Daily Summary — April 16

Lead stories

The Russian exchange Grinex suffered a large-scale cyberattack, resulting in over 1 billion rubles stolen.

The Central Bank of Russia opposed allowing officially purchased cryptocurrency to be withdrawn to personal non-custodial wallets.

The MOO token presale is ending — less than one day remains, and the current price of $0.0055 is nearly 6x lower than the announced listing price of $0.03.

Ukrainian law enforcement detained a member of an international hacker group that targeted companies in Europe and the U.S. The suspect laundered over $100 million obtained from ransom payments by converting funds into crypto and investing in real estate and assets in Ukraine.

Less than 1% of crypto projects disclose their terms of working with market makers.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 — its most powerful publicly available model.

Anatoly Aksakov stated that he believes in crypto.

The Trump-linked World Liberty Financial project proposed strict new rules — early investors will only be able to access their tokens after 4 years, and those who refuse may have their assets frozen permanently.

Miners sold around 61,000 Bitcoin this year — about 3% of total holdings.

Circle, the issuer of USDC, stated that it sees “huge opportunities” in creating a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese yuan.

Bitcoin is still officially banned in only a few countries — including China, Algeria, Egypt, Bangladesh, Morocco, Iraq, and Qatar, although regulations change quickly in some places.

Drift Protocol will receive $127,500,000 from Tether to restore user funds.

At Blockchain Forum 2026, A7A5 project lead Leonid Shumakov (Leonid Shumakov) stated that despite discussions about decentralization, the crypto market is still almost entirely dependent on the US dollar.

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