The Bank of Russia has prepared a concept for regulating crypto in Russia.
– Cryptocurrency and stablecoins will be allowed to be bought and sold, their status will be monetary values.
– Crypto cannot be used for payments.
– Everyone will have to take responsibility for the risks when interacting with crypto.
– Responsibility for illegal activities of intermediaries in the crypto market will be introduced, similar to the responsibility for illegal banking activities.
– It will be allowed to deal with crypto for both qualified and unqualified investors, but under different conditions. For unqualified investors, the limit will be up to 300,000 rubles per year after passing a test, and only the largest cryptocurrencies by capitalization. Qualified investors will be able to buy all coins except anonymous ones, in any volume.
Draft amendments to legislation have already been sent to the Government. Everything is expected to start working by July 1, 2026.
Analysts claim that the era of global alt seasons is over — we can no longer expect explosive growth from all altcoins at once. The crypto market has matured, and now liquidity has become very selective, allowing for significant returns only for tokens of projects with real applications and value.
Can we postpone the maturation of the crypto market and have one more little alt season, please? We all understand.
IMF: We forced El Salvador to end their experiment with bitcoin, they no longer buy BTC, their Chivo wallet is being phased out, and the increase in reserves is simply due to internal transfers.
El Salvador: We continue to buy one bitcoin a day despite the IMF's demands, we already have over 7500 BTC on our balance.
This month, Bitcoin holders conducted one of the largest coin distributions in the last five years.
So far, according to estimates from CryptoQuant, this volume has been absorbed due to demand from Bitcoin ETFs and investment funds. Currently, this is not the case, so the additional supply is putting pressure on the market 👀
According to analysts at Kaiko, Binance processed a spot volume of $20 billion and 61.9 million trades in a single day on December 1, 2025, which significantly exceeds the figures of other major CEXs. For comparison, the top-2 global exchange Coinbase conducted 6.2 million trades totaling $3.6 billion.
Right now, Binance maintains a share of approximately 60% of the centralized spot trading volume — this level remains stable during any periods (both in bull markets and bear markets).
As a result, Kaiko states that Binance, during its progress from 2017 to the present day, has de facto become a cornerstone of the global crypto world...