▪️Unfortunately, in recent years, especially under the Biden Administration, the U.S. has sold a lot of BTC, but from now on, there will be a rule that they will only accumulate and not sell. ▪️The BTC reserve will become a digital Fort Knox ▪️The federal government has a total of 200,000 BTC ▪️We want to complete legislation on stablecoins before the August recess ▪️The Treasury and the Department of Commerce will explore possible ways to acquire additional bitcoin reserves ▪️We will maintain the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, including through digital assets#TrumpCryptoSummit
Vladimir Smirkis, co-founder of the crypto game Blum, has been arrested in Moscow.
The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sanctioned the arrest of the former head of the Binance exchange for the CIS and co-founder of the crypto game Blum, Vladimir Smirkis, in a criminal case of large-scale fraud.
The arrest may be related to projects from previous years, in which clients lost at least 15 million dollars.
In 2017, he created The Token Fund — one of the first cryptocurrency investment funds. Where investors purchased the internal token TKN for real crypto, and in return received a promise to multiply their money. The project raised eight million dollars in investments, earned more on the rise of crypto, and suddenly closed in 2018. Clients did not receive their money.
Smirkis's next project was Tokenbox. It received 7 million dollars in investments, the TBX token was listed on two exchanges at once, almost instantly depreciated, and vanished into oblivion.
On May 16th, Vladimir Smirkis was arrested on charges of fraud. #blum #scam
🇬🇧 The UK government has introduced a draft of new rules for cryptocurrencies - they plan to introduce separate licenses for activities such as operating cryptocurrency exchanges and issuing stablecoins.
They are currently discussing how exactly this will work.
Durov was gifted an NFT frog for 4 million rubles.
The head of Telegram Pavel Durov received one of the most expensive NFT gifts in the messenger ecosystem — Plush Pepe #1 from the Plush Pepes collection. According to the Telegram channel 'Durov's Code', the sender is the founder of the OTC marketplace for gifts in the messenger Mr. FreeMan. The purchase of the token on the secondary market cost him 14,850 TON (4 million rubles or $47,000).
According to observations by the Twitter user known as cpt n3mo, since the beginning of 2024, in 6 out of 7 cases when the daily influx of funds into the BTC ETF was around $1 billion, the price of BTC decreased over the next 3-5 days.
Will this happen again? On April 22 and 23, 2025, the investment in the BTC ETF again exceeded $900 million on each of those days.
Cryptocasino turnover exceeded $81 billion in 2024.
Crypto casino revenue will reach $81.4 billion in 2024, which is five times higher than in 2022. Such data was provided by the analytical platform Yield Sec. The operation of such services is banned in regions such as the US, China, the EU and the UK. However, players are massively bypassing the blocking using VPNs, mirrors or redirecting links, writes the Financial Times. Accounts are also sold on P2P markets.
Opinion: The crypto market is holding back amid the geopolitical struggle between the U.S. and China.
Bitcoin will continue to consolidate in the range of $80,000–90,000. By the end of April, the U.S. Treasury will add another $100 billion to the financial system. The correlation between the crisis rate and global liquidity change is 83%. In options trades expiring by June, puts dominate — market participants are hedging, fearing that the U.S.-China trade war will bring new ‘surprises’. This is stated in the QCP Capital report.
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in chips for bitcoin wallets.
The popular microcontroller used in billions of IoT devices and crypto wallets contains serious vulnerabilities that threaten bitcoin theft. The vulnerability, which received the identifier CVE-2025-27840 in the NIST database, affects the ESP32 chip used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The bug allows attackers to permanently infect microcontrollers via updates, providing opportunities for future attacks.
Reuters reported on Russia's intention to create its own stablecoins.
Russia should develop its own stablecoins tied to different currencies. This was stated by Osman Kabaloev, Deputy Director of the Department of Financial Policy, according to Reuters. His words came against the backdrop of the blocking of Russia-related 'stablecoins' USDT. This refers to the freezing of assets on the Garantex exchange by Tether.
DeFi and stablecoins have already proven the strength of Ethereum. But to continue growing, a new powerful driver is needed.
There is increasing talk that the next narrative will be the combination of Ethereum + AI.
Why does this make sense? AI is currently developing like the Wild West — black boxes, centralized models, zero privacy. And this is where Ethereum has an advantage:
– Transparency: smart contracts allow for the verification of AI code and data. – Decentralization: no single corporation controls everything. – Payment infrastructure: micropayments, rewards, access to data.
If users, businesses, and regulators start demanding verifiable AI — decentralized platforms (first and foremost Ethereum) will be ready to meet this need.
This is a real chance for ETH. To bring the hype back to the chain — Ethereum needs new fresh hype narratives. It seems that going through the old ones is no longer an option. The market is such that it grows where there is something new and about the "future." AI decentralization is just the chance for our "favorite."#BinanceAlphaAlert