Daily recap — April 30

Lead stories

The United States announced the seizure of nearly $500,000,000 in Iranian crypto assets as part of Operation Economic Fury.

Jack Dorsey reminded that Bitcoin is not just money, but a tool against censorship, banking control, and dependence on intermediaries such as Visa and Mastercard.

Meta is launching payouts to content creators in stable-value digital currencies via Stripe.

Russia’s Federal Tax Service has begun массово removing miners from the simplified taxation system (STS) — even one-time mining may be treated as activity outside the special regime, transferring individual entrepreneurs to the general taxation system.

Tether aims to build a full-scale crypto corporation under a single brand.

Canada’s sovereign wealth fund has purchased $219,000,000 worth of shares in Strategy.

The next 1 billion users will enter crypto not for trading, but through real use cases — payments, yield-generating products, asset tokenization, and AI.

Tether has minted another 1,000,000,000 USDT today.

Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest miners in the U.S., is acquiring the energy company Long Ridge for $1.5 billion to obtain its own 505 MW gas power plant in Ohio.

Wasabi Protocol was hacked for $5,000,000 across the Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast networks.

April 2026 became a record month for DeFi hacks — within 30 days, protocols lost around $635,000,000 across 28 attacks.

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