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Updated April 17, 2026 · 3:45 PM UTC

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Payments

Tech giant Stripe takes the plunge into crypto

Stripe is bringing its highly-regarded payments infrastructure to all crypto businesses with support for exchanges, wallet providers and NFT marketplaces.

4 years ago

Payments

MoonPay suspends operations in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

Leading crypto payments services provider, MoonPay, has suspended its operations in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

4 years ago

Adoption

This $70 million art could be paid for in Bitcoin or Ethereum

Philips once accepted crypto payment for a Banksy artwork in 2020.

4 years ago

Adoption

Justin Sun gets salty over Ukraine’s airdrop ignoring TRON community

The founder of TRON has proved yet again that even ostensibly good deeds could bite you in the asset.

4 years ago

Legal

Why Russia can’t use crypto to evade sanctions

Can the Russian regime and elite use crypto to evade sanctions? This is a heated debate among people in crypto, the media and some politicians. The answer according to crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky is no.

4 years ago

Exchanges

Binance reportedly suspends fiat deposits via some Russian-issued bank cards

Clients of some sanctioned Russian banks are unable to deposit fiat or buy crypto on Binance.

4 years ago

Culture

Ukraine post DOT address, hence Polkadot’s Gavin Wood donates $5.7M

Yesterday, after the official Ukrainian Twitter account posted BTC and ETH addresses for donations, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood tweeted he’ll donate $5 million if Ukraine posted a DOT address. In a remarkable turn, this is exactly what happened.

4 years ago

People

Polkadot’s Gavin Wood to donate $5M to Ukraine, if they post a DOT address

As donations are pouring into various charities to support Ukraine, people are lining up to contribute. In a rather criticized tweet, Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum, and founder of Polkadot, offers $5 million to Ukraine under the condition they post a DOT address.

4 years ago

Legal

Russia SWIFT sanctions “picked carefully” to avoid German energy crisis

As Western countries have agreed on imposing restrictions cutting off Russian banks from the SWIFT global payment system, affected Russian banks are “picked carefully” to minimize potential energy crises.

4 years ago