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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.

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.

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.

With the help of stablecoins, more than $1 trillion was transferred in April — by 2026, the monthly transfer volume has never fallen below this mark.

Ethereum — the only true stablecoin:
April 26, 2021: $2 328
April 27, 2026: $2 328
Five years, thousands of updates, ETFs, DeFi, staking, and L2 couldn't even offset inflation.

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Out of the 41 tokens that were listed on exchanges in 2025, only 6 are currently trading above their listing price.
The rest are in the red — projects are launching too early when they still lack proper liquidity, demand, and token distribution.

Cambodia has decided to sharply intensify its fight against crypto scammers: the parliament approved a law under which the organizers and participants of scam centers face 2 to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $125 000, and for working as part of a group — twice as much.

The Solana Foundation has introduced Solana Agent Skills — a set of ready-to-use functions for AI agents that enable them to interact with the Solana blockchain with just one line of code.
There are already over 60 skills included: from security checks and bug fixes to managing DeFi portfolios, trading, and testing applications.

Trump stated that he previously gave Iran ten days to reach a deal, and now, according to him, there are 48 hours left until "true hell" if an agreement is not reached.
This is one of Trump's most hardline statements towards Iran in recent times.