
Russia
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19 June, 2022
Russia’s Sber bank first digital assets transaction scheduled for July
Sber—formerly Sberbank—is set to begin issuing and trading digital financial assets on its in-house digital assets platform, with first transaction...
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18 June, 2022
Russian bill banning use of digital assets as payment passes first reading
The bill proposes to directly prohibit the use of digital financial assets and utilitarian digital rights as a payment method...
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15 June, 2022
Lithuanian government approves tightening of digital currency regulations
The proposals in the law include a tightening of the guidelines for user identification and a ban on anonymous accounts,...
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12 June, 2022
Russian state-owned company builds blockchain-based replacement for SWIFT
Rostec, a state-owned defense conglomerate in Moscow, has announced that it has developed a blockchain platform that can be used...
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11 June, 2022
Russian parliament introduces bill to ban use of digital assets as payment
The new bill introduced by the head of the House Financial Markets Committee, Anatoly Aksakov, proposes to clarify that only...
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3 June, 2022
Russia Trade Ministry: BTC mining consumes more power than agriculture, must be regulated
The deputy minister of trade and industry says block reward miners account for about 2% of national electricity, adding that...