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Russia plans to introduce a “cooling-off period” for cryptocurrency withdrawals from regulated digital depositories.
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Yesterday, USDT temporarily lost its peg to the dollar on Coinbase, reaching its lowest level since 2022.
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Claude Opus 4.8 has been released — Anthropic’s new model became more “honest” when working with code: it notices its own mistakes more often, handles large tasks better, and allows users to choose the depth of reasoning for requests.
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The Central Bank of Russia wants to strictly limit banks’ investments in crypto — the cap would be no more than 1% of a banking group’s capital.
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A failure occurred in the Sui blockchain — the network was down for more than 3 hours.
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The United States launched a new strike against Iran and imposed sanctions on the agency controlling the Strait of Hormuz, while Israel carried out one of its most powerful attacks on Lebanon in recent times.
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Ukrainian police officers organized an armed group targeting crypto entrepreneurs.
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), together with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, JPMorgan, Visa, and Mastercard, is launching tests of real cross-border blockchain payments.
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The Superfortune project accidentally sent an airdrop to a hacker — during a multisig transaction, the attacker replaced the recipient address, causing the tokens to be sent to a non-official project wallet.
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Samsung will invest more than $400,000,000 in the operator of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit.
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Mining company TeraWulf announced the purchase of a site in Kentucky — the firm plans to build a data processing center there with a total capacity of up to 1 GW.
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A Google employee was accused of using the company’s internal data for betting on Polymarket — according to U.S. authorities, he earned around $1,200,000 almost risk-free by knowing future Google Search trends in advance.
