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Tether and the government of Georgia will launch GELT, the country’s official state-backed stable-value currency.
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The RWA market on Ethereum reached new all-time highs in two metrics at once — market capitalization and transaction count.
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Hackers exploited the smart contracts of European stable-value currency issuer StablR — the damage is estimated at around $10,000,000.
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A woman from Kaliningrad trusted a “crypto consultant” from a messenger app and lost 6,300,000 rubles — part of the money had even been borrowed from relatives.
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Vitalik Buterin wants the Ethereum Foundation to be not the “main boss of Ethereum,” but rather the guardian of its core principles.
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Iran has “in principle” agreed to abandon enriched uranium as part of the deal announced by Trump — according to NYT.
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“Financial tarot readers” and astrologers are increasingly appearing in Russian markets, offering to choose stocks based on cards, stars, and the “energy of the portfolio.”
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Google will integrate Gemini Omni into YouTube — the neural network will not only search for videos and answer questions, but also literally modify other people’s videos at the viewer’s request.
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Bolivia launched Bitcoin mining using an idle 127 MW gas-powered thermal power plant — the farm currently consumes around 27 MW and delivers 1.23 EH/s of hash rate.
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An Ethereum ICO participant holding 2,000 ETH became active again after 11 years of inactivity — in 2015, he bought the coins for just $620, while today they are worth around $4,230,000.
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A hacker attacked the Squid protocol on the Ethereum and Base networks — within just a few hours, 86 Gnosis Safe wallets were compromised, and the damage exceeded $3,000,000.
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Microsoft has begun limiting the internal use of AI — maintaining neural networks has become too expensive and, in some tasks, already costs more than regular employees.
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A miner from the Satoshi Nakamoto era transferred 2,650 BTC worth around $203 million to market makers FalconX and Cumberland — his wallets still hold around 6,000 BTC ($462 million).
