Daily Digest, July 21
🚓 Starting in 2026, Russians will face fines for crypto payments — Penalties introduced: ₽100,000 for individuals, ₽700,000 for businesses.
📊 Last week’s net inflow into spot Bitcoin ETFs totaled $2.39B.
☠️ Indian exchange CoinDCX hacked for $44.2M.
🪙 Strategy purchased 6,220 BTC ($740M) last week at an average price of $118,940 per coin.
🇺🇸 Five major U.S. banking associations urge regulators to halt licenses for Ripple, Circle, and Fidelity.
🇬🇧 UK Home Office plans to sell $7B in confiscated Bitcoin.
🇨🇳 Chinese startup Conflux to launch offshore yuan-backed stablecoin in August.
🪙 Ethereum turns 10 — First block mined July 20, 2015; mainnet launched July 30.
🖼 Whale spent 2,000+ ETH to buy 45 CryptoPunks — Floor price surged 15% in 24 hours.
🔧 Ethereum core developers tentatively target November 2025 for the Fusaka hardfork, aimed at boosting efficiency, scalability, and future readiness.
🕵️♂️ Another user loses $1.23M to NFT phishing transaction.
🐋 Dynamix merges to form Ether Machine — New entity plans $1.5B Ethereum treasury buy.
📹 Netflix debuts generative AI in content — Used for a collapsing building scene in Argentinian series El Eternauta.
💰 Trump Media adds $2B in Bitcoin to corporate treasury.
👀 2013-era crypto whale moves 250 BTC ($30M) to Binance.
🔮 Prediction platform Polymarket acquires crypto exchange, preps U.S. launch.







