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Russia now has 270,000 accounts in digital rubles, less than two months after the national launch of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Elvira Nabiullina revealed this figure on October 23, specifying that demand exceeded expectations. Moscow is already preparing new services, including recurring payments from November and offline transactions in 2027. However, the number of actually active users remains unknown.

Claude just solved in less than 30 minutes a cryptographic puzzle that had been lingering for about 25 years. Anthropic's AI model found the origin of five numbers provided by the NSA for certain elliptic curves standardized by NIST in 2000. Long suspected of possibly hiding a backdoor, they ultimately came from an old pseudo-random generator fed by timestamps from 1997 and 1998.

Using Ethereum is much cheaper than in the spring. The average cost of an ETH transfer fell to around 0.095 dollars, compared to a peak of 0.72 dollars on April 21, according to Santiment data. The drop therefore exceeds 85%. It comes as demand on the mainnet has calmed, but also after several months of technical improvements. Fusaka, blobs, and Layer 2 have given more capacity to the crypto network.

The CLARITY Act fails in the Senate 49-50, far from the 60 votes required. Despite 126 concessions, US crypto regulation remains blocked, between possible revival and total reset in 2027.

BitMine strengthens its Ethereum reserve with 27,180 ETH. Does this new crypto purchase change the game for ETH? Complete analysis.

Wealth managers are preparing to increase their crypto exposure as ETPs gradually make digital assets easier to access through traditional investment channels.

Bitwise will close BWOW, its Dogecoin ETF launched at the end of November 2025. The fund held only about 688,000 dollars in net assets as of September 9, according to data cited by Cointelegraph. Its last session on the NYSE Arca is scheduled for October 14, then the remaining investors will be reimbursed in cash around October 22. Less than eleven months were therefore enough to end this crypto experiment.

Iran loosens part of its currency controls and allows more room for crypto in its international exchanges. According to the Financial Times, exporters can now use their foreign revenues to directly finance imports and resort to Bitcoin or USDT for certain cross-border settlements. Nearly 9.9 billion dollars of crypto activity had already been attributed to Iran in 2025. The Iranian Central Bank has not publicly commented on these new rules.

Hacking, phishing, or just a bug? X investigates an unprecedented wave targeting the platform's most followed crypto accounts. The details.

Trump reportedly earned $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, while Public Citizen estimates investor losses at $4.7 billion. Analysis.

Despite Trump’s decree on alternative assets, 77% of Americans consider crypto too risky for their retirement savings. Analysis.

Pi Network migrated to protocol v26, but the Pi crypto price falls below $0.09. Discover full analysis here!

Hyperliquid faces a more demanding phase of its development. JPMorgan believes the decentralized platform could lose ground to regulated US offerings. At the same time, capital inflows into HYPE-related ETFs have significantly slowed down after their spectacular start.

Ki Young Ju asks bitcoin holders to hold on for a few more months. The founder of CryptoQuant believes that bullish signals could ease the market, even if the cycle remains fragile. For him, the expected rebound looks more like a breath in a bear market than an immediate return of the bull run.

With a new purchase of $74M, BitMine strengthens its Ethereum treasury. Comprehensive analysis of a major institutional strategy.

France is strengthening its security system after 77 cases of kidnapping, sequestration, extortion, or attempts related to the crypto sector since the beginning of 2026. In response to this rapid increase, authorities want to accelerate alerts, better identify the masterminds, and protect professionals as well as their relatives.

MetaMask transforms its crypto wallet into a financial account usable on a daily basis. Its new Money Account allows generating up to 4% variable annual yield on stablecoins, and then spending the balance directly with the MetaMask card. The service operates on auto-custody on Monad, with no lock-up period.

Crypto mining: American Bitcoin executes a 1-for-15 reverse split to increase its price and save its Nasdaq listing. Details and stakes.

Malta wants to regulate DAOs and certain decentralized finance protocols in the MiCA era. The regulator mainly seeks to distinguish genuine decentralized crypto projects from organizations that retain human control behind their smart contracts.

This is no longer science fiction! MetaMask has just given full control of DeFi to autonomous AI agents. Crypto trading is about to shift into a 100% algorithmic era.

For the first time since April 2025, #Ethereum has just broken the critical support of $1,600. Should we fear a one-way ticket to the abyss or are we about to experience the best entry point of the year? We analyze the situation.

A Wall Street executive has just publicly acknowledged what the crypto industry has been repeating for years: blockchain directly threatens the revenues of financial intermediaries. Franklin Templeton reveals the numbers.

Bitwise claims that Hyperliquid's HYPE token could be one of the most undervalued crypto assets on the market despite a 77% increase this year. A statement that reignites the debate on the next stars of the crypto cycle.

Cardano finds a signal that the market always watches closely: the return of very large buyers. This movement is not yet enough to trigger a surge in the ADA crypto, but it changes the tone around the project.

Warren Buffett just bought $17 billion in Treasury bills. What this historic signal means for bitcoin price.

Crypto news: In the United Kingdom, 65% of under 25s recognize bitcoin as primarily a savings product. All the details here!

The crypto market reacts to the Fed's decision. Between hope for a rally and extreme fear, signals worry investors.

The campaign is easy to understand and worrying in its mechanics: developers linked to OpenClaw were targeted on GitHub with the promise of $5,000 in $CLAW tokens, before being redirected to a fake site designed to make them connect and then drain their crypto wallets. OX Security documented the operation, and the OpenClaw project itself eventually publicly reported the scam.