Daily recap — May 19

Lead stories

Russian lawmakers want to add AML-service regulation to the crypto bill and allow crypto exchange platforms to integrate with banks.

Rostelecom and Sberbank are launching the Web3Gate pilot platform for working with digital currencies and tokenized assets.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may approve tokenized stocks as early as this week — allowing traditional securities to be traded directly on the blockchain.

In Moscow, a man arrived for a cash crypto purchase meeting, but instead of the seller, he was met by three robbers — threatening him with a pistol, they stole a bag containing 2,000,000 rubles and fled.

Russian investors may soon be allowed to trade crypto on foreign exchanges through local brokers.

The Fear & Greed Index has once again dropped into the extreme fear zone (25).

A small neural network with 1.2 billion parameters unexpectedly defeated all major AI models in poker — simply because it played like a reckless gambling addict.

People continue leaving the Ethereum Foundation — following Tim Beiko and others, two more developers, Karl Bick and Julian Ma, have departed the foundation.

A Korean funeral services company invested customer prepayments into a risky 2x ETF tied to BitMine shares and is now facing an unrealized loss of around $33,000,000.

Cactus Compute introduced Needle — a local AI model occupying only 14 MB that can independently execute necessary functions without internet access or subscriptions.

Tether is entering the South Korean market — the company has filed seven trademark applications at once, including for its name, logo, and the gold-backed stable-value currency XAUT.

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