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🚬 CZ explained, why Binance is in no hurry to buy the closing BitMEX and BitMart — after the deal one can get hidden backdoors and vulnerabilities left by the previous team.

He advised users to either store crypto themselves, or choose a large exchange with a serious margin of safety.

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☔️ Storj Labs, which previously raised $35,000,000, announced a voluntary financial restructuring, effectively initiating bankruptcy proceedings to resolve accumulated debts.

Currently, the company will continue to operate as usual, and after the process is completed, the company's co-owners will include management, the community, STORJ token holders, and investors.

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☠️ Blockchain platform WEMIX was hacked for $6,250,000 — the attacker gained control over a smart contract, minted approximately 5.23 million WEMIX, and began withdrawing funds through bridges on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks, after which the team suspended bridge operations and requested exchanges to freeze the assets.

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🍏 Apple was sued in court over a fake wallet in the App Store — three users installed the fraudulent app and lost a total of $1,800,000 in BTC.

The plaintiffs claim that Apple advertised the store as safe, but failed to promptly remove the fake wallet, which the Sparrow developer had been warning about since 2024.

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🇺🇸 US seized $112,000,000 in cryptocurrency, linked to pig butchering scams where the victim is groomed for months, and then lured onto a fake investment platform.

Investigators untangled a web of transactions and identified points of withdrawal via centralized exchanges.

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🖥 Hydropower for the first time surpassed natural gas to become the main energy source for Bitcoin mining.

The share of low-carbon energy in the industry rose to 59.4%.

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🚬 BitMart announced its complete closure — starting July 26, the exchange will disable new registrations and deposits, and will completely cease operations on January 31, 2027.

Against the backdrop of this news, the BMX token crashed by approximately 50%.

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🖥 The CEO of the largest public miner MARA stated that with the same amount of electricity, AI data centers earn significantly more than Bitcoin mining.

Therefore, even the largest miners are increasingly looking towards AI infrastructure.

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☠️ Morning in crypto no longer starts with coffee, but with another hack — Triple-A lost $10,000,000 due to a hacker attack.

It seems that daily exploits have finally become part of the market routine.

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🇰🇵 North Korean hackers for the first time ROBBED their own Central Bank and the country's main foreign trade bank — the stolen money was withdrawn via crypto wallets and cashed out in China.

Especially ironic that former employees of state cyber units were behind the scheme.

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🇪🇺 Cryptocurrency exchange HTX (Huobi) Justin Sun's is included in the European Union's sanctions against Russia.

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💸 BitMEX accused of appropriating 623 BTC ($40,000,000) — BKX Services and investor David Namdar allege that the exchange forcibly liquidated their positions and sent the remaining funds to the insurance fund.

The lawsuit was filed in a New York court on the day BitMEX announced its impending closure.

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🦅 The Federation Council approved the law on legal purchase and exchange of cryptocurrencies in Russia —unqualified investors will be allowed to buy liquid coins up to 300,000 rubles per year through each intermediary, qualified — without limit.

Crypto exchangers will be included in a special register and obligated to hold no less than 15 million rubles of their own funds, while paying with cryptocurrency for goods and services will still be prohibited.

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🪙 Ripple introduced the Mint platform for the institutional adoption of the stablecoin RLUSD — the service allows clients to issue, redeem, and manage RLUSD via a unified interface or API.

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🐄 In Brazil, they are already tokenizing even cows — a farm received almost $20,000 in credit, collateralized by ten animals with smart collars.

Now the bank sees the health and location of the "collateral" in real time — a cow has literally become a digital asset.

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🖥 Mining pool Poolin, once one of the largest in the world, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Earlier, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition was filed by Movement Labs, developer of the Movement blockchain.

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🏦 Sber will launch a digital depository for cryptocurrency operations by December 1.

There were also rumors that Sber plans to launch its own crypto wallet.

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🗽 The adoption of the CLARITY Act, which is intended to establish clear rules for regulating the crypto market in the US, is likely to be postponed until September.

Meanwhile, the head of the US Treasury, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and Mike Novogratz are urging the adoption of the law as soon as possible, warning that without it, the US risks falling behind other countries, and after its approval, institutional investors could massively enter the crypto market.

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🇷🇺 Russian forex dealers want to give clients the opportunity to earn on changes in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without actually buying them — through CFD contracts.

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💰 User lost $3 000 000, allegedly by signing a phishing EIP-7702 transaction.

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