Daily Summary, April 30

🇮🇷 The US announced the confiscation of Iranian crypto assets worth nearly $500,000,000 as part of Operation Economic Fury.

🪙 Jack Dorsey reminded that Bitcoin is not just money, but a tool against censorship, banking control, and dependence on intermediaries like Visa and Mastercard.

Ⓜ️ Meta is launching content creator payouts in stablecoins via Stripe.

🖥 The Russian Federal Tax Service has begun mass removal of miners from the simplified tax system (STS) — even one-time mining can be considered activity outside the special regime, and individual entrepreneurs (IEs) may be transferred to the general tax system.

🐳 Tether aims to build a full-fledged crypto corporation under one brand.

🇨🇦 The Canadian sovereign wealth fund purchased Strategy shares for $219,000,000.

🌎 The next 1 billion users will come to crypto not for trading, but through real-world scenarios — payments, income products, asset tokenization, and AI.

🪙 Tether printed 1B USDT today.

⛽️ MARA, the largest US miner, is buying the Long Ridge energy company for $1.5 billion to acquire its own 505 MW gas power plant in Ohio.

☠️ Wasabi Protocol was hacked for $5,000,000 in the Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast networks.

💰 April 2026 became the record month for DeFi hacks — over 30 days, protocols lost about $635,000,000 in 28 attacks.