🇮🇷 Wallets worth 344,000,000 USDT frozen yesterday by Tether belonged to Iran.

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🇪🇺 The ECB has chosen payment standards for the digital euro and will build the infrastructure on existing open technologies ECPC, nexo standards and Berlin Group.

The idea is to reduce implementation costs for banks and businesses, accelerate the launch of CBDC, and reduce Europe's dependence on Visa, Mastercard, and global digital wallets.

The first issue of the digital euro is still tentatively expected in 2029.

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🔫 Trump was shot at again — at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton, a man with several weapons attempted to breach a security checkpoint, gunfire ensued, one agent was hit in the bulletproof vest, and Trump, Melania, and Vance were urgently evacuated.

The suspect was apprehended, the motive has not yet been disclosed, but the story has already become a political shock — especially given that this is the very hotel where Reagan was shot in 1981.

Crypto also quickly entered the narrative: a version spread on social media that the suspect had MetaMask with TRUMP and MELANIA, but there is no official confirmation of this yet.

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⚖️ In the US, 22-year-old Evan Tangeman was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a crypto fraud scheme worth $263,000,000.

The stolen money was laundered through a complex network and spent on a luxurious life — expensive mansions, Lamborghinis, Rolexes, and other attributes of "successful success".

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🔐 How long does it take to crack a password? Everything is decided by length and variety of characters: 8 characters consisting of letters, numbers, and symbols can be brute-forced in about 5 months, while 12 characters with the same set — already up to 10 million years.

A normal long password with numbers, letters, and symbols is practically impossible to guess by brute force, while short and simple combinations, such as qwerty123, are cracked almost instantly.

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👻 Fear and Greed Index has left the fear zone for the first time since January, rising to 47 — the market is gradually thawing.

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💳 Western Union is preparing to launch its own stablecoin USDPT on the Solana blockchain as early as May — as an alternative to SWIFT transfers.

In parallel, the company is building a digital asset network to integrate crypto wallets with its global network and will later release the USD Stable Card, strengthening its entry into crypto payments.

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🇫🇷 In France charged 88 people, including teenagers, in cases of "wrench attacks" — violent attacks for access to crypto wallets.

The investigation showed that organized groups are behind a series of 12 cases, involved in multiple attacks.

The number of such crimes is growing rapidly (67 cases in 2025 and dozens already in 2026), so authorities warn — displaying crypto assets on social media increasingly makes people targets.

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🚓 Ukrainian security forces shut down a conversion center with a turnover of up to UAH 18 billion ($430 million) — money was converted into cash and crypto through fictitious VAT to complicate tracking.

The scheme involved about 500 entities: fictitious companies, individual entrepreneurs (FOPs), and non-residents from the EU and UAE.

After 40+ searches, documents, equipment, seals, cash, and cars were seized; four participants have already been detained.

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