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Аналитик ончейн-платформы CryptoQuant заявил, что биткоину может грозить период «великой скуки». По его мнению, первая криптовалюта способна надолго застрять в диапазоне $60 000–80 000 из-за слабого притока нового капитала на рынок.

The Trump family’s decentralized finance (DeFi) venture, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), unveiled on Friday a new investment opportunity for participants and supporters of the platform. 

As earlier reported by Reuters, investors who commit to locking $5 million worth of their tokens for six months will gain “guaranteed direct access” to certain members of the WLFI team in exchange for voting rights.

World Liberty Financial Introduces ‘Super Nodes’

This new initiative includes family members of President Trump among the “Supporting Team” listed in World Liberty’s documentation. Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Barron Trump are all mentioned, though the company has clarified that they will not be part of the direct access arrangement.

Voting on this proposal closed on Thursday, with the company claiming that 99% of the 1,786 votes cast were in favor of the new arrangement. 

The introduction of a tiered structure for token holders, referred to as “Super Nodes,” represents a shift from the company’s earlier commitment to democratizing access to financial resources. 

David Wachsman, the company’s spokesman, clarified that while Super Nodes will have access to the WLFI team, it does not guarantee a partnership. Instead, it suggests that significant participation in governance will be encouraged. 

According to World Liberty’s website, this initiative aims to incentivize token holders to engage more actively in the governance of the crypto firm, which generated over $460 million for the Trump family in the first half of 2025.

Exclusive Dinner For TRUMP Memecoin Holders

To become a Super Node, investors must stake 50 million WLFI tokens. By staking their tokens for six months, holders will not only gain voting rights on governance matters but also earn a yield of 2% in WLFI tokens for participating in at least two votes.

Previously, all WLFI token holders enjoyed the ability to vote on alterations to the company’s underlying code, with each token representing one vote. They could also express their opinions on the venture’s strategic directions, as outlined in World Liberty’s Gold Paper. 

However, with the passage of this new proposal, voting rights will now be restricted to those who have staked their tokens for the designated period, further limiting access to crucial governance processes.

In a related development, Bitcoinist reported that President Trump is preparing to host the second exclusive dinner for holders of his official memecoin, TRUMP, scheduled for April 25 at Mar-a-Lago. 

At the time of writing, World Liberty Financial’s native token, WLFI, is trading at $0.1079. This represents gains of almost 6% over the last 24 hours, as the wider cryptocurrency market has experienced a significant recovery ahead of the end of the week. 

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Российские силовики и энергетики выявили две нелегальные майнинговые фермы в деревне Черелисино Ярославской области. Об этом сообщили представители филиала «Россети Центр» — «Ярэнерго».

Американский миллиардер и инвестор, основатель фонда Duquesne Capital Стэнли Дракенмиллер (Stan Druckenmiller) заявил, что глобальные платежные системы могут перейти на стейблкоины в течение ближайших 10–15 лет.

Бывший премьер-министр Великобритании Борис Джонсон (Boris Johnson) назвал биткоин «гигантской финансовой пирамидой», заявив, что стоимость криптовалют во многом зависит от доверия инвесторов, а не от их внутренней ценности.

Crypto moved to the center of Washington’s latest North Korea sanctions action on March 12, after the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated six individuals and two entities tied to DPRK-run IT worker schemes. For the digital asset industry, the significance was not only the sanctions themselves, but how explicitly the case framed cryptocurrency as infrastructure for moving illicit revenue across borders.

OFAC Targets North Korean Crypto Network

According to Treasury, the targeted schemes systematically defrauded US businesses and generated nearly $800 million in 2024 for North Korea’s weapons programs. Secretary Scott Bessent described a model in which overseas operatives used fake identities and corporate deception to infiltrate legitimate companies, then turned sensitive access into a second layer of leverage. “Targets American companies through deceptive schemes.” “Treasury will continue to follow the money.”

That framing matters because the case was not presented as a conventional cybercrime story alone. Treasury and Chainalysis both pointed to a blended playbook: fraudulent hiring, wage extraction, financial facilitators, and crypto rails used to convert and move proceeds. Chainalysis called the operations “a sophisticated and growing threat.” It added, in equally direct terms, that “cryptocurrency plays a central role” in moving those funds back to North Korea while evading sanctions.

The clearest crypto-specific detail in the action concerned Nguyen Quang Viet, CEO of Vietnam-based Quangvietdnbg International Services Company Limited. Treasury said Nguyen converted about $2.5 million into cryptocurrency for North Koreans between mid-2023 and mid-2025, including illicit earnings tied to Amnokgang Technology Development Company, a DPRK IT company that manages overseas worker delegations. Treasury also said OFAC’s designations in this case reached facilitators in the DPRK, Vietnam, Laos and Spain, underscoring how geographically dispersed these support networks have become.

Chainalysis said the March 12 action included 21 designated addresses across multiple blockchains. Those addresses spanned Ethereum, Tron and Bitcoin, with seven linked to Amnokgang, two Ethereum addresses tied to Yun Song Guk, one Bitcoin address tied to Hoang Minh Quang, and 11 newly added addresses for previously designated Sim Hyon Sop, a representative of Korea Kwangson Banking Corp.

Treasury’s narrative also showed how the IT-worker pipeline extends beyond software contracting into broader financial enablement. It said Yun had led a group of North Korean freelance IT workers operating out of Boten, Laos since at least 2023 and coordinated several dozen transactions totaling more than $70,000 with Hoang Minh Quang tied to IT services. In a separate strand, Treasury said Do Phi Khanh and Hoang Van Nguyen supported Kim Se Un, including through bank-account access and crypto transactions, while Hoang had also helped procure foreign currency for the regime.

The action lands against a broader backdrop in which North Korea’s crypto footprint has been getting bigger, not smaller. Chainalysis said in its 2026 crypto crime report that North Korea stole more than $2 billion in 2025, its most successful year on record, while value received by sanctioned entities overall surged 694% last year. In that context, the OFAC designations look less like an isolated enforcement step and more like another attempt to squeeze every layer of the DPRK crypto stack, from stolen funds and laundering routes to the labor schemes that generate fresh inflows.

At press time, the total crypto market cap stood at $2.44 trillion.

Рост цен на нефть на фоне конфликта вокруг Ирана вряд ли повысит расходы биткоин-майнеров на электроэнергию. Главный риск для отрасли — усиление волатильности биткоина и снижение доходности добычи криптовалюты, считают аналитики компании Luxor Technology.

Hong Kong is expected to grant the first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses within two weeks, reportedly choosing HSBC and Standard Chartered as the first companies to obtain the long-awaited approval.

HSBC, Standard Chartered Lead Hong Kong’s Stablecoin Race

On Friday, Bloomberg reported that HSBC, Hong Kong’s largest bank by assets, and a joint venture led by Standard Chartered are set to be among the first companies to receive the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) stablecoin licenses this month.

Authorities are reportedly prioritizing institutions already authorized to issue banknotes and will approve the two banks in the first batch, according to people familiar with the matter. Notably, the HKMA favors bank-led stablecoin issuers due to their robust capital base and ability to ensure greater safety while facilitating wider adoption, the sources affirmed.

Last month, the financial authority’s Chief Executive, Eddie Yue, announced it would grant the first, limited batch of stablecoin provider licenses in March as the review of 36 applications was nearly completed.

The HKMA enacted the Stablecoins Ordinance last August, which directs any individual or entity seeking to issue any fiat-referenced stablecoin (FRS) in Hong Kong, or any Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)-denominated token, to obtain a license from the financial regulator.

The number of licenses and the timetable had not yet been finalized and were subject to change. However, sources suggested March 24 as a possible date, as revealed by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), which first broke the news.

Industry sources suggested that Hong Kong’s licensing regime will initially prioritize the local currency. Standard Chartered has already announced plans to issue a Hong Kong dollar-pegged token.

The London-based bank, alongside Animoca Brands and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), formed a joint venture last year to apply for a license to issue a HKD-denominated stablecoin.

Since 2024, the trio has been part of the financial authority’s stablecoin issuer sandbox program, which enabled limited-scale tests of these tokens across various scenarios, including e-commerce payments, cross-border trade settlements, and tokenized asset trading.

RD Technologies, a Hong Kong-based fintech firm founded by former HKMA CEO Norman Chan Tak-lam, and JD Coinlink, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, also started testing HKD-pegged tokens under the regulator’s sandbox program last year.

Meanwhile, HSBC’s potential approval has reportedly surprised the industry, given the bank’s absence from the HKMA-led sandbox. HSBC has focused on tokenization projects, including tokenized deposits.

However, the bank had reportedly been actively engaged with local and global players in the digital-asset space and is committed to playing a central role in Hong Kong’s evolving financial ecosystem.

A ‘Testing Ground’ For Mainland Financial Innovation

Hong Kong’s expected approvals come amid China’s recent decision to explicitly prohibit onshore tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), intensify scrutiny of related offshore activities, and prohibit the issuance of yuan-pegged offshore stablecoins without authorization.

Last month, Chinese authorities reaffirmed their long‑standing ban on virtual assets, saying that domestic companies and overseas entities under their control are prohibited from issuing virtual currencies abroad without official approval.

As reported by Bitcoinist, legal experts have suggested that Hong Kong’s ambitions to establish itself as a leading regulated hub for stablecoins were at risk of being hindered by the People’s Bank of China’s explicit crackdown on the sector.

Nonetheless, experts also believe Hong Kong could serve as a testing ground for financial innovations, given competition with the US and favorable conditions for the internationalization of the yuan, the SCMP noted.

“Hong Kong is a testing field for Chinese assets and money to go abroad on the blockchain,” Raymond Chan, chairman of the Greater Bay Area FinTech League, told the news outlet. “We are the firewall defending against challenges that may disrupt the market in China, thanks to our full set of regulations.”

Война США и Израиля на Ближнем Востоке не закончилась, а свежая американская статистика не оказалась сенсационно плохой. Без новой шокирующей информации криптоинвесторы вздохнули с облегчением, а цифровые активы немного выросли в цене.

На фоне роста числа нападений на владельцев криптовалют сооснователь Эфириума Виталик Бутерин предложил «настраивать секретные слова». По задумке создателя второй по капитализации криптовалюты, если произнести такие слова рядом с умными часами, телефоном или домашним гаджетом, система автоматически вызовет экстренные службы.

Минюст США и Европол ликвидировали работавшую более десяти лет хакерскую сеть SocksEscort и заморозили связанные с сетью $3,5 млн в криптовалюте.

Команда криптопроекта Shiba Inu изъяла из обращения 6 878 412 монет SHIB. Активность сжигания криптоактива увеличилась на 44,45%, показали данные платформы Shibburn, отслеживающей транзакции по сокращению эмиссии мемкоина.

Автор книги «Богатый папа, бедный папа» Роберт Кийосаки (Robert Kiyosaki) порекомендовал своим подписчикам активы, которые, по его мнению, лучше покупать на фоне массового вывода капитала из американских частных кредитных фондов.

Как минимум 30 корпоративных инвесторов сейчас держат позиции в паях биржевых фондов, обеспеченных криптовалютой XRP компании Ripple. Совокупный объем вложений этих инвесторов в XRP-ETF составляет более $210 млн, показывают данные Bloomberg Intelligence.

Глава отдела исследований цифровых активов банка Standard Chartered Джеффри Кендрик (Geoffrey Kendrick) предположил, что новый мощный бычий цикл на крипторынке начнется не ранее 2027 года.

Объем сделок в спотовом биржевом фонде на эфир iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) крупнейшей по объему активов управляющей компании BlackRock превысил $15,5 млн в первый день торгов. Активы фонда на момент запуска составили более $100 млн.

После обновления Fusaka в сети Эфириума число атак типа address poisoning («отравление адресов») резко выросло. По данным аналитиков Etherscan, за последние три месяца количество «криптопылевых» переводов в USDT увеличилось на 612%.

Неизвестный криптотрейдер потерял почти $50 млн при попытке обменять токены aEthUSDT на aEthAAVE. Сделка на $50 432 688 проходила через агрегатор CoW Protocol: пользователь пытался обменять процентный токен aEthUSDT — версию стейблкоина USDT от Tether — на aEthAAVE, аналогичную версию токена управления Aave.

В Ставропольском крае 52-летняя женщина и ее 45-летний сожитель организовали в гараже майнинговую ферму для добычи криптовалюты. Об этом сообщили в пресс-службе краевого ГУ МВД России.

Мемкоин TRUMP, запущенный президентом США Дональдом Трампом (Donald Trump), за сутки вырос на 18% — до $3,7 — после объявления о проведении эксклюзивного мероприятия для крупнейших держателей токена. Победители смогут посетить обед с президентом в резиденции Мар-а-Лаго во Флориде.