Behind Russia's public crypto plans, bank recruitment notices describe a more detailed buildout from cross-border liquidity to DeFi risk, The Coinformer found.

Russia's biggest bank wants to expand loans backed by crypto, but a new central bank draft could make those assets much less useful as collateral.

Russia's biggest exchange is expanding deeper into crypto with dollar-quoted perpetual futures whose profits and losses never leave the ruble system.

Sanctioned Russian lender Sber plans to accept USDT as collateral for loans, even though Tether reserves the power to freeze and blacklist wallets.

Russia's CBDC rollout is running into an Apple problem as sanctioned banks struggle to distribute digital-ruble-enabled iPhone apps.

Binance supplied Russia with extensive personal data that later became evidence in a terrorism-financing case, documents reviewed by Reuters show.

The Bank of Russia omitted USDC from a retail crypto whitelist less than two months after a deputy finance minister said the stablecoin would be included.

Russia is giving P2P crypto traders until July 2027 before forcing them through authorized intermediaries.

The surveillance proposal could turn direct security-service access into a requirement for exchanges allowed to operate under Russia's emerging crypto rules.

Russia detained the founder of a Bitcoin mining giant that once controlled over half its market and seized company stakes over alleged billion-ruble fraud.

Russia's proposed rules require crypto custodians to hold between $640,000 and $3.2 million in capital, although Bitcoin can't count toward it.

Binance says it left Russia for compliance reasons, yet its latest recruitment post opens with Moscow City, where sanctioned crypto exchanges once kept offices.

Ilan Shor, the convicted fraudster running Russia-linked payment network A7, says he wants customers in places which have already sanctioned him.

Russia's elite have moved billions of dollars abroad, with crypto becoming one way to move wealth across borders and beyond the Kremlin's reach.

The estimate counts lower costs for businesses and new income for banks, but assumes the state-controlled digital currency eventually reaches large-scale adoption.

Digital ruble infrastructure was hacked in a Russian cyber drill after attackers found basic security failures in a simulated banking system.

Russia's central bank says domestic crypto storage should run through custodial wallets only.

Russian banks may soon face a hard 1% capital cap on their crypto exposure, as the Bank of Russia wants lenders to treat tokens as assets that can be blocked.