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BlackRock has entered DeFi through Uniswap.

The investment giant launched trading of its tokenized bond fund BUIDL through Uniswap and purchased UNI tokens for an undisclosed amount.

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.

Goldman Sachs reports ownership of cryptocurrency worth $2.3 billion:

- Bitcoin worth $1.1 billion
- Ethereum worth $1 billion
- Ripple worth $153 million
- Solana worth $108 million

Bitcoin is again below $67,000

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CryptoQuant says that the lack of fresh capital strengthens bearish sentiments regarding #bitcoin

Strategy continues to buy bitcoins, despite the fact that the company's crypto balance is already down by $6 billion. Right now they have 714 644 BTC 👀

Hint understood

The EU is going to impose a complete ban on all crypto operations somehow related to Russia.

The following will be banned:

- operations through any Russian services
- transactions with the digital ruble
- banks helping the Russian Federation to circumvent sanctions
- trade operations with Kyrgyzstan, which is suspected by Europeans of re-exporting sanctioned goods.

How many people own crypto by country:
1. India: 93M
2. USA: 46M
3. China: 41M
4. Nigeria: 18M
5. Vietnam: 17M
6. Indonesia: 14M
7. Turkey: 12M
8. Philippines: 10M
9. Brazil: 9M
10. Pakistan: 7M
11. Mexico: 7M
12. Argentina: 7M
13. South Africa: 6M
14. Thailand: 5M
15. Russia: 5M
16. Egypt: 4.5M
17. South Korea: 4.5M
18. Ukraine: 4M
19. Colombia: 4M
20. Spain: 3.5M
21. United Kingdom: 3.5M
22. Iran: 3.5M
23. France: 3M
24. Japan: 3M
25. Germany: 2.8M

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In Russia, a law on the procedure for the arrest and seizure of cryptocurrency has been adopted in the third reading:

- The protocol for the seizure of cryptocurrency must specify: the type of currency, the amount, and the address-identifiers.

- Holders or access to cryptocurrency must be stored in sealed form.

- For the safety of digital currency, it may be transferred to a special address; the procedure for transfer and storage will be determined by the government of the Russian Federation.

- The transfer of seized cryptocurrency to a special address-identifier is allowed if technical feasibility exists.

The State Duma denied the news about the slowdown of Telegram in Russia.

"The issue of blocking Telegram has not been discussed in the State Duma Committee. The Roskomnadzor may begin blocking if there are claims regarding the legislative framework."

💥 Roskomnadzor has been given the green light to impose restrictions on Telegram in Russia starting today.

15 years ago on this day, Bitcoin first reached $1

Binance continues to replenish its SAFU with bitcoins as part of the fund redistribution — bought another 4225 BTC and now owns 10,455 BTC.

This weekend, some genius sent 2.5 BTC to Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet — now there are almost 1.1 million BTC at this address, and anyone who sends bitcoins there is effectively burning their coins, reducing the already limited issuance of 21 million BTC.

CZ skied with the President of Kyrgyzstan this weekend.

The head of state is full of impressions from spending time with the founder of Binance.

Briefly about the current state of the NFT segment: 4 years ago someone bought this JPEG file for $69 million, now it costs $19,000 (but no one is buying).

Russian Sber announced that it wants to issue loans secured by crypto.

1. You take a loan from Sber secured by your crypto.
2. Your crypto is rapidly falling down.
3. Let Sber take this collateral for themselves.

A method for insurance interim fixation of the crypto portfolio has been found 🫣