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The Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, is a bitcoin maximalist; the asset's share in his portfolio is about 80%. He stated this in an interview with CoinDesk. As the outlet noted, Pliego's fortune is estimated at $5 billion. He is among the ten richest people in Mexico.

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has launched a consultation on the regulation of DeFi projects. The regulator proposed assessing decentralization not as a binary feature but as a spectrum: protocols with centralized elements such as administrative keys, concentration of governance, upgrade rights, and

G7 leaders, heads of major AI companies and representatives of the tech industry discussed the risks of overreliance on American artificial intelligence models during a summit in Evian-les-Bains, France. FT reports this. During the G7 summit, French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept its benchmark interest rate in the range of 3.5% to 3.75%. This triggered a sell-off of cryptocurrencies: immediately after the US central bank's announcement, Bitcoin fell by almost 1.2%. Major altcoins dropped 2-3%. Over the past day, Bitcoin lost 2.3% of its value, falling to

On June 18, a hacker breached an unused smart contract on the Aztec L2 network. According to a preliminary estimate, the amount of damage is about $2.15 million. We are investigating a potential exploit affecting a deprecated Aztec payments product from 2021. ~$2m was transferred from the immutable smart contract in

The government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 533 bitcoins worth about $34.5 million to the Binance crypto exchange. The operations were recorded by analysts of the Arkham Intelligence platform. The transfers came from a wallet linked to the state investment company Druk Holding & Investments. The largest

Despite the fact that the bitcoin (BTC) rate holds above $64,200, seller pressure on the market is not easing. As CryptoQuant analyst Arab Chain notes, the cumulative volume delta (CVD) indicator on the Binance exchange remains deep in the negative zone — about −899,000 BTC, which reflects a clear predominance of sell

The banking giant HSBC has entered into a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to integrate artificial intelligence into its global operations. The parties will focus on using Gemini models from Google DeepMind. As part of the cooperation, the bank plans to launch more than 200 AI use cases over two years.

The investment company VanEck published an analysis of the transformation of bitcoin miners into infrastructure providers for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC). The analysts concluded that the market increasingly values mining companies not as a cryptocurrency business but as operators of

Enegix Global, a company specializing in infrastructure for digital energy and mining, announced the launch of Omanhash.om — the official national pool for cryptocurrency mining in Oman. The project was implemented with the support of the country's Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology