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According to the Central Bank of Russia, 53.5% of all imports to the country were paid for with Russian rubles in February, marking a historic record. Currencies from unfriendly countries, including the U.S. dollar, accounted for only 17.2%, representing a success for a nation facing unilateral sanctions from the U.S. government. Russia Pays Imports Mostly … Read more
Metaplanet Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3350 / OTCQX: MTPLF), a publicly listed bitcoin treasury company in Japan, has announced the acquisition of an additional 330 BTC as part of its ongoing Bitcoin Treasury Operations. The latest purchase was made at an average price of 12,181,570 yen per bitcoin, totaling approximately 4.020 billion yen. With this … Read more
Synthetix founder Kain Warwick has threatened SNX stakers with “the stick” if they don’t take up a newly launched staking mechanism to help fix the protocol’s ongoing sUSD (SUSD) depeg. Warwick said in an April 21 post to X that it has now implemented a sUSD staking mechanism to address the depeg, but admitted it … Read more
Crypto exchange Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou says more than two-thirds of the digital assets stolen from the platform in February by North Korea’s Lazarus Group still remain traceable. In an executive summary on hacked Bybit funds posted on X on April 21, Ben Zhou said that of the total $1.4 billion hacked, 68.6% … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says users sending “please” and “thank you” messages to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars. “Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know,” Altman said on April 16 after being asked to estimate the cost on X. Source: Sam Altman Altman’s response sparked discussion … Read more
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a transformative idea to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V as the primary virtual machine language for smart contracts, aiming to enhance the efficiency and scalability of Ethereum’s execution layer. This proposal suggests that while the fundamental concepts of accounts and storage would remain unchanged, transitioning to … Read more
The number of addresses holding more than a thousand Bitcoin has surged in April as whales continue to accumulate. More than 60 new wallets holding over 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) have appeared since early March, a signal of increasing whale activity. The number of these whale wallets has increased from 2,037 in late February to hit … Read more
Ousting the Fed chair could shatter U.S. credibility and rattle global markets, the French finance minister warned, citing spiraling instability threatening dollar dominance and investor confidence. Global Markets at Risk as Trump Eyes Removal of Fed Chair Jerome Powell French Finance Minister Eric Lombard voiced sharp concerns about U.S. economic stability in remarks published Saturday, … Read more
The Solana network briefly surpassed Ethereum in total staked value of their respective native tokens, SOL and ETH, sparking debate over whether it is actually bullish or bearish for Solana. More than $53.9 billion worth of SOL is now staked on the Solana network from 505,938 unique wallet holders, who are making an 8.31% annualized … Read more
Strategy’s explosive bitcoin-backed growth has unleashed massive institutional momentum, drawing 13,000 firms and exposing 55 million beneficiaries to MSTR through ETFs, pensions, and retirement portfolios. Strategy Expands MSTR Exposure Across 13K Institutions and 55M Indirect Holders Software intelligence firm Microstrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), now operating under the name Strategy, made headlines Sunday after its executive chairman … Read more