World

French Crypto Crime Surge: A Regulatory Pressure Cooker France has a crypto crime problem, and the jump is hard to brush off: 77 reported incidents since January 1, 2026, compared with 45 in all of 2025. That is the part I keep coming back to. These are not wallet-draining phishing email ...

Russian ruble dollar exchange rate volatility: what it means for crypto A sharp drop in the Russian ruble against the US dollar would make Bitcoin's safe haven pitch harder to ignore. A Russian analysis is asking what would need to happen for the dollar to trade at 120-1 ...

VTB Crypto Depository Plans Point to Russia's Next Crypto Step VTB Bank says it wants to build a digital depository for crypto operations. Andrey Yatskov, head of the bank's brokerage services department, said the service depends on Russia putting the rules in place firs ...

Securitize tokenizes $295M shares on Solana, Avalanche as RWA adoption picks up Securitize tokenized $295,000,000 of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche. That is not a sandbox demo. It is a regulated equity product placed on public chains, which gives the real world asset (RWA) trade ...

The Economist on July 4th: Holiday Trading and Crypto's Macro Test The Economist's July 4-10 cover lands right as US markets shut for the Independence Day break on Friday, July 3. For traders, that timing matters more than the artwork. Stocks stop. Bonds stop. Crypto does not. Bitcoin and ...

Trump's crypto income and US leadership: a billion-dollar bet Donald Trump says he does not know much about his crypto income. He also wants the US to lead the sector. That pairing is awkward. I'll be honest: once reports put his crypto holdings above $1 billion, the "not involved" line ...

Moscow Exchange crypto trading 2026: Russia's adoption signal The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) plans to launch crypto trading by the end of 2026. That matters. It is not, in my view, a market earthquake yet. Igor Marich announced the plan at the Central Bank's Financial Congress, and the messa ...

THENA tokenomics update points to DeFi expansion and BNB Chain integration THENA, one of the larger protocols on BNB Chain, announced a tokenomics change that adds 32,610,000 THE tokens, equal to 10% of the original max supply. My take: that is not a footnote. The team says the extra su ...

BNB Chain AWS AI platform points to fresh developer interest "BNB Chain's new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch an AI agent creation platform gives the BNB ecosystem a real adoption signal." The announcement landed today, and crypto traders will read ...

T-Bank Crypto Trading Plans Could Change Russian Crypto Access T-Bank plans to add crypto trading to its mobile app, putting digital assets in front of everyday Russian bank customers. Russia's T-Bank wants users to buy and sell crypto in its own app by the end of the y ...