🇮🇳❌💰💰 India bans privacy coins like Monero and Zcash to fight money laundering

India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) has instructed reporting entities to refrain from permitting deposits or withdrawals of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero and Zcash.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) says these coins make it too easy to hide transactions, which could help with money laundering or terror funding.
Now, all 49 registered crypto platforms must follow strict new rules announced on January 8, 2026.

According to a report by ET, Privacy cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Zcash, and Dash were highlighted by industry participants as being affected by the restrictions. Regulators argue that the cryptographic features used by these tokens, including stealth addresses and transaction obfuscation, pose challenges for anti-money laundering compliance.

Under the FIU’s framework, exchanges are expected to treat dealings in such tokens as non-permissible within their risk-mitigation policies.

https://www.tradingview.com/news/coinpedia:f99e424aa094b:0-monero-and-zcash-face-restrictions-as-india-cracks-down-on-privacy-cryptos/

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#BREAKING | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 — U.S. President Trump has proposed that Ukraine cede control of parts of the Donbas region to Russia.

— In exchange, Ukraine would receive substantial financial aid for reconstruction (up to $800 billion mentioned in related reporting) and long-term security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe to deter future aggression.

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺❗️ — The Nightmare of the Reds became reality: Politico reports US is considering a Total and unlimited blockade on Cuban Oil imports

➡️ The Trump administration is weighing new tactics to drive regime change in Cuba, including imposing a total blockade on oil imports to the Caribbean country, three people familiar with the plan said Thursday.

➡️ That escalation has been sought by some critics of the Cuban government in the administration and backed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to two of the three people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive discussions.

➡️ No decision has been made on whether to approve that move, but it could be among the suite of possible actions presented to President Donald Trump to force the end of Cuba’s communist government, these people added.

🔗 Source: Politico

🇫🇷🇦🇪🚫 — Air France has cancelled two upcoming flights to Dubai, United Arab Emirates

🇬🇧🇦🇪🚫 — British Airways has cancelled all its evening flights to Dubai, United Arab Emirates

🇳🇱🇮🇱✈️🚫 — Dutch Airline KLM cancells flights for UAE and Saudi Arabia as well

🔵📈🍕Extreme Pizza, one of the closest pizzerias to the Pentagon, is reporting high traffic.

Most other pizzerias reporting very low traffic.

As of 2:30pm ET

https://x.com/PenPizzaReport/status/2014783135997702570

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🇫🇷🇮🇱✈️🚫 — Israeli Channel 12 reports that Air France has also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv

https://news.1rj.ru/str/newssil/188484

🇨🇭🇮🇱🚫 — :Swiss (LX256) Zurich to Tel Aviv has been cancelled.

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🥈 📈‼️ SILVER Futures at COMEX surpassed today, January 23, 2026, for the first time in history $102/oz, reaching a new All Time High at $102.345/oz!

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🥇📈🚀 BTW GOLD FUTURES is approaching $5000/oz

🇨🇳🛩‼️🇹🇼— 📰 Financial Times | China flies drone into Taiwan’s airspace for first time | Surveillance flight over disputed atoll highlights Beijing’s growing aerial capabilities | January 17, 2026:

"China’s military has escalated its campaign of pressure against Taiwan by violating the island nation’s airspace with a drone for the first time.

A Chinese surveillance drone entered the airspace of Pratas, a Taiwan-controlled island in the South China Sea also known as Dongsha, for four minutes on Saturday.

The unmanned aerial vehicle was a WZ-7 known as ‘Soaring Dragon’ according to a Taiwanese national security official. It flew at an “altitude outside the range of our air defence weapons and left following warnings Taipei broadcast via international radio channels”, Taiwan’s defence ministry said in a statement.

Analysts said the move highlighted Taiwan’s difficulties in countering China’s high-end drone capabilities and allowed Beijing to further undermine the country’s sovereignty.

“China has found another soft spot,” said Kitsch Liao, an associate director at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. “They can repeat this to demonstrate that they can enter Taiwan airspace with impunity. And what do you do if they start flying lower and lower? If you decide to shoot the drone down when it comes into range, China can blame Taiwan because it didn’t do anything before.”

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🇨🇦🇮🇱✈️🚫 — Air Canada cancells its flights for Israel as well
https://news.1rj.ru/str/newssil/188487

💰⚡️ Today marks an inflection in the Ethereum Foundation's long-term quantum strategy.

We've formed a new Post Quantum (PQ) team, led by the brilliant Thomas Coratger (@tcoratger
). Joining him is Emile, one of the world-class talents behind leanVM. leanVM is the cryptographic cornerstone of our entire post-quantum strategy.

After years of quiet R&D, EF management has officially declared PQ security a top strategic priority. Our journey began in 2019, with the "Eth3.0 Quantum Security" presentation at StarkWare Sessions. Since 2024, PQ has been central to the @leanEthereum
vision. The pace of PQ engineering breakthroughs since then has been nothing short of phenomenal.

https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/2014791629408784816

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🇮🇱 — Plane flying from Madrid to Tel Aviv does a U-turn away from Israeli airspace!