Daily Summary, 30 September

🇷🇺 Russia
* In the business quarter “Moscow-City” temporarily closed all crypto-exchangers.
* The Central Bank of Russia plans in January-February 2026 to conduct a survey of the population’s investments in cryptocurrencies and lending to crypto companies.
* In St. Petersburg, police detained a 27-year-old organizer and his 44-year-old accomplice, who were engaged in the buying and selling of bank cards (so-called “drops”).

⚖️ Regulation and Institutions
* The head of the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Paul Atkins stated that regulating cryptocurrency is for him “priority number one”.
* In Turkey, they are tightening control over the crypto-industry.
* The payment system Visa is launching a pilot project for making payments in stablecoins for companies.
* The European financial giant Deutsche Börse and the company Circle will study the possibility of using stablecoins USDC and EURC on European financial markets.
* The consortium SWIFT and the project Chainlink launched a pilot project with the participation of the bank UBS, allowing banks to directly work with tokenized funds.

💰 Major Deals and Investors
* The company Tether bought an additional 8,888 BTC for the amount of $1 billion.
* The exchange FTX began payments to investors for the amount of about $1.6 billion.

🔨 Incidents and Law Enforcement
* A Chinese citizen, Zhiqin Qian, pleaded guilty to theft and laundering of cryptocurrency. She had 61,000 BTC seized, which today is estimated at more than $6.7 billion.

🤖 Technologies
* The company OpenAI added to ChatGPT the function of making purchases. Users can search for goods and place orders right in the dialogue, without going to other sites.

I hope this overview was useful for you. If you require more detailed information on any of the points, let me know.