 USDT for authenticating fake bank documents.

He processed 88 fraudulent letters of credit totaling over $1.6 billion — the court sentenced him to 4 years in prison and ordered him to return the money received to the bank.

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🦄 Founder Uniswap revealed that the team once refused to buy Uniswap․com for a seven-figure sum.

Later SBF bought the domain and used it to redirect to another project — eventually Uniswap's lawyers secured the transfer of the domain for free.

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🐋 Apple and Google are hiring employees for positions, related to stablecoins, as part of the development of their payment and financial business.

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🚀 On Bitfinex futures Bitcoin shot up above $150 000.

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🚓 A citizen of Ukraine is suspected of crypto fraud amounting to over $655,000 — according to police, he convinced the victim to invest money for "passive income," and transferred the funds to crypto wallets he controlled.

The fraudster was detained in Prague.

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🇪🇺 The European Central Bank has launched the service PONTES, which connects its payment system with the market for digital securities on the blockchain.

Through the new service, banks and investors will be able to conduct settlements in euro, backed by the ECB, and the regulator itself also plans to invest a portion of its own funds in such assets.

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