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☠️ Hackers hacked the decentralized exchange Ostium for $18,000,000 — the attacker has already exchanged all stolen assets for 12,085 ETH.

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🗽 The USA will mint a gold coin with a face value of 1 dollar depicting Donald Trump for the country's 250th anniversary.

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🪙 Bitmine has almost entirely transformed into an Ethereum earning machine, for the quarter, ETH staking and validation brought in the company $45,700,000 — which is 98% of all revenue.

After transferring its entire reserves to staking, Tom Lee expects up to $284 million in annual income.

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📊 The great redistribution of old Bitcoins is almost complete — Galaxy Digital.

In 2024–2025, long-term holders moved the largest volume of "dormant" BTC since 2017; in 2026, the activity of old coins noticeably decreased — most of the movement has already occurred.

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🇯🇵 Japan officially classified cryptocurrencies into the category of "financial assets", effectively bringing their regulation closer to stocks and other investment instruments.

This could pave the way for greater participation of banks, funds, and institutional investors in the crypto market.

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☠️ Hackers hacked the official LayerZero wallet and withdrew crypto worth $2 400 000.

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🇷🇺 A transfer of 50 cents (35 rubles) became the reason for the client being added to the Bank of Russia's restrictions database and the subsequent blocking of banking operations.

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🦅 In Russia, they want to officially open access to USDT and USDC — starting September 1, 2026, qualified investors will be able to purchase them through Russian infrastructure.

At the same time, it is proposed to legally consider stablecoins not as cryptocurrency, but as foreign digital instruments — due to the issuers' obligation to redeem tokens.

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💸 Stripe and Advent International want to buy PayPal for more than $53 billion — a potential deal could become one of the largest acquisitions in fintech, but negotiations are still ongoing.

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🗑 Crypto exchanges continue to massively delist shitcoins — in Q2 2026, CEX delisted 475 assets, maintaining an average pace of 400–500 delistings per quarter.

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💸 The largest online broker Interactive Brokers continues to integrate crypto into traditional finance — the company added 9 new crypto assets and launched withdrawals of stablecoins USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD to external wallets.

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❄️ Tether blocked 4 addresses on the TRON network, linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which held about 131,000,000 USDT.

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🇺🇸 US Consumer Price Index (CPI), reflecting inflation, decreased to 3.5% — the figure last month was 4.2%.

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🇯🇵 Circle enters Japan's payment infrastructure — local giant JCB attracted the company to test stablecoins in cross-border transfers and business settlements.

In fact, the USDC issuer gets a chance to integrate into one of the country's largest payment networks.

Previously, Circle received approval to establish a National Trust Bank of the USA.

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🇦🇪 Strategy concluded a partnership with the UAE's largest digital insurance platform InsuranceMarket and will implement AI analytics there for data processing and decision-making.

For the company, known primarily for its huge Bitcoin reserves, this is a step towards developing business outside of BTC, although the deal cannot yet be called a full-fledged entry into the insurance market.

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🇮🇷 Iran's Parliament adopted a bill on sovereign control over the Strait of Hormuz — the document prohibits the passage of "hostile vessels" and provides for a system of duties in yuan, BTC, and stablecoins.

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🏦 About a third of the largest banks are already working with Bitcoin and digital assets — the current adoption level is estimated at 32%.

The new Bitcoin Bank Adoption Index from the President of Strategy shows — big money is already coming in, but the real banking transition to BTC is just beginning.

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🗽 The American state of New Hampshire has enshrined the right of residents to independently store cryptocurrency and prohibited authorities from imposing restrictions on digital asset transactions or separate fees for their use.

The law also protects mining, staking, and the operation of blockchain nodes, and a separate proceeding may be established for crypto disputes in courts.

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🪙 Binance US CEO stated, that the exchange is rebuilding its operations and aims to return to 20% market share in the US.

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✖️ The volume of tweets about BTC and ETH fell to a 12-month low, despite the boom in institutional investments in crypto.

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