Daily Recap โ€” April 24 ๐Ÿ“Š

Lead stories

Polish crypto exchange Zondacrypto reported losing access to a wallet holding 4,503 Bitcoin (~$350M) โ€” according to the CEO, the former owner disappeared without transferring the keys

In the U.S., a soldier was arrested for participating in an operation targeting Nicolรกs Maduro while simultaneously betting on its outcome on Polymarket โ€” earning about $400,000 through insider knowledge

Adam Back said he made a bet that Bitcoin will reach $1,000,000 before the next halving in 2028

Ukrainian authorities uncovered a โ‚ด5B (~$114M) crypto laundering scheme linked to illegal casinos โ€” 10 individuals are involved

Inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs have continued for 8 consecutive days ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Anatoly Aksakov urged placing mining equipment in energy-surplus regions โšก๏ธ

DeFi projects launched the DeFi United initiative to support Aave after the KelpDAO exploit โ€” Lido, Golem, Mantle and others are ready to allocate a total of 43,500 ETH

DeepSeek released V4 (Pro and Flash) โ€” both versions support up to 1M token context, available on Hugging Face for local use ๐Ÿค–

The 344M USDT wallets frozen by Tether were linked to Iran

SPB Exchange launched trading of 10 perpetual futures โ€” including Amazon, Coinbase, Netflix, Tesla, AMD stocks, as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ripple, and Tron indices

Ethereum remains the leader in daily fees โ€” about $2.7M collected in the last 24 hours

A quantum computer demonstrated a real attack on elliptic curve cryptography โ€” a researcher recovered a 15-bit key and earned 1 BTC from Project Eleven

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