Tag: Stablecoin
Russia built a $100 billion shadow dollar system in 10 months — and Putin cut the ribbon
A ruble-backed stablecoin co-owned by a sanctioned Russian state defense bank and a convicted Moldovan oligarch processed more than $100 billion in transactions in under 12 months, according to a report by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. On April 23, the European Council adopted its 20th sanctions package against Russia, imposing a complete ban on cryptocurrency…
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Trump’s WLFI crashes to all-time low after $150M borrow on adviser’s own DeFi platform
World Liberty Financial’s token hit rock bottom on Friday — and the on-chain trail behind the collapse reads like a conflict-of-interest case study. WLFI, the governance token of Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, crashed to an all-time low of $0.077 on April 11. That’s a 76% decline from its September 2025 peak of $0.33 – and…
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Congress Just Voted to Regulate a $26B Market Most Crypto Traders Don’t Know Exists
There’s a $26.48 billion market growing on-chain right now that gets almost zero attention on crypto Twitter. No memes. No price predictions. No Elon tweets. Just quiet, steady capital flowing into tokenized treasuries, real estate, and private credit – and it grew 5.25% last month while Bitcoin was busy crashing on Iran headlines. Yesterday, the…
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