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Lunch today featured red wine, steak, and durian. So happy!

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The BofA stablecoin news triggered mixed reactions from the community, with many seeing the news as a good sign for crypto adoption, while others viewed bank-issued stablecoins as a new version of central bank digital currencies (CBDC).

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Most cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin and Ether may not experience a widespread “altcoin season” rally in 2025, but projects with strong fundamentals and revenue-generating models could outperform the broader market, according to Ki Young Ju, the founder and CEO of CryptoQuant.

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Bitcoin’s price has fallen by over 7% in the six days since the ETFs began their six-day selling spree on Feb. 18.

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Crypto analyst Artchick.eth noted that over the next three months, more than 15 million SOL — worth roughly $2.5 billion — will enter circulation. Many of these tokens were purchased at $64 per SOL in FTX’s auctions by firms such as Galaxy Digital, Pantera Capital and Figure:

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Vinnik pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy charges in May 2024, in which he had illegally moved funds through crypto exchange BTC-e.

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On Feb. 12, the US exchanged Alexander Vinnik, the former operator of the crypto exchange BTC-e, for American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who was in Russian custody.

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The further aggressive economic policies from the White House briefly sent the price of Bitcoin tumbling. Market observers are expecting further volatility, as Trump has floated the idea of tariffs on the European Union, superconductors, oil, gas, steel and copper.

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On Feb. 9, Trump announced a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum coming into the United States and said that he would launch reciprocal tariffs on countries that had their own levies on US goods.

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Behnam has called on lawmakers to make clear guidelines for cryptocurrencies, saying, “The crypto era has highlighted the need for our ruleset to address the derivatives industry’s current course.”

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On Feb. 7, former CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam announced his last day at the agency after eight years of serving the CFTC as a commissioner and the regulator’s chair. Behnam said he would step down a month earlier, making way for a new acting chair to take his place until another is appointed.

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With platforms like Tradable tokenizing $1.7 billion in private credit on ZKsync, the demand for institutional-grade assets and liquidity access is growing.

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Tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) has emerged as a transformative trend in traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) as institutional entities increasingly adopt crypto-driven solutions.

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Some centralized crypto exchanges have run afoul of those laws and suffered significant penalties. In November 2023, the US government fined Binance $4.3 billion for failure to comply with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. Binance allegedly failed to report suspicious transactions, later proven to be associated with a variety of terrorist organizations.

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The report notes that extremist groups face challenges — legal and financial. For instance, anti-terrorism financing laws and regulations from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the United States and similar government entities around the world stipulate that cryptocurrency exchanges must prohibit, flag and halt crypto activity linked to terrorism.

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While crypto donations to extremist groups in Europe are rising, North America still leads all regions with a total of $20 million donated to these groups. Europe comes in second with $1.9 million, Oceania in third with $319,000, and donations from undisclosed regions amounting to $162,000.

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Highly polarizing events, such as national elections, have created a vortex that draws in more donations, often resulting in a flood of money to extremist groups that espouse radical ideologies.

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Not only are crypto donations to extremist groups in Europe increasing, but the size of those donations and donor intensity are rising as well. From 2023 to 2024, at least five types of extremist groups experienced an increase in size of deposits year-over-year: white nationalist (270%), nationalist (164%), conspiracy (70%), anarchist (35%) and antisemitic (22%), notes the report.

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The report, shared with Cointelegraph, shows most crypto donations to extremist groups came from North America prior to 2017. Since then, Europe has been steadily capturing inflows. Between 2022 and 2024, for instance, Europe accounted for nearly 50% of extremist group onchain activity.

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Cryptocurrency donations to extremist groups have dipped globally but are rising in Europe, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis.

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