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Руководитель Федерального казначейства России Роман Артюхин сообщил президенту Владимиру Путину, что ведомство впервые получило на свой счет цифровую валюту центробанка — 1500 рублей поступило в качестве оплаты административного штрафа.

Китайские криптотрейдеры жалуются в соцсетях, что банки КНР стали замораживать их счета за денежные переводы, если в поле с примечанием упомянуты USDT, Dogecoin и другие криптовалюты.

Основатель Cardano Чарльз Хоскинсон (Charles Hoskinson) раскритиковал американский законопроект «О прозрачности рынка цифровых активов» (CLARITY Act), заявив, что документ определяет почти все цифровые активы как ценные бумаги.

The fallout from the XRP Ledger’s BatchGate scare is turning into a broader argument about who is actually responsible for protocol safety and how much scrutiny major amendments should face before they get anywhere near mainnet. In a statement published Monday, longtime validator operator Daniel Keller said the near-miss around XLS-56 exposed “a systemic failure in review processes” and prompted him to withdraw support for all amendments currently under consideration.

Keller’s post was framed as a clarification of what dUNL validators are supposed to do, after what he described as widespread confusion following the Batch incident. His central point was that validators are governance participants, not unpaid auditors. “The role of dUNL validators is specific and limited: We coordinate the activation (or rejection) of amendments by casting ‘Yay’ or ‘Nay’ votes once an amendment is proposed,” he wrote. “We are supposed to judge pending amendments. That is our primary governance function.”

That distinction matters because XLS-56, also known as Batch, was halted only after a logic flaw in signature validation was uncovered shortly before mainnet activation. The bug could have enabled unauthorized transaction execution and potentially put billions in XRP at risk before the amendment was paused and patched in rippled 3.1.1.

XRP Ledger Governance Concerns, With Ripple in Focus

For Keller, the episode was not an isolated mistake but the latest example of a deeper structural problem. “The dUNL is not a free code-review or protocol-auditing body. Expecting validators to spend dozens of unpaid hours reviewing complex amendment code was never part of the design and never will be,” he wrote. “Instead, parties proposing amendments should be required to deliver comprehensive documentation, test suites, security analyses, and formal proofs upon request. If you want my vote, prove the change is safe and beneficial.”

He argued that the burden now falls on Ripple to fund that process more aggressively. “I will not vote in favour of any future amendments until Ripple makes a credible, concrete commitment to substantially increase investment in XRPL core protocol engineering, security review, and long-term sustainability,” Keller said. “If XRP is truly Ripple’s ‘North Star,’ as repeatedly stated, then the network’s foundational security and decentralisation must receive the attention and resources they deserve.”

Keller’s immediate response was blunt: withdraw all current “Yay” votes, except for pending fixes, and refuse to upgrade to rippled 3.1.1 unless staying on the earlier version risks removal from the network. He also said the fact that an independent researcher and an AI tool were ultimately needed to prevent harm underscored how thin the current safety net has become.

Other prominent XRPL voices agreed that the process needs to change, though not all backed a slowdown. Vet, a well-known XRPL validator, called the Batch incident “a massive opportunity” for the community and the XRPL Foundation to rethink how the protocol evolves. He argued for a slower amendment schedule, more paid reviews, multiple audits for larger changes, “attackathons” on testnet, and a bug bounty program big enough to attract elite researchers.

Keller, however, pushed back on the idea that the answer is simply to move slower. “In the short term, we need some sort of agreement with Cantina. They have proven themself and it’s the best we have right now,” he wrote. “Mid-term, the bug bounties need to be elevated and pay serious money. First, people need to be incentivised to look at the code; second, it must pay off to do a responsible disclosure.”

He went further in a follow-up that captured the mood of the debate: “I do not want to slow down our dev speed; it took us years to get to the current level, and we are still slow. More resources need to be allocated, and the process needs to start yesterday.”

That leaves the XRP Ledger in a tense but familiar place: a network trying to add functionality without compromising the credibility of its base layer. BatchGate did not become a live exploit. But it did force a sharper question into the open, whether XRPL’s amendment pipeline is still operating with enough review depth for the scale of change now being proposed.

At press time, XRP traded at $1.3566.

Sanae Token, a Solana based token, has crashed roughly 75% from its peak after Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s denied her involvement with it.

Another Politician Under The Memecoin Fenzy

On a post made through the X social network on March 2, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi clarified that she has no affiliation with the so‑called “Sanae Token” and warned the public against assuming any official endorsement just because a coin uses her name or image: “I have absolutely no knowledge of this token, nor has my office been informed about what this token entails”, she stated, ending the post with the warning that she wants to make sure that the public is not misled, despite the Sanae Token website issuing a disclaimer explicitly stating that it is “not affiliated with or endorsed by Ms. Takaichi”.

SANAE TOKENという仮想通貨が発行され、一定の取引が行われていると伺いました。…

— 高市早苗 (@takaichi_sanae) March 2, 2026

Japanese outlets report that following Sanae’s statement on X, Sanae Token fell more than 50% within four hours, while Wu Blockchain positions the drop to around $6 million.

According to GMGN, the Solana-based meme token SANAE TOKEN briefly reached a market cap of $27.72 million before dropping to around $6 million. The top three addresses hold about 60% of the token supply, and many leading addresses show token inflow activity. Sanae Takaichi stated…

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) March 3, 2026

Not too long ago, another political leader, Argentina’s president Javier Milei, had his own fallout with another Solana based token, after he was accused of being part of a fraudulent scheme following his endorsement of LIBRA.

Sanae Token In The Solana Memecoin Context

Solana Token was announced on Feb 25 by Japanese entrepreneur Yuji Mizoguchi through NoBorder, a Youtube channel that focuses on political content. The project was launched at the peak of Solana’s memecoin frenzy with the objective to be an incentive for NoBorder’s “Japan is Back” project, aiming to “update democracy” with AI and Web3.

Built like many Solana narrative coins, it tried to tap into hype around Japan’s new prime minister and broader “political trade” memes. The name of the project comes from the slogan Takaichi’s inherited from the former PM, Shinzo Abe. NoBorder’s claim that the name “Sanae” is a symbol of a democratically elected leader rather than any formal government backing.

Takeaway For Traders

For traders, this signifies something way bigger than just another funny memecoin scandal. According to data from Bitcoinist and our sister website, on Solana, memecoins routinely swing 70–90% in a matter of hours, and many celebrity or narrative plays bleeding 94–99% from their peaks once the initial hype fades. In a market wired for 10x runs followed by near‑total retracements, the only real edge is treating these positions as short‑term, high‑risk trades: sizing small relative to your stack, planning exits on the way up, and never assuming that a catchy story or a famous name will be there to catch the fall.

Cover image from ChatGPT, SOLUSDT chart from Tradingview

Суд присяжных Лос‑Анджелеса признал 38‑летнего экс-сотрудника местной полиции Эрика Хейлема (Eric Halem) виновным в нападении на 17‑летнего подростка ради флешки с биткоинами на $350 000.

Стейблкоины надо регулировать отдельно от других криптовалют, заявил директор департамента финансовой политики Минфина России Алексей Яковлев. По его словам, в ведомстве считают, что привязанные к национальным валютам токены наиболее близки к средствам платежа.

Управляющий Банка Японии Уэда Кадзуо (Ueda Kazuo) предложил совершать финансовые сделки через блокчейн и использовать для международных расчетов цифровые валюты центральных банков-партнеров. Это должно изменить мировую финансовую систему к лучшему, уверен чиновник.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is urging the crypto industry to take a harder look at H.R. 3633, arguing that the market structure bill could lock future US token projects into securities status rather than provide the regulatory clarity its backers promise. His criticism goes beyond process: Hoskinson says the bill, as written, could protect legacy networks while making it far harder for new crypto projects to launch and grow inside the United States.

Cardano Founder Issues A Stark Warning

In a video published March 2, the Cardano founder framed the dispute partly as a direct response to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s view that a flawed bill is still preferable to no bill. Hoskinson rejected that outright. “A bad bill is not better than no bill,” he said. “You start from a principles-based approach. You don’t make everything a security by default, and you upgrade modernized securities laws so that’s not so bad.”

His core objection is that the Clarity Act would treat newly launched digital assets as securities first, then require them to convince the SEC they qualify to “graduate” into commodity status once their networks are sufficiently decentralized. In Hoskinson’s reading, that framework would have captured XRP, Cardano and Ethereum at launch. The difference, he argued, is that older networks may ultimately be grandfathered in, while future projects would face a regulatory maze from day one.

Hoskinson repeatedly returned to the same question: what, in practice, stops the SEC from keeping a token classified as a security indefinitely? “If it starts as a security, what stops them from keeping it as a security forever?” he asked. “And are we really sure that we can trust that to rulemaking that has yet to happen by people who have yet to be appointed by agencies that spent the last four [expletive] years suing everybody and throwing everybody in prison?”

From there, he laid out a series of what he called “attack vectors” that an adversarial SEC could use in rulemaking. One involved procedural delays around filing completeness, where the agency could keep resetting the clock with deficiency notices. Another focused on the bill’s undefined treatment of “common control,” which he said could let regulators interpret open-source coordination itself as evidence of centralized management.

He also argued that proving decentralization could become impossible if issuers were required to identify beneficial owners across pseudonymous wallet systems or rely on compliance categories the SEC has not even created.

The broad point was that the bill may look workable in statute but become punitive in implementation. “A bad bill enshrines into law every single thing Gary Gensler was trying to do to the industry,” Hoskinson said. “A bad bill through rulemaking allows the SEC to arbitrarily and capriciously kill every new project in the United States. A bad bill exposes all DeFi developers to personal liability.”

He also argued the current political fight in Washington is not really about the bill’s structure at all. According to Hoskinson, the real holdup is stablecoin yield, not developer protections, DeFi coverage or the SEC-CFTC split. In his telling, that leaves the industry in a strange place: a bill marketed as market structure reform, but one that “doesn’t cover the core of what’s going on in the industry right now.”

Hoskinson’s preferred alternative is a principles-based rewrite that modernizes securities law itself, builds blockchain-native disclosure rails, explicitly protects developers and DeFi, and limits how much discretion regulators can exercise in later rulemaking. Otherwise, he warned, the practical result may be simple: established networks survive, while the next generation of US crypto projects builds offshore first and only tries to enter the American market years later.

At press time, Cardano traded at $0.2692.

Одна из крупнейших майнинговых компаний США Core Scientific заявила о предстоящей продаже всех своих 2537 BTC. Причиной компания называет желание вложиться в расширение мощностей для нужд искусственного интеллекта.    

Федеральный суд Манхэттена отклонил коллективный иск против децентрализованной криптобиржи Uniswap по делу о торговле созданными мошенниками токенами. По решению судьи Кэтрин Полк Файлла (Katherine Polk Failla), авторам жалобы запрещено подавать другие аналогичные исковые заявления против этой платформы.

Если военный конфликт между США с союзниками и Ираном продлится еще несколько недель, это может вызвать масштабные распродажи высокорисковых активов, в том числе биткоина, предположили аналитики компании Wintermute.

Правящая партия Турции — Партия справедливости и развития (ПСР) — предложила ввести 10% налог на доходы и прибыль от операций с криптовалютами. Инициатива включена в проект поправок к налоговому законодательству страны.

Отток криптовалют с крупнейшей иранской биржи Nobitex вырос на 700% и достиг $3 млн после атак США и Израиля по территории Ирана. Об этом сообщили аналитики блокчейн-компании Elliptic. Основная часть средств направляется на зарубежные криптообменники и биржи.

Historically, the Ethereum price has been very bullish for the first quarter of the year, with a few exceptions, and the month of March has been no different from the first two months of the year. Therefore, as the market ushers in another month of March, this report takes a look at the performance of Ethereum this month, and if this historical performance can point out where the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap could be headed.

Ethereum Is Ushering In A Bullish Month, But There’s A ‘But’

According to historical data from the CryptoRank website, the month of March has been one of the most bullish in history. Since its inception in 2015, only the months of January and May have surpassed the month of March in terms of average returns.

Looking at the number of years that the month of March has ended in the green, only the months of January and February can match it. Simply put, March has historically been one of the best months for investors who hold ETH. In that case, the probability of this month ending in green is also high.

As the website shows, over the last 10 years, there have been only three years where the month of March has ended in the red for Ethereum. Taking the monthly returns into account, it comes out to an average 23.7% for Ethereum in March.

However, there is a hitch due to the fact that the first three months of the year have often moved in tandem. There have only been a few years of deviation, and given the trend that the year 2026 has begun with, the Ethereum price might be in trouble.

Despite the high average returns, the months of January and February 2026 have both ended in the red. The former saw a 17.7% decline, while the latter has seen a 19.6% crash. If this trend plays out as it has in history, then the likelihood of March ending in the red has just become higher.

While it is too early to tell where the price might end, there has already been a lot of uncertainty. This is because ETH has continued to skirt around the $2,000 level, with no indications that an upward move is imminent. If it follows the months of January and February, then the Ethereum price could be looking at a double-digit crash.

Генеральный директор инвестиционной компании VanEck Ян ван Эк (Jan van Eck) заявил, что цена биткоина находится близко к минимальным значениям текущего цикла и к концу года медвежья фаза может завершиться.

Аналитики американского банковского холдинга JPMorgan заявили, что одним из ключевых факторов роста крипторынка во втором полугодии может стать принятие законопроекта «О прозрачности рынка цифровых активов» (CLARITY).

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Monday that former federal prosecutor David Miller will serve as the agency’s new Director of Enforcement, a key role for crypto regulation. 

Key CFTC Appointment

According to Reuters, Miller previously worked in the securities and commodities fraud task force at the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, where he was known for pursuing complex, high-profile financial cases. 

The appointment comes as newly installed CFTC Chairman Michael Selig reshapes the agency’s leadership. Selig joined the commission in late December and has since begun rebuilding staff ranks. 

The regulator has been significantly thinned during President Donald Trump’s administration, with numerous career officials departing over the past year amid a broader reduction in the federal workforce. Selig currently stands as the sole political appointee on what is traditionally a bipartisan five-member commission.

In a statement, Miller said he is eager to support the chairman’s agenda: 

Under Chairman Selig’s leadership, I look forward to working closely with the talented Commission staff to advance the chairman’s mission of fostering innovation and protecting the integrity of U.S. markets, including from fraud, abuse, and manipulation.

End Of Regulation By Enforcement In Crypto

Before returning to public service, Miller worked in private practice, where he represented clients in several digital asset cases brought by US authorities. 

His recent work included defending a manager at a nonfungible token (NFT) platform who faced wire fraud and money laundering charges, as well as a former Coinbase product manager accused of insider trading. 

Chairman Selig underscored what he described as a shift in philosophy at the enforcement division. In a social media post announcing the appointment, he said: 

I’m delighted to announce David Miller as Director of Enforcement. The era of regulation by enforcement and witch hunts targeting crypto and other transformative industries is over. David will focus the division on policing fraud, manipulation and abuse — not policymaking.

The leadership change has been widely interpreted within the industry as aligning with President Trump’s stated ambition to position the United States as “the crypto capital of the world.” 

In mid-February, the CFTC unveiled another initiative aimed at strengthening ties with the digital asset sector: a newly formed Innovation Advisory Committee composed of 35 members drawn from major exchanges, blockchain companies, and other industry leaders.

The committee is intended to provide the regulator with current, technical insight as it evaluates potential rules covering derivatives, market structure, token classification and related issues. 

Chairman Selig said the advisory group would help ensure that the commission’s decisions reflect real-world market dynamics. He added that the collaboration is designed to help establish clearer regulatory guidelines, which he referred to as part of a broader “Golden Age of American Financial Markets.

Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com 

Компания ProCap Financial, принадлежащая соучредителю Morgan Creek Digital Энтони Помплиано (Anthony Pompliano), объявила о покупке 450 биткоинов на сумму около $35 млн. Сделка состоялась в рамках программы обратного выкупа собственных акций.

Главный инвестиционный директор компании Risk Dimensions Марк Коннорс (Mark Connors) заявил, что недавний рост биткоина связан с эффектом «короткого сжатия» на рынке.