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Россия остаётся одним из главных рынков для криптобирж — в апреле на неё пришлось 32% трафика Bybit (около 3.67 млн визитов из 11.41 млн).
На HTX доля российских пользователей тоже высокая — почти 25%, хотя общий трафик криптобирж за месяц просел более чем на 12%.

Exactly 16 years ago, Bitcoin mining first shifted to graphics cards — the developer demonstrated that GPUs compute hashes much more efficiently than regular processors.
This breakthrough launched a new era of mining — the network's hash rate increased by approximately 130,000% after switching from CPU to GPU.

Tokenized gold continues to gain momentum — only in the first quarter of 2026, the spot trading volume reached $90.7 billion, already surpassing the entire 2025 year with its $84.6 billion.
The main market volume is held by PAXG and XAUT — crypto investors are increasingly using "gold on the blockchain" as a familiar safe asset.

AgentCore Payments — a tool that will enable AI agents to pay for APIs, web content, MCP servers, and services of other agents autonomously.
Initially, payments will be made in USDC, and developers will be able to connect Coinbase or Stripe wallets, effectively giving bots their own budget to operate.

Square of Jack Dorsey announced that over 800,000 merchants are already accepting payments in BTC — new businesses are integrating Bitcoin payments approximately every 8 seconds: with no processing fee, touch-to-pay, and quick deposits

Corporates increased their BTC purchases to a record high in the first quarter of 2026— the total volume on balances reached 1.15 million BTC.
Despite the decline in the dollar value of portfolios, companies’ interest in bitcoin continues to grow.

Coinbase Australia launches support for cryptocurrencies for pension funds — this is a large market, as in Australia, such funds hold about $758 billion in assets, and now part of this money can be invested in digital assets.

Trading in Korean won accounted for about 30% of the global spot trading volume in the cryptocurrency market — it is the second-largest fiat market after the dollar.

Trading in Korean won accounted for about 30% of the global spot trading volume in the crypto market — it is the second largest fiat market after the dollar.

Google and Solana are launching a system where AI agents can find APIs themselves, pay for them with stablecoins, and operate without subscriptions, accounts, or unnecessary access — they plan to create infrastructure not for people, but for the bot economy, where the agent's wallet becomes its identity and payment tool.

Cryptocurrency card expenses have already reached $600,000,000 per month — with about 90% of transactions processed through Visa, which is increasingly focusing on crypto infrastructure rather than just traditional banks.

Следующий 1 миллиард пользователей придёт в крипту не ради трейдинга, а через реальные сценарии — платежи, доходные продукты, токенизацию активов и ИИ.
Рынок уже сейчас показывает совсем другой масштаб: предложение стейблкоинов превысило $320 млрд, а ежемесячный объём ончейн-транзакций достигает 7.2 трлн.
По оценке Binance, именно такой сдвиг в сторону практического применения может увеличить аудиторию крипты до 2 млрд пользователей к 2030 году.

The Federal Tax Service of Russia (FNS) has begun mass removal of miners from the USN (Simplified Taxation System) — even one-time mining can be treated as activity outside the special tax regime and lead to an individual entrepreneur (IE) being moved to the general taxation system.
The issue is that they recalculate not only income from mining, but the entire income of the entrepreneur for the year—instead of 6% or 15%, personal income tax (NDFL), VAT, and large additional tax assessments may be imposed.

Tether wants to build a full-fledged crypto corporation under one brand — Twenty-One Capital (XXI) plans to merge with Strike and the mining company Elektron Energy, ultimately making XXI not just a public holder of BTC, but an ecosystem with treasury management, mining, lending, financial services, and access to capital markets.
While the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, the company already has over 43,500 BTC on its balance sheet.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that he has long been an advocate of Bitcoin and considers it a tool for projecting power — in his opinion, crypto is already going beyond investments and becoming a factor of geopolitical influence.
The Pentagon is already working on how to utilize or contain this tool to avoid losing the advantage.

American senators have officially banned themselves from participating in betting on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
Unofficially, they can still gamble through relatives — brothers, wives, and even grandmothers, no one has included them in the list.

American senators have officially banned themselves from participating in betting on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
Unofficially, they can still gamble through relatives — brothers, wives, and even grandmothers, no one has included them in the list.

In Kazakhstan, more than 10,000,000 USDT have been frozen in connection with RAKS Exchange — one of the largest shadow crypto services in the CIS with a turnover of over $224 million.
According to AFM, transactions from more than 200 drug markets in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova went through the exchange — as part of the investigation, over 4,000 wallets were checked, and 3.2 million USDT have already been confiscated.

Следующий 1 миллиард пользователей придёт в крипту не ради трейдинга, а через реальные сценарии — платежи, доходные продукты, токенизацию активов и ИИ.
Рынок уже сейчас показывает совсем другой масштаб: предложение стейблкоинов превысило $320 млрд, а ежемесячный объём ончейн-транзакций достигает 7.2 трлн.
По оценке Binance, именно такой сдвиг в сторону практического применения может увеличить аудиторию крипты до 2 млрд пользователей к 2030 году.

In Kazakhstan, more than 10,000,000 USDT have been frozen in connection with RAKS Exchange — one of the largest shadow crypto services in the CIS with a turnover of over $224 million.
According to AFM, transactions from more than 200 drug markets in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova went through the exchange — as part of the investigation, over 4,000 wallets were checked, and 3.2 million USDT have already been confiscated.