BLOCKCHAIN • CRYPTOCURRENCY • NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the country's first crypto law, a measure that legalizes cryptocurrency trading while keeping crypto payments banned. The dual approach draws a clear line between holding or trading digital assets and using them to settle everyday transactions.
A Reuters investigation has found that a crypto network linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards moved billions of dollars through a Dubai-based exchange, thrusting the exchange's compliance controls into the spotlight and raising fresh questions about how illicit flows travel through regulated crypto infrastructure.
The push comes as a coordinated effort between Japan's chief financial regulator and its national law enforcement body, a pairing that signals the issue is being treated as both a market-integrity and a criminal matter, according to the National Police Agency .
According to reporting from The Jerusalem Post , the charges frame the recruitment effort as an Iranian operation carried out against targets in Israel. The Guardian has separately examined how Iran sought to recruit spies in Israel , describing the broader pattern of alleged recruitment.
The reported restructuring, referenced in material published by the FSA , would give crypto assets and stablecoins their own supervisory home rather than folding them into broader financial oversight. For related coverage, see Japan's Top Crypto Exchanges Huobi Japan and Fisco Under Investigation by the FSA .
GameStop (GME) shares fell around 10% after the company announced a $1. 4 billion debt-for-equity exchange, converting a portion of its convertible senior notes into stock.
The figure positions RAIN at the top of this month's unlock hierarchy, according to RAIN's vesting schedule . ADI, PROVE, and KAITO follow as the next-largest named releases, each tracked through their respective vesting timelines on ADI's vesting page , PROVE's vesting page , and KAITO's vesting page .
Minnesota is banning cryptocurrency kiosks after residents lost nearly $1 million to scams routed through the machines, making the state's crypto kiosk ban one of the most direct consumer-protection responses to kiosk fraud to date.
The scheduled change means gains realized on cryptocurrency will fall under South Korea's tax framework beginning on the first day of 2027, according to South Korean reporting . The policy is forward-looking rather than retroactive, applying from the effective date onward.
JPMorgan has warned that fading odds of passing the Clarity Act could weigh on the crypto market outlook, framing a legislative stall as a risk to sentiment and confidence rather than a settled negative for prices.
The transactions appear in ARK Invest's published trade notifications , which the firm releases at the end of each trading day. The disclosures identify Bitmine among the crypto-related equities ARK reduced on July 29, alongside other names in the same basket.
Because the rules are still a draft, they are open to revision before any adoption. The publication signals active policy movement, but it does not by itself establish binding requirements for market participants.