Russia's Crypto Law Is Two Votes From Rewriting Sanctions Geography
Russia's first comprehensive crypto legislation would license exchanges, cap retail at $3,800/year, and open a legal corridor for sanction-busting cross-border payments.…
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Russia's first comprehensive crypto legislation would license exchanges, cap retail at $3,800/year, and open a legal corridor for sanction-busting cross-border payments.…
Bitcoin miner IREN jumped 16% after signing $2.8B in new AI developer contracts and raising its year-end AI cloud revenue target above $4 billion.…
Crypto wallet maker Exodus is laying off a quarter of its workforce, targeting $10M–$13M in savings to finance a pivot toward card issuance and payments infrastructure.…
Moscow is pushing to complete a crypto regulatory framework targeting international transactions by year-end 2026, as prediction markets give Bitcoin just a 2.2% shot at $200K.…
Russia's State Duma is set to finalize crypto legislation on July 21 that would limit domestic Bitcoin demand, as prediction markets price $200K BTC by year-end at just 2.2%.…
An attacker drained $1.65M from Allbridge's Solana stablecoin pools using a $1.12M Kamino flash loan, then bridged the proceeds to Ethereum.…
Across, Allbridge, and TeleSwap lost a combined $5.7M to exploits within a single week, renewing urgent questions about cross-chain bridge security.…
Chainalysis data shows crypto payments to gray-market peptide vendors surged 159% to $32M in Q1 2026, with stablecoins overtaking Bitcoin as the preferred rails.…
Russia's legislature is advancing a bill targeting crypto fraud, with the State Duma's financial markets chief framing it as a crackdown on illegal cryptocurrency use domestically.…
The Federal Reserve's latest reverse repo operation totaled just $30M with 6 counterparties — a staggering collapse from the $2 trillion peak that carries profound implications for crypto markets.…
Nigeria's president has signed an executive order creating a virtual asset council and tackling the country's fragmented crypto regulatory landscape.…
Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack says the CLARITY Act is 'on the one-yard line,' with Democrats pushing stronger consumer protections as a Senate vote nears.…