Daily recap — April 29

Lead stories

Anton Gorelkin stated that under the proposed bill, Russians will be able to continue using crypto wallets on foreign services, but all transactions will have to be reported to the Federal Tax Service (FTS).

An early participant of the Ethereum ICO with a balance of 10,000 ETH became active after 11 years of inactivity.

Andreessen Horowitz crypto tested whether AI agents can independently hack DeFi systems — without guidance, only 10% of attacks were successful, but with a knowledge base of past exploits, the success rate increased to 70%.

The Russian government has approved a bill on the taxation of cryptocurrencies and digital financial assets (DFAs).

The head of the Czech National Bank supported the idea of adding BTC to central banks’ strategic reserves, although noting that it remains an unusual and risky asset for regulators.

Forbes published a feature on Eric Trump and his mining company American Bitcoin.

The Canadian government plans to ban crypto ATMs as part of anti-fraud measures — at the same time, the country remains one of the largest markets, with around 4,000 machines (about 10% of the global total).

In Kazakhstan, more than 10,000,000 USDT has been frozen in connection with the RAKS Exchange case — one of the largest shadow crypto services in the CIS, with a turnover exceeding $224 million.

The Polish crypto exchange Zondacrypto, which previously reported losing access to a wallet holding 4,503 BTC, may be under the control of the “Tambov” organized crime group — in 2018, representatives of the group acquired a controlling stake in the exchange, then known as BitBay.

Visa has added the Polygon blockchain to its global settlement program for stable-value digital currencies.

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