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British teenager Alexander Browder stated that he has been placed on a sanctions list by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and banned from entering the country for writing a report exposing a cryptocurrency money laundering network supported by Russia.The report indicates that countries such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea launder approximately $350 billion, with a ruble stablecoin named A7A5 being one of the main issues facing Western anti-money laundering efforts. The UK Foreign Office stated that Russia uses tokens like A7A5 to evade Western sanctions and fund its military. The UK government imposed sanctions on individuals related to this network in May, which transferred over $90 billion last year. Alexander Browder expressed pride in being the first high school student globally to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for exposing corruption.

According to TASS, the Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia stated that the government committee recommends banning cryptocurrency mining in certain areas of the Moscow and Kursk regions, with the ban effective until 2032.

Investment bank TD Cowen's Washington research team managing director Jaret Seiberg released a report on Tuesday stating that the political environment surrounding the CLARITY Act is continuing to deteriorate, and the likelihood of this cryptocurrency market structure bill passing this year is decreasing. Seiberg pointed out that recent controversies involving President Trump make it difficult for Democrats to support the bill without a conflict of interest clause.Seiberg indicated that these events have increased pressure on Democrats to include a conflict of interest clause targeting the president, while also making Republicans reluctant to push legislation that could force them to vote against related amendments. He anticipates that lawmakers may choose to wait and see, but there is limited room for further delays given the upcoming midterm elections. He previously mentioned that the legislative window could extend until the August recess, and if not resolved this year, the passage time could be pushed back to 2027.

Binance will remove the following leveraged trading pairs on May 29, 2026, at 14:00: cross-margin leveraged trading pairs COW/USDC, SKL/USDC, COTI/USDC, and isolated margin leveraged trading pair COW/USDC. Users should note that the isolated margin lending business for the relevant trading pairs will be suspended on May 26, 2026, at 14:00, at which time all open orders will be automatically closed and liquidated.

According to Bits.media, the Moscow Exchange is in discussions with brokers to launch a cryptocurrency trading mode. Experts expect that cryptocurrency trading in Russia will be similar to other exchange tools, but trading hours will be extended to 24/7. Currently, the Moscow Exchange is considering whether to adopt a 24/7 model, but the final decision depends on how the clearing operations will work.In addition, the Moscow Exchange is testing the deposit and withdrawal functions for cryptocurrencies and has invited some brokers to participate in the testing. In the future, users will not be able to register cryptocurrency wallets directly on the exchange but will need to operate through brokers' digital custody accounts. The Moscow Exchange's press office stated that the platform "is actively developing solutions to serve the cryptocurrency market."

CoW DAO announced that its domain registrar was subjected to a social engineering attack on April 14, during which the attacker briefly controlled the official domain for about 4.5 hours and directed users to a phishing website, thereby inducing them to sign malicious transactions. The project team emphasized that the CoW Protocol itself was not compromised, but some user assets were affected during that time window.In response to this incident, the CoW DAO community governance proposal CIP-86 has been approved, establishing a discretionary compensation fund to reimburse affected users for their losses. The official reminder states that eligible users must submit their claims by May 14, including affected wallet addresses, asset information, transaction hashes, and names, and apply via email at [email protected], with the email subject clearly stating "Discretionary Grant Claim for".

According to Bits.media, the Moscow Exchange announced that it will launch new settlement futures trading for three digital asset indices: Solana, Ripple, and Tron, starting on May 14, limited to qualified investors.These instruments are settled in Russian rubles and do not involve physical delivery of digital assets. The quotation unit for Solana index futures is in US dollars, with a minimum price fluctuation and fluctuation value of 0.01 dollars; the minimum price fluctuation for Ripple and Tron index futures is 0.0001 dollars, with a fluctuation value of 0.01 dollars. The contract duration is one month, with the last trading day being the last Friday of each month. Contracts expiring in June, July, and August will be available starting May 14. Additionally, the Moscow Exchange will begin calculating and publishing indices for four cryptocurrencies: Solana, Ripple, Tron, and BNB on May 13.

According to The Block, TD Cowen analysts raised the target price for Strategy (MSTR) from $385 to $395, implying an increase of over 110% from the current stock price.Analysts believe that Strategy's increased use of STRC (variable rate perpetual preferred stock) to fund Bitcoin acquisitions significantly enhances capital efficiency and is more attractive than the current market pricing. The company has raised over $2 billion through STRC in the first quarter of 2026, totaling over $5 billion for the year.TD Cowen also dismissed market concerns about "perpetual dilution," emphasizing that the annual dividend burden of STRC accounts for only about 2.2% of its Bitcoin holdings' value, which can be covered by moderate Bitcoin appreciation.

TD Cowen pointed out that the disagreements surrounding the stablecoin yield mechanism remain difficult to bridge, which may delay the advancement of the U.S. crypto market structure bill and even affect its chances of passing within the year.Several banking organizations, including the American Bankers Association, have formally opposed the relevant compromise proposals, arguing that allowing crypto platforms to offer stablecoin yields to users would impact traditional banks. Analysts state that the positions of banks and crypto platforms on this issue are opposed, and in the short term, "there is unlikely to be a middle ground," which has become a key obstacle in the current legislative process.

Investment bank TD Cowen stated that the disagreements surrounding the CLARITY Act go beyond the issue of stablecoin yields, and multiple real-world obstacles may slow down the legislative process.First, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is understaffed, with only one commissioner currently in office. In this situation, Congress is unlikely to feel comfortable handing over more cryptocurrency regulatory responsibilities to the agency, and filling the personnel gaps will take months. Second, the issue of prediction markets is heating up. Whether to include it in the bill's regulation, as well as potential insider trading and conflicts of political interest (including controversies related to Trump-related projects), may lead some Democratic lawmakers to oppose the bill.At the same time, the ongoing controversy surrounding the Trump family's cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial is increasing the political sensitivity of the bill, making bipartisan consensus harder to achieve. Geopolitics has also become a variable. Discussions about Iran potentially using cryptocurrency payments are reinforcing the focus on anti-money laundering provisions and could even introduce amendments detrimental to the industry. Additionally, some lawmakers are attempting to include the Credit Card Competition Act, which, if advanced, could trigger new conflicts of interest and further delay the overall legislation.

CoW Swap tweeted that it has regained control of the cow.fi domain and has been operating normally on cow.finance for some time, and is currently gradually transitioning back to the original domain.The official statement indicated that the attacker deceived the DNS registrar with forged documents on April 14 to gain control of the cow.fi domain; the attacker deployed a highly realistic phishing website, implementing it in two phases: first, inducing users to sign malicious transactions through a wallet stealer, and then stealing mnemonic phrases and passwords through fake wallet pop-ups; this attack targeted the domain registrar and did not involve a breach of CoW Swap's own infrastructure or private keys. Affected users should use tools like Revoke.cash to revoke all authorizations and consider transferring funds to a new wallet.

The token permission query tool Revoke.cash has launched a portal for checking affected addresses of CoW Swap. Users can enter their addresses in the portal to check if there are any unrevoked authorizations affecting them.Previously, CoW Swap's technical lead Felix Leupold tweeted that the CoW Swap frontend has resumed online, and users can access it via swap.cow.finance. He reminded users that they should only authorize the original GPv2VaultRelayer contract address.

TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza reiterated a buy rating on Bitcoin reserve company MSTR and raised the target price to $385.

According to official news, the Blockaid system has detected a front-end attack targeting Cowswap, and the website COW[.]FI has been marked as a malicious site. If the user's wallet is connected, please revoke authorization immediately and avoid any interaction with this DApp.

According to official news, HTX DAO has confirmed its appearance at the 2026 Blockchain Forum. During this period, Wendy Wang, the head of HTX CIS region, and Tigran Akhunts, the head of P2P business in the CIS region, will be invited to attend and give speeches, discussing compliance and development opportunities in different global regional markets, as well as the evolution trends of the cryptocurrency trading market in the CIS region.In addition, in the authoritative industry selection at this forum, HTX and its global advisor Sun Yuchen received multiple heavyweight award nominations. Among them, HTX was nominated for "Best International Cryptocurrency Exchange of the Year," and Sun Yuchen was nominated for "Most Influential Cryptocurrency Figure of the Year."The Blockchain Forum is the largest cryptocurrency summit in the CIS region, which will be held from April 14 to 15 in Moscow, where more than 20,000 participants from around the world will gather to discuss topics such as Web3, cryptocurrency, mining, and artificial intelligence.

According to The Block, Jaret Seiberg, Managing Director of TD Cowen's Washington Research Group, expressed that the outlook for the passage of the U.S. crypto market structure bill, the "CLARITY Act," is "increasingly pessimistic," with only a one-third chance of passing this year. He pointed out that the recent compromise proposal regarding stablecoin yields is "insufficient" to advance the bill, as it fails to meet the demands of crypto platforms like Coinbase and does little to alleviate banks' concerns about core deposit outflows.Seiberg believes that the bill could only pass if Congress ignores the objections from Coinbase and the banking industry and forcefully pushes through the compromise proposal, but this would be an exception rather than the norm. He anticipates that if the bill makes any progress, it is most likely to occur at the end of July, just before the August recess. Congress is currently in a two-week Easter recess.

According to The Block, investment bank TD Cowen stated that the time window for the U.S. to pass the crypto market structure bill may extend to the August recess, breaking the previous expectation that legislation needed to be completed before the Easter recess.Jaret Seiberg, managing director of TD Cowen's Washington research team, pointed out that the Easter recess is not a critical milestone, and legislative work can continue before and after the recess. With the conclusion of the primaries, some lawmakers will have greater flexibility for negotiations. Seiberg believes that the August recess is the last meaningful legislative window, after which Congress will only meet for 12 days in September and 2 days in October, which is only enough time to handle spending bills and defense authorization bills.He also reiterated that if control of Congress changes after the 2026 midterm elections, the bill may be delayed until 2027. It is expected that the House may shift to Democratic control, at which point the Democrats may choose to delay until 2027 to gain greater leverage. Currently, the crypto bill is stalled due to opposition from the banking sector regarding stablecoin yields and the Democrats seeking conflict-of-interest provisions for government officials, but both sides are reportedly close to reaching a compromise. Seiberg stated that if the bill does not pass in 2026, the SEC will provide the regulatory actions needed for the crypto industry.

CoW DAO responded to the incident where "a certain whale lost approximately 50.39 million dollars due to excessive slippage when exchanging aEthAAVE," stating that "no DEX, DEX aggregator, public liquidity pool, or private liquidity pool (or their combination) can execute this transaction at a price close to a reasonable level. However, preventing users from trading would deprive them of their choices and could lead to extremely poor outcomes in certain situations (such as market crashes).Such transactions indicate that the DeFi user experience has not yet reached the level necessary to protect all users. The team is currently exploring how to balance strong security measures with maintaining user autonomy. We will also refund any fees paid to CoW DAO due to this transaction."According to previous news from ChainCatcher, a user lost approximately 50 million dollars in a single transaction due to slippage, and the founder of Aave stated that the interface had issued multiple warnings.