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🇺🇸 The USA has for the first time permitted the launch of crypto "perps" on licensed platforms — previously, the huge market for perpetual futures effectively bypassed American investors.

Following the CFTC's decision, Kalshi and Coinbase were the first to announce the launch of such instruments for US clients.

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🛡 Trust Wallet integrated futures and prediction markets from Hyperliquid.

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🤣 Claude Opus 4.8 was hacked just 7 minutes after its release — and it was done by the previous version, Claude Opus 4.7.

The old model managed to bypass the new one's security and extract answers it wasn't supposed to give.

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🏪 The world's largest derivatives exchange CME is switching to 24/7 trading of crypto futures and options.

Because of this, the famous "CME gap" may disappear — price gaps in Bitcoin after weekends, which many traders have relied on for years in market predictions.

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🗽 The U.S. government is gradually dumping crypto confiscated from FTX — over the past 2 days, authorities transferred approximately $5,300,000 in assets to Coinbase.

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🪙 Strategy staked deposited 411.5 BTC ($30.3 million) to Coinbase Prime — on Polymarket, the probability that Strategy will sell BTC before December 31, 2026, has reached 84%.

Earlier, Saylor hinted several times that the company will sell coins from time to time to maximize profit in BTC per share.

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☠️ DEX protocol DxSale was hacked for $7 300 000 — about 1400 LP pools were affected in BNB Chain, part of the funds has already been converted to BNB and started to be deposited to Binance deposit addresses.

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⛔️ A malfunction occurred on the Sui blockchain — new blocks are not being produced for more than 2 hours.

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⚖️ A Google employee was charged with using internal company data for betting on Polymarket — according to US authorities, he earned approximately $1,200,000 with almost no risk, by knowing future Google Search trends in advance.

The engineer tried to cover his tracks using mixers and exchangers, but the FBI linked his wallets to his real identity — now he faces charges of fraud and money laundering.

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🔫 Ukrainian police organized an armed gang to hunt crypto entrepreneurs.

Current and former security officials kidnapped people, threatened them with weapons, and extorted millions of dollars.

One of the victims was forced to sign a fictitious "debt" for $5,000,000.

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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation wants to strictly limit banks' investments in crypto, with a limit of no more than 1% of the banking group's capital.

When calculating capital, crypto assets will be considered almost maximally risky — with a weight of 1250%, because the regulator sees threats not only in volatility, but also in the possible blocking of such assets.

Client crypto will not fall under the limit, if the bank simply stores it as a custodian, but security requirements will still be strengthened due to the risks of hacks and loss of access.

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🇰🇷 Samsung invests over $400,000,000 in the operator of the Korean crypto exchange Upbit.

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🖥 Mining company TeraWulf announced the acquisition of a site in Kentucky — the firm plans to build a data center here with a total capacity of up to 1 GW.

Like many other miners, TeraWulf changed its business profile from crypto asset mining to providing AI firms with infrastructure for training their models.

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🪙 USDT lost its peg to the dollar on Coinbase yesterday, hitting a new 2022 low.

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🚬 Superfortune project accidentally sent an airdrop to a hacker — during a multisig transaction, the attacker swapped the recipient's address, and the tokens did not go to the project's official wallet.

Following the incident, the GUA token crashed by 75% in just one day.

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🏦 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) together with the NY Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, JPMorgan, Visa, and Mastercard is launching tests of real cross-border blockchain payments.

Essentially, the largest banks and payment giants are starting to test how blockchain can work for international transfers with real money.

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🇮🇷 The US carried out a new strike on Iran and imposed sanctions on the agency controlling the Strait of Hormuz, while Israel conducted one of its most powerful attacks on Lebanon recently.

Against the backdrop of escalation, the crypto market sharply declined — almost $500 million in long positions were liquidated in an hour, and Bitcoin fell below $72,900.

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⚡️ Polymarket wants to introduce mandatory identity verification (KYC) for traders amid regulatory pressure and sanctions risks.

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🇮🇹 Banca Sella, one of Italy's largest banks with assets of €34 billion, became the first bank in the country with a license for storing and transferring crypto assets.

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⚖️ The State Duma of the Russian Federation **adopted** in the first reading a draft law on punishment for illegal mining — this refers to cases where, as a result of such activity, large-scale income (over 3.5 million rubles) has been obtained, or damage of a similar amount has been caused to citizens, organizations, or the state.

Such crimes will be punishable by a fine of up to 1.5 million rubles, mandatory work for 480 hours, or forced labor for up to 2 years.

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