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Russia’s largest bank, Sber, is preparing to expand its crypto-backed lending to accept Tether’s USDT stablecoin and Ether as collateral alongside Bitcoin — even as the bank questions whether Russia’s own digital ruble has attracted meaningful demand.

Strive, the publicly traded asset manager pursuing an aggressive Bitcoin treasury strategy, has purchased another 1,800 Bitcoin for approximately $143 million, pushing its holdings to 23,156 BTC and vaulting the company into the top five publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holders.

American AI companies are blocking verified Bitcoin security researchers from using frontier cybersecurity models — so the volunteers trying to protect critical Bitcoin infrastructure are turning to Chinese open-source AI instead. The Bitcoin Policy Institute just made it a formal policy demand.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich has moved to shut down speculation that the Japanese Bitcoin treasury company is selling its holdings after a $322 million transfer triggered alarm among crypto market watchers.

Pokémon cards gained 22.8% over three months, beating the S&P 500’s 4.7% rise while Bitcoin fell 20.7%. Strong retail demand and record card sales have pushed the Pokémon market into the multibillion-dollar alternative asset space.

Two men have been sentenced in France after taking part in a series of break-ins targeting a rural property that criminals allegedly believed was still home to crypto millionaires

China’s central bank has made its biggest monthly gold purchase in nearly three years, extending its record accumulation streak as Beijing continues to strengthen its reserves amid growing geopolitical and monetary uncertainty.

Russia is moving to bring some of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies into its regulated financial system, with the central bank proposing Bitcoin, Ether and Tether’s USDT as the first digital assets eligible for trading on official exchanges.

Trump Media & Technology Group is backing away from a major crypto expansion, abandoning plans for a multibillion-dollar CRO treasury and scaling back its ambitions for prediction markets on Truth Social as new leadership refocuses the company on media, data licensing and its planned merger with fusion-energy company TAE.

A Bitcoin security researcher says restrictions on OpenAI’s advanced cybersecurity tools have forced him to turn back to Chinese open-source AI models to continue searching for vulnerabilities in Bitcoin infrastructure.