Daily recap — May 13

Lead stories

Donald Trump is flying to China together with the heads of крупнейших U.S. companies — including the CEOs of NVIDIA, Apple, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Mastercard, Visa, Qualcomm, Meta, and Tesla.

Ethereum introduced Clear Signing — an open standard designed to replace “blind” signatures with clear descriptions of exactly what the user is approving.

Claude helped a user recover access to an old Bitcoin wallet containing 5 BTC that had remained untouched since 2015 — the user uploaded data from an old student computer, and Claude helped identify a likely password.

A 50-year-old resident of Kaliningrad handed nearly 7,000,000 rubles to scammers after believing in “crypto investments.”

During the first 11 days of May, Russians withdrew a record 210 billion rubles in cash from bank accounts — the highest figure since statistics began being published in 2011.

Bermuda will move part of its government financial services onto the Stellar blockchain to reduce fees and speed up payments.

Last summer, residents of Yekaterinburg attacked a courier from a crypto exchange service in an attempt to steal around 150,000 USDT in rubles — the suspects face up to 15 years in prison for armed robbery.

Vietnam is preparing to launch a regulated crypto market as early as 2026.

NVIDIA’s market capitalization has reached $5.45 trillion — already about twice the size of the entire crypto market, which stands at around $2.7 trillion.

Kyrgyzstan wants to allow banks into the crypto market — the Ministry of Economy has proposed permitting them to buy, sell, and exchange cryptocurrencies under the supervision of the National Bank.

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