👨🏻‍💻 Stablecoins at Scale: Broad Adoption and Highly Concentrated Illicit Networks

Stablecoin activity exceeded USD 1 trillion in monthly transaction volume multiple times in 2025, reinforcing their role as core payment and settlement infrastructure rather than speculative trading instruments.

📌 In 2025, illicit entities received approximately USD 141 billion via stablecoin wallets, with the majority of this activity concentrated in financial crimes such as sanctions evasion and large-scale money laundering.

Sanctions-related activity accounted for 86% of all illicit crypto flows in 2025, driven largely by sanctioned wallets, exchanges, and networked payment platforms relying heavily on stablecoins.

📎 Stablecoin usage varies sharply by illicit category, with near-total adoption in illicit goods and services and laundering networks, compared to more selective use in scams, fraud, ransomware and other opportunistic crime types.

Professional facilitators and networked intermediaries — including guarantee services and front-company exchanges where up to 99% of volume is denominated in stablecoins — represent the primary locus of stablecoin-related illicit risk.

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👨🏻‍💻 Info Business and EdTech: What Is the Difference

Online education is a large and rapidly growing market that attracts millions of users. The number of online learning users is expected to reach 57 million in 2027. There are two main business segments associated with this field: the infopreneurship and EdTech.

🔎 Despite certain similarities, these areas have important differences. Below is a detailed overview of infopreneurship and EdTech, how to launch a project in each direction, and how to organize payment acceptance.

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💡 Five Crypto Exchanges are Helping Russia Evade Sanctions, Filling Garantex's Void: Elliptic

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified five Russia-linked crypto exchanges that continue to facilitate sanctions evasion, most of which have not yet been sanctioned themselves.

📌 One exchange, ABCeX, has processed at least $11 billion in crypto from an office in Moscow’s Federation Tower, the same building previously occupied by sanctioned exchange Garantex.

Another, Exmo, claimed to have exited the Russian market after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but on-chain data shows its Western and Russian-facing platforms share identical wallet infrastructure.

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👨🏻‍💻 How to Manually Create a Payment Invoice?

You can create an invoice in CryptoCloud in a few clicks. To create an invoice, go to the "Payments" section; at the top of the section, click on "Create Manual Invoice".

On the opened page, you will see the settings of the created invoice. Select the project for which you want to create an invoice as well as the payment currency, and specify the amount in the selected currency.

⏰ You can send the invoice to your client's email and set the invoice due time from 3 to 24 hours. We fix the price for this time to protect our merchants and their clients from the volatility of cryptocurrency rates.

In addition, you can set the regularity of sending the invoice to the client's email. When having set this parameter, the invoice will be automatically sent to the specified email. If the first invoice is not paid, the second invoice will not be sent again either.

💡 For each invoice, you can select the available payment methods.

After clicking on the "Create Manual Invoice" button, you will receive a payment link, which can then be sent to your client.

✅ You will be able to track the payment status of the invoice in the "Payments" section.

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🇹🇷 Turkish Ruling Party Proposes 10% Crypto Income Tax, Levy on Service Providers

Turkey's ruling AK Party proposed on Monday adopting ​a tax on cryptocurrency income and a transaction ‌levy on crypto asset service providers, in a draft law submitted to parliament.

💬 "Platforms must apply a 10% withholding tax on income ​and gains from crypto‑asset transactions on a quarterly ​basis," the text of the draft said.

Profits from ⁠crypto asset transactions conducted outside authorized platforms would ​be taxed through declaration in annual statements.

📌 Under the proposal, crypto ​asset service providers would pay a 0.03% transaction tax on sale and transfer transactions they conduct or mediate.

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🏦 Russian Central Bank Proposes Allowing Banks and Brokers to Obtain Crypto Licenses

The Bank of Russia has proposed allowing banks and brokerage firms to obtain licenses to operate crypto exchanges, a move that would place traditional financial institutions at the center of the country’s future regulated digital asset market.

📌 The proposal was outlined by Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina at an annual meeting with credit organisations. According to the regulator, existing financial institutions already have compliance infrastructure that could be used to supervise crypto transactions.

"We hope that the vast experience of banks in AML/CFT and fraud prevention will help protect your clients in the crypto market," Nabiullina said.

📎 Under the proposed framework, banks and brokers would be able to obtain crypto exchange licenses through a notification-based procedure rather than a separate licensing process. In practice, this would allow them to offer crypto services using their existing financial licenses.

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