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Animoca Brands has secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider licence from Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, enabling it to expand regulated crypto services across the Middle East.

Russia’s deputy finance minister Ivan Chebeskov said roughly 50 billion rubles in crypto transactions occur daily, amounting to more than 10 trillion rubles, or about $129 billion, annually outside regulatory oversight.

Bitcoin has fallen 22.3% since the start of the year to around $68,000, putting it on course for its worst first quarter performance since the 2018 bear market.

Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran is leveraging a meme coin on Solana to amplify his long-shot Democratic primary challenge against incumbent Mark Warner.

Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong said a proposed ban on stablecoin rewards under the CLARITY Act would ironically make the exchange more profitable.

Virginia has passed legislation imposing licensing, transaction limits and consumer protections on crypto kiosks, with the bill now awaiting the governor’s signature.

Kevin O'Leary has won a $2.8 million defamation judgment against crypto influencer Ben Armstrong after a Florida federal court entered a default ruling in his favour.

Zcash is testing the key $300 psychological level as 30% of its total supply moves into shielded addresses, a shift that could tighten circulating float and support further upside.

Crypto hackers are targeting hardware wallet users by mailing fake letters impersonating Trezor and Ledger in a bid to steal wallet recovery phrases and drain funds.

Aave Labs chief executive Stani Kulechov said decentralised finance could tap a $50 trillion market in “abundance assets” by 2050, positioning tokenised solar and energy infrastructure as a new class of onchain collateral.

Strategy plans to convert $6 billion of convertible bond debt into equity over the next three to six years, a move founder Michael Saylor said would strengthen the balance sheet and reduce leverage.

Blockstream chief executive Adam Back has opposed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, arguing that efforts to curb Ordinals-style transaction spam could undermine the network’s credibility and risk freezing user funds.