💸 Coinbase and Mastercard have begun negotiations to acquire stablecoin issuer BVNK, with the deal valued between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion.

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🍷 Roger Ver, who was arrested in Spain last year, has reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice — charges of fraud and tax evasion will be dropped in exchange for a $48 million fine.

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🐳 Bank of America, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs are teaming up to launch a dollar-backed Stablecoin.

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🪒 Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market saw a record-breaking $19.3 billion in liquidations, the largest in history.

Arthur Hayes noted that automatic liquidations of collateral linked to cross-margin positions on a major CEX likely triggered the cascade that wiped out many altcoins.

He added that such deep levels on top-quality altcoins are unlikely to return anytime soon.

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🐳 CZ revealed the identity of the whale suspected of insider trading — it turned out to be the former head of the Bitforex exchange, with an estimated net worth of around $10 billion.

He denies all allegations, claiming he has no ties to the Trump family.

Now we’re waiting to see if CZ will drop any news about Hyperliquid.

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🪙 Bitcoin Core released a major update that sparked debate within the community. The key changes include optional encrypted connections between nodes and an increase of the OP_RETURN limit from 80 to 100 000 bytes, sharply expanding the amount of non-financial data in the blockchain.

This enables more complex applications but raised concerns about network congestion and legal risks. While the update does not alter the Bitcoin protocol, the discussions around it echo the 2017 “block size wars.”

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🪙 Bitmine acquired 202 037 ETH worth $834 million over the past week — bringing its total holdings to 3 032 188 ETH (approximately $12.9 billion at current prices).

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🐳 JPMorgan is planning to offer crypto trading for clients.

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🪙 Tether is entering a new phase of crypto wallet development.

This week, the company will launch its Wallet Development Kit (WDK) — an open-source framework for building non-custodial wallets. The kit includes a sample wallet for iOS and Android, showing how to create a custom crypto wallet in just a few hours.

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📊 Bitcoin has entered a calm phase — the market is cooling down but remains stable, according to Glassnode.

BTC continues to trade above its key 135-day moving average, suggesting no major downturn is expected. Meanwhile, the MVRV ratio for “young coins” (recently bought or mined BTC) has returned to 1.0 — a level where investors are, on average, neither in profit nor in loss.

Such conditions typically indicate that the market has paused after a rally, but the overall structure remains healthy: no signs of panic, just a period of consolidation before the next move.

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🗽 The U.S. is seeking the forfeiture of 127 271 BTC (around $14 billion) allegedly tied to a transnational “pig butchering” scam run by Chinese national Chen Zhi.

However, the bitcoins actually belong to the company LuBian, from whom hackers stole the funds back in 2020 — they’ve remained dormant ever since.

A Department of Justice representative confirmed that the government has access to the assets but declined to comment on how they were obtained.

Currently, the U.S. government holds 325 283 BTC, worth over $37 billion.

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🐳 Stripe adds crypto stablecoin payments for subnoscriptions.

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