Daily Summary, 9 October

Main news of the day — October 09

Cryptocurrency Regulation
* 🇷🇺 Russia: The Bank of Russia will allow banks to work with cryptocurrencies. The law on regulation is expected in 2026, and the licensing system will also start working then.
* 🇷🇺 Russia (2nd stage of reform): From 2027, the introduction of administrative and criminal liability for the circulation of cryptocurrencies outside the regulated system is planned.
* 🇬🇧 UK: The government has created a department for the tokenization of financial markets to modernize the issuance of assets and trading using blockchain and AI.

Institutional News and Investments
* 🇷🇺 Russia: The Moscow Exchange plans to launch 10 cryptocurrency indices by the end of the year.
* 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: Became the first EU country to invest 1% of a state fund in a Bitcoin ETF.
* Solana: Solana Company, associated with a former top manager of UBS, purchased 2.2 million SOL ($525 million) and plans to accumulate at least 5% of all coins.
* 📈 Silver: The price of silver exceeded $50 for the first time in 15 years.

Security and Law Enforcement
* Hack: On the DEX platform Hyperliquid, one of the largest hacks of the month occurred – hackers stole about $20,000,000, gaining access to a trader’s private key.
* Asset seizure: Chainalysis experts suggest that in the future, governments could seize more than $75 billion in cryptocurrency associated with illegal activities.

Ecosystem Development
* Binance: Binance co-founder Yi He said that new company products will appear soon.
* Ethereum: The Ethereum Foundation is creating a “Privacy Cluster” team to develop privacy features on the network.

Other News
* 🇮🇳 India: The Times of India showed on its cover a kilogram gold bar that can be bought for 1 BTC.
* 🇺🇸 USA: Donald Trump proposed issuing a $250 banknote with his own image.