Russia toughens its tone against crypto market players operating outside any legal framework. Moscow has just submitted a bill to parliament that provides for heavy criminal penalties for any unauthorized cryptocurrency service. A regulatory crackdown that is part of a broader strategy to take back control of a sector that is currently out of the state’s control.
XRP-backed ETFs have just recorded their strongest weekly inflow since mid-January. In a few days, flows accelerated significantly, accompanied by a price rebound. This return of institutional capital puts XRP back under scrutiny. It remains to be seen whether this movement reflects a simple temporary resurgence of interest or the start of a lasting dynamic.
An Iranian announcement was enough to move two markets at once. On one side, oil fell sharply. On the other, bitcoin gained altitude, passing above 76,000 dollars with an intraday peak around 78,000 dollars on Friday.
Prediction markets sell a simple promise. Bet on the future, read the crowd, win thanks to better intuition than others. But the latest data on Polymarket tells a much less flattering story, at the very moment Kalshi and the entire sector are attracting more political and institutional attention.
The great powers reveal themselves in crises, and BRICS may have just missed their moment. While the war involving Iran could have marked a turning point, the bloc remained silent, unable to display a common position. This silence raises questions about its real credibility in face of its global ambitions. Behind the image of a counter-power to the West, this sequence mainly exposes deep divisions and structural weaknesses that rhetoric is no longer enough to mask.
As digital uses evolve, a question arises at Paris Blockchain Week 2026: how to simplify value exchanges in a world where banking systems and blockchain infrastructures coexist? OZAPAY provides a concrete answer with a hybrid super app that aims to streamline payments, regardless of the system used. Between traditional finance and crypto, users still face unnecessary complexity: multiplicity of tools, fragmented experiences, dependence on intermediaries. This is precisely the area the Parisian fintech has chosen to invest in.
Brussels unveils its gadget to protect children, then an expert almost whistles it apart. Durov smirks, tech coughs, and Europe still swears it is watching.
Bitcoin under pressure: the most vulnerable miners are massively liquidating their reserves. A worrying dynamic for the crypto market.
Anthropic accelerates its strategy with the imminent launch of Claude Opus 4.7, a model accompanied by a tool capable of generating complete digital products from simple instructions. This advance marks a clear repositioning towards automated production platforms. In parallel, the existence of a more advanced internal model with sensitive capabilities raises questions about the uses and limits of these systems.
