Daily Summary, 6 October

  • 7 Oct, 2025
    | Salome K

🚀 Main Events
* Bitcoin updated its all-time high (ATH), exceeding the $125,800 mark.
* BNB continued to grow, reaching a level above $1,200.

📜 Regulation and Economy
* Russia: Next year, Russian banks with state participation may receive the right to legally exchange cryptocurrencies for rubles for residents of the Russian Federation.
* Russia: The Central Bank of Russia is testing a system for making payments in digital rubles (CBDC) without access to electricity.
* EU: The European regulator is preparing to expand supervision over the crypto sector as part of the reform of financial regulation.
* Venezuela: Due to hyperinflation and a shortage of US dollar cash, the country’s economy has effectively switched to using USDT.
* USA: Financial giant Morgan Stanley recommends a “conservative” allocation of assets into cryptocurrencies to its clients.

🕵️ Fraud and Incidents
* Russia: In Moscow, a woman was detained who pretended to be the niece of Sergei Shoigu and stole over 100 million rubles, offering investments in a “profitable crypto exchange.”
* Hack: The Abracadabra DeFi protocol was hacked, losses amounted to about $1.7 million.
* Singapore: At a crypto conference, Russian businessman Alex Kano (Alexander Laskin) was detained at the request of the United States.

⛏️ Mining
* Russia: In St. Petersburg, police seized more than 2,700 mining devices, discovering underground farms that underreported electricity consumption.
* Russia: At the Omsk TETs-4 power plant, an illegal connection to the power grid for crypto mining was revealed. An employee received 500,000 rubles for connecting two mining farms bypassing the meters.

💡 Projects and Updates
* Solana is launching sales of the PSG1 gaming console and the PLAY gaming token.
* Trust Wallet announced the Trust Alpha platform for launching new tokens.
* Grayscale will add a staking option to its Ethereum ETF and Solana ETF.
* DeFiLlama suspended the publication of data on Aster perpetual futures due to suspicions of artificially inflated trading volumes.

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