Crypto Shifts to Infrastructure — Strategy Abandons Ideology, Wall Street Prepares Lawsuit. Crypto Recap №144
Week 20, May 5 – 11, 2026 This week marked the shift of cryptocurrencies into institutional payment and settlement systems. AWS integrated micropayments in USDC through the Coinbase x402 protocol for...
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UBS, together with other Swiss financial institutions, is launching a sandbox to test stablecoins in Swiss francs.
The project will allow for the testing of token usage in various scenarios and the accumulation of experience in digital payment methods. The project is set to launch this year using the infrastructur...
Iran intends to charge $1 in BTC for each barrel of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
This was announced by the spokesperson of the Iranian Oil Exporters' Union, Hamid Hosseini. He also justified additional ship inspections with concerns over weapons transport during the two-week cease...
South Korea Tightens Cryptocurrency Regulations
The ruling Democratic Party is preparing a draft law that classifies stablecoins as currency payment instruments. They intend to prohibit issuers from paying interest to stablecoin holders. However, t...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has published its rules under the GENIUS Act.
Issuers of payment stablecoins will be treated as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The regulator will require them to establish and maintain an anti-money laundering (AML) and...
The SEC acknowledges that enforcement against cryptocurrencies has not provided adequate benefits and protection to investors.
Since the 2022 fiscal year, the agency has initiated 95 cases and imposed fines totaling $2.3 billion for accounting rule violations. Seven cases related to the registration of crypto firms and six ca...
Argentinian banks are testing JPMorgan's JPM Coin to speed up settlements
The testing is conducted without moving real funds. Transactions are executed through traditional systems, while blockchain is used for recording and reconciling operations. In the initial phase, bank...
South Korea has mandated cryptocurrency exchanges to reconcile their internal records with actual assets every five minutes.
An audit revealed that 3 out of the 5 largest exchanges in the country were reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. Systems designed to suspend trading were also found to be ineffective. This l...
Binance to Restrict Spot Trading During Low Liquidity Periods Starting April 14
The mechanism will allow trading only within price ranges around the benchmark price of recent trades. The parameters of the range will be published after the rule comes into effect, and they will dif...
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has published oversight regulations for stablecoin issuers in accordance with the GENIUS Act.
The regulations include reserves of at least 1:1, redemption within two business days, a minimum capital of $5 million, and standards for storage and risk management. However, the rules do not allow t...
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In-depth analysis Crypto Shifts to Infrastructure — Strategy Abandons Ideology, Wall Street Prepares Lawsuit. Crypto Recap №144
Week 20, May 5 – 11, 2026 This week marked the shift of cryptocurrencies into institutional payment and settlement systems. AWS integrated micropayments in USDC through the Coinbase x402 protocol for...
DeFi Covers Its $305 Million Gap — New York Court Turns Rescue into Sanctions Front Against North Korea. Crypto Recap No. 143
Week 19, April 28 – May 4, 2026 The week saw two mature processes and one new controversy. Regulators in the EU, UK, US, and Brazil are rewriting the framework for stablecoins and tokenized assets. Pr...
**DeFi Repairs $200 Million Hole Itself, Governments Simultaneously Open Sanction Floodgates and Mining Offshore: Crypto Recap #142**
**Week 18, April 20 – 27** The week marked a transition from shock to adaptation. Mantle, Lido, and Kulichov's personal fund gathered $87 million to cover Aave's deficit after the Kelp DAO hack, while...
While Lazarus zeros out DeFi by $13.8 billion, regulators, exchanges, and governments build crypto infrastructure. Crypto Recap #141 Week 17, April 13 – 20
The week unfolded with four simultaneous vectors. The Lazarus group hacked Kelp DAO for $293 million, causing the largest quarterly collapse of DeFi TVL by 14%, losing $13.8 billion. Meanwhile, Japan,...
Crypto is becoming infrastructure—simultaneously for American AML, Korean exchanges, and Iranian tankers. Crypto Recap No. 140 Week 15, April 7–13
The week highlighted that the crypto market is moving concurrently on four parallel trajectories. The American GENIUS finally received operational rules—stablecoins are transforming into banking infra...
Crypto Quietly Becomes Financial Infrastructure — While North Korea Withdraws $280 Million. Crypto Recap No. 139 Week 14, March 31 – April 6
The week highlighted two parallel processes: institutional and regulatory infrastructure is strengthening, while security threats and political activity in the crypto industry are intensifying. Strate...
Regulatory Architecture of the Crypto Industry Is Forming Faster Than the Market Can Reassess It
The week was marked by increased institutional pressure on the crypto market. Strategy announced plans to raise $44.1 billion, the SEC submitted digital asset classification rules, and the White House completed its review of crypto access to 401(k) plans.
The Crypto Market Is Becoming More Integrated Into the System While Global Finance Is in Turmoil
The most notable shift of the week is the accelerated institutionalization of crypto infrastructure through payments, trading, and market architecture.
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