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💶 Since the beginning of this year, the volume of issued Euro stablecoins has increased to 425,000,000 Euro (+168%).

📱 The payment giant PayPal is filing an application to obtain a banking license in the USA.

🦊 In MetaMask they added support for Bitcoin.

💎 BitMine purchased an additional 102,259 ETH last week — the company now owns nearly 4,000,000 ETH worth $12.4 billion. At the same time, the average purchase price is $3,074, and there is still about $1 billion in the balance for further purchases.

🇧🇹 Bhutan signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding with the cryptocurrency market maker Cumberland for cooperation in the field of creating digital asset infrastructure. Earlier, we reported that Bhutan is launching a gold-backed token TER on the Solana blockchain.

💰 Strategy bought an additional 10,645 BTC at an average price of $92,098 per 1 BTC. Now, the company's balance is 671,268 BTC.

💰 Since the beginning of 2025, the number of active traders on the Solana network has sharply decreased — from 4.8 million to 680,000 (a 7-fold drop in the audience).

Ⓜ️ Visa is launching a consulting division on stablecoins. Earlier, Visa launched a pilot service, which allows companies to send payments in stablecoins to crypto wallets from fiat accounts.

💰 JPMorgan announced the launch of its first tokenized money market fund based on Ethereum. The product allows institutional investors to access a classic low-risk instrument (analogous to T-Bills and money market funds) in an on-chain format — with instant settlements, transparency, and programmability.

🇬🇧 The UK Ministry of Finance is developing rules that will, from 2027, place cryptocurrencies under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is also planned to ban political donations made using cryptocurrency.

👻 The Fear and Greed Index still remains in the zone of extreme fear — it is currently at the level of 16.

🗽 SEC released a simple guide for retail investors on how to safely store crypto assets. 🔴 Crypto is stored on the blockchain, and a wallet is just access to it via private keys. Lost the key — lost the funds. 🔴 A private key gives full control and is not recoverable. 🔴 Hot wallets are convenient but vulnerable to hacks; cold ones are safer, but less convenient and can be physically lost. 🔴 The seed phrase is critically important: it needs to be securely stored and not shared with anyone. 🔴 Self-custody means full personal responsibility for security. 🔴 Custodial services (exchanges) are more convenient but remove full control and carry risks of hacking or bankruptcy. 🔴 Regulation and insurance do not guarantee the safety of funds. 🔴 It's important to consider fees, privacy, and practice basic cyber hygiene (2FA, phishing protection, key confidentiality).

🔌 In St. Petersburg, they patented a charging station for electric cars, which simultaneously mines cryptocurrency.

💻 Hackers hacked the old wallets of the Aevo options exchange and stole $2,700,000.

🇻🇪 Venezuela — one of the most illustrative examples of how cryptocurrencies stop being an experiment and become a financial infrastructure. Against the backdrop of hyperinflation, sanctions, and a crisis of trust in banks, digital assets, primarily stablecoins, have begun to perform the basic functions of money: transfers, payments, and savings. This is not a story about trading or market growth, but about the survival of financial processes where the traditional system has ceased to function. The Venezuelan experience shows how crypto is starting to be used not "out of interest", but out of necessity.

🇧🇷 Itaú, the largest private bank in Brazil, recommends investors to allocate 1–3% of their portfolio to Bitcoin as a means of diversifying risks and hedging against currency exchange rate fluctuations.

🇮🇹 Tether wants to completely buy out the football club "Juventus" — the USDT issuer has already made an official offer. Paolo Ardino called the club "a part of his life" and a symbol of Italian excellence.

💰 Ripple has partnered with the Swiss bank Amina to promote its stablecoin RLUSD. Earlier, Ripple and Mastercard announced a partnership — in a pilot project, the RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger blockchain will be used for credit card payments.

🇧🇾 Bybit, BingX, Bitget, OKX, and other major cryptocurrency exchanges have disappeared from the list of blocked websites in Belarus.

💰 Tether will raise up to $20 billion, resulting in a company valuation of around $500 billion. The company also plans to engage in tokenization of assets.