DeCenter – Blockchain and Bitcoin

🏦 Crypto-friendly bank Erebor, backed by people from the inner circle of Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, is discussing a new funding round at a valuation above $8 billion.

The idea is simple — to create a bank for crypto companies and those startups, with whom traditional banks often don't want to deal .

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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia proposes a 48-hour cooling-off period for cryptocurrency transfers by unqualified investors to protect against fraud.

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🦅 Elvira Nabiullina stated that the Central Bank sees great potential for smart contracts for business, and banks and major companies are already ready for the widespread implementation of the digital ruble.

Also, the regulator is discussing the possibility of opening wallets with digital rubles on banks' balance sheets.

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🇫🇷 French Interior Minister announced 77 cases of attacks on crypto sphere participants in 2026 — for comparison, 45 such incidents were recorded throughout 2025.

Earlier in France, an employee of the tax service was arrested on charges of transferring confidential data about crypto investors to organized crime groups

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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of Russia has begun actively cooperating with crypto companies from Belarus, in order to develop clear rules for their operation in the Russian market, Chistyukhin stated.

The representative of the regulator also stated that the law on cryptocurrency regulation in Russia could come into force as early as September 1, 2026.

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🔺 The largest public company with an Avalanche reserve stated that it could go bankrupt — its shares have lost 93% of their value in the last year.

The company bought AVAX for approximately $265 million, but now the value of these reserves is only $120 million.

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🇯🇵 Metaplanet bought an additional 2823 BTC — now the company's balance is 43 000 BTC.

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😳 Cloudflare is launching Monetization Gateway, a tool that will allow users to charge for access to pages, APIs, datasets, and MCP tools directly through Cloudflare.

Payments will be made in stablecoins via the x402 protocol—essentially, the internet will have a built-in paid gateway without the need for a separate payment system.

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🪙 A company that only recently wanted to acquire $1 billion worth of bitcoins has fully exited BTC — K Wave Media sold its last 88 BTC to cover a $6 million debt.

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🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia is discussing whether stablecoins in the Russian Federation can supplement the digital ruble in international settlements — Nabiullina

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🐋 Ethereum now has a separate 'entry point' for big players — an organization Ethereum Institutional has been created, which will help banks, funds, and custodians understand Ethereum, L2, and tokenization.

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📉 Public token sales cooled down to a 4-year low — in Q2 2026, only 47 ICO/IDO/IEOs were held, raising $40 million.

Compared to the cycle's peak, the market literally collapsed — the amount of money raised fell by 95%, and the number of sales by almost 91%.

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🇪🇺 Which crypto exchanges received, and which did not receive permission to operate in the EU from July 1st (MiCA).

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☠️ SlowMist warned about a new attack on DeFi users and developers — scammers are publishing fake trading bots and DeFi packages, inside which a JavaScript stealer is hidden.

If such code is run, it can steal seed phrases, private keys, passwords, cookies, API tokens, and effectively give attackers access to wallets and accounts.

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🪙 Company FG Nexus conducted treasury trading of the "bought high, sold low" level — they acquired ETH at $3,860, and then began to dump it at approximately $2,138.

As a result — minus $86,600,000.

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🪒 Spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced their worst month since launch — in June, investors withdrew $4.5 billion from the funds, breaking the previous anti-record by 29%.

The BlackRock fund lost the most — $3.55 billion was withdrawn from IBIT, and the total ETF assets decreased from over $110 billion to $70.9 billion.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan has adopted one of the strictest crypto laws in Asia — all crypto exchanges are now required to obtain a license, and stablecoin issuers must hold 100% of their reserves in Taiwanese banks, undergo regular audits, and will not be able to pay interest to holders.

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🗽 Trump earned $1.1 billion in crypto through 2025, according to his financial disclosure statement.

The document also lists his stakes in crypto companies, as well as $100 million in BTC and ETH.

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⚡️ Anthropic is restoring access to Fable 5 and Mythos today, July 1st.

To lift the restrictions, the company agreed to cooperate with the US government on security issues, identify potential risks, and report malicious use of the models.

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🪙 Circle minted 1 000 000 000 USDC.

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