A bunch of top crypto figures have become members of the advisory committee on innovation in the USA.
For example, the head of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, the head of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as representatives from Uniswap, Kraken, Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood, and a16z crypto.
CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong is no longer in the top 500 richest people in the world.
His fortune has decreased by $10 billion from a peak of $17.7 billion recorded six months ago.
At the same time, Coinbase purchased bitcoins for $39,000,000 in the fourth quarter of 2025, while the company's quarterly loss amounted to $667 million.
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The authorities of the Russian Federation will conduct voting on the launch of their own Russian stablecoin.
The Bank of Russia has estimated that the daily turnover of cryptocurrency in Russia amounts to ~50 billion rubles, which is over 10 trillion a year.
The authorities also stated that the Central Bank and the government expect to adopt laws regulating cryptocurrency during the spring session of the State Duma.
At the same time, the Moscow Exchange declares that it is ready to start servicing cryptocurrency trading as soon as it is permitted. It says that it wants to eliminate the gray part of the crypto market in the country and take this pie for itself.
Binance completed the conversion of its SAFU from stablecoins to bitcoins — the exchange's fund currently holds exactly one billion dollars in BTC.
If the capitalization of SAFU falls below $800 million in the event of a cryptocurrency market downturn, the balance will be restored to $1 billion by purchasing new bitcoins.
In September of last year, Binance and Franklin Templeton announced a strategic partnership to develop products with digital assets to bridge TradFi and blockchain.
Now they have launched a new institutional collateral program, under which clients will be able to use tokenized shares of Franklin Templeton as over-the-counter collateral for trading on Binance.
Thus, cryptocurrency continues to evolve, going through cyclical phases, while local downturns on the global path do not have decisive significance.
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