UK Sanctions Crypto Exchanges Targeting Russia Sanctions Evasion
The move extends the UK sanctions toolkit from TradFi into on-chain venues — Bitpapa, EXMO, Aifory, Rapira, and Garantex's EU arm all hit, with Elliptic calling it a structural first.
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The move extends the UK sanctions toolkit from TradFi into on-chain venues — Bitpapa, EXMO, Aifory, Rapira, and Garantex's EU arm all hit, with Elliptic calling it a structural first.
Seven-day outflows from spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs ran past $770M combined, but spot Solana products kept adding — a divergence that hints where allocators are parking incremental exposure right…
A 64,000-person island just executed the first credible sovereign-grade onchain economy pilot — airdropping USDC to citizens, taking crypto at the DMV, and rewriting property law for smart contracts.
Socket's TrapDoor disclosure named 34+ malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates.io targeting developer machines, CI/CD credentials and AI coding files — the control plane a smart-contract audit…
The product pipes Base wallets into ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor via the Model Context Protocol, with Uniswap, Morpho, Moonwell and Avantis on board at launch — turning chat interfaces into a…
Spain's gambling regulator has blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi, citing the platforms' failure to hold the…
The May rally tracks real protocol substance — automatic network scaling lands in June and the AI-agent use case is what the upgrade is being built for.
1,109 BTC at ~$77K lifts Strive to 16,500 coins and the No. 7 public-corporate rank — the first US treasury to layer daily-dividend SATA preferreds on top of a debt-free BTC stack.
A third-party multisig module — not Squid's own contracts — was the attack surface, and the $6M raise from Ripple's $3M slot becomes a painful backdrop rather than a marquee win.
The 1-gigawatt Muskie campus isn't the story — it's the quote underneath it: TeraWulf's CEO is making the case that power and transmission, not chips, are the binding AI constraint.
Vivek Ramaswamy's asset management firm Strive has acquired 1,109 Bitcoin valued at approximately $85 million, marking…
It's the first time the UK has used its crypto-specific Regulation 17A against an exchange, a structural signal that goes well beyond one venue in a small token's market cap.
The prediction is conditional, not declarative: a $1.80–$2.00 breakout is the gate, Bitcoin has to hold, and XRP must stay above $1.00 — none of which has happened yet with the deadline roughly 35…
The treasury now holds 5.39M ETH worth $11.4B — second-largest crypto treasury behind Strategy — and Chairman Tom Lee frames every pullback as a continued accumulation window rather than a reason to…
A 111,942-ether weekly haul — the largest since December — comes weeks after Lee told Consensus 2026 the firm would slow its buying, framing ETH's dip below $2,200 as an attractive entry rather than…
The framework mirrors securities oversight under the "same business, same risks, same rules" doctrine — completing the final leg of Hong Kong's digital asset regime before a 2026 legislative push.
BitMine acquired 111,942 ETH last week, pushing its total holdings to 5.39 million ETH — equivalent to 4.47% of…
Wang's pitch is that the gap between what experts know and what retail can process is now an addressable UX problem — and that brokerages are structurally disincentivized to solve it themselves.
BitMine is now 89% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" — owning 4.47% of all ETH just 11 months in, with $10.1B of that already staked.
The 1,109-coin buy at ~$76,989 lifts total holdings to 16,500 BTC and a top-10 corporate ranking — and the ATM refresh on common and SATA preferred keeps the buying window open.