🇪🇸 Spanish banking giant Bankinter has acquired a minority stake in cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me.

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🇮🇷 Iran plans to launch a national internet with restricted access, limited to government-approved websites and services — from search engines and messaging apps to domestic streaming platforms, an “Iranian Netflix” of sorts.

According to The Guardian, this network would be largely isolated from the global internet and fully controlled by the authorities. Access to the outside world would remain available mainly through illegal Starlink terminals, whose use in the country carries serious, potentially life-threatening risks.

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🇨🇳 In China, details have emerged in the case against Yao Qian — one of the architects of the digital yuan. The man allegedly kept hardware crypto wallets holding assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan in his office, relying on the supposed anonymity of cryptocurrencies.

Investigators found that in 2018 Yao Qian accepted a bribe of 2000 ETH for lobbying crypto projects. He converted part of the funds into cash and used them to purchase real estate in Beijing, registering the property in a relative’s name.

Authorities employed on-chain transaction analysis alongside traditional investigative methods. The official was expelled from the Communist Party of China and the case was referred to prosecutors, emphasizing that cryptocurrencies do not guarantee full anonymity — even in corruption schemes.

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Day's Summary, January 15

🇷🇺 The Central Bank of Russia plans to strengthen control over cross-border transfers, obliging banks to provide more information about citizens' foreign operations.

☠️ From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, of approximately 20.2 million launched tokens, 53% turned out to be scams or ceased to exist.

🗽 The Senate Banking Committee postponed discussion of the crypto market structure bill (CLARITY Act) after Coinbase exchange withdrew its support for the latest version of the bill.

🤖 OpenAI launched its branded AI translator ChatGPT Translate.

💎 The Fear & Greed Index for the first time since October 2025 moved into the greed zone (61).

🎲 Donald Trump stated that a Venezuelan insider who used information about Maduro has already been arrested and is in prison.

🍿 Despite the rise in BTC price, the tone of discussions on social networks is becoming increasingly pessimistic — Santiment.

🤖 OpenAI entered into a deal for the supply of computing power from Cerebras worth $10 billion — the company claims that its solutions provide performance "several times higher" than Nvidia chips.

🪙 A new activity record has been recorded on the Ethereum network — the number of transactions per day reached 2,600,000.

✖️ X (Twitter) is reviewing API access rules and prohibiting services that pay users for posts, explaining this by the increase in AI spam and a drop in content quality.

🇨🇳 In China, details of the case against Yao Qian — one of the architects of the digital yuan — have been revealed: the man kept hardware crypto wallets with assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan right in his office, counting on the anonymity of cryptocurrencies.

🪙 Analysts at Binance Research noted that in 2025 the market shifted from narratives to real scale, key from the report.

💸 BitMine, a company that regularly buys Ethereum, announced a $200,000,000 investment in blogger MrBeast's Mr Beast Industries.

🪙 Ripple invested $150,000,000 in LMAX to promote the RLUSD stablecoin in institutional markets.

🏛 The Fund – $27M+ cap, $200K+ liquidity

🇺🇸 Interactive Brokers introduces 24/7 account funding using USDC stablecoin — next week the company will add support for PYUSD from PayPal and RLUSD from Ripple stablecoins.

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🗽 The Bitcoin Policy Institute calculated that if only 1% of federal taxes were collected in Bitcoin, the US could accumulate a reserve of 4.2 million BTC by 2045.

This is possible within the framework of the Bitcoin for America Act, which allows for tax payments in BTC.

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🇮🇷 Iranian residents are massively buying Bitcoin due to the depreciation of the national currency — Chainalysis

The first cryptocurrency has become a way for Iranians to save their savings from hyperinflation and to get money that can be withdrawn abroad without banks and government control.

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🇲🇩 Moldova is preparing a law on cryptocurrency regulation in accordance with EU rules (MiCA), allowing ownership, trading, and exchange of digital assets, but prohibiting their use for payment for goods and services.

The law will introduce strict requirements for market participants, taxation of income from crypto operations, and enhanced measures to combat money laundering.

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🚓 In the Sverdlovsk region, three suspects were detained for illegally connecting mining equipment to power grids — the damage exceeded 16 000 000 rubles.

During operational-investigative activities at several addresses, more than 10 000 units of equipment were discovered.

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🇧🇾 A new decree on cryptocurrencies has been signed in the Republic of Belarus: it legalizes the activities of crypto banks and updates the rules for the circulation of digital tokens.

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