MINE.exchange has gathered the latest Web3 news from the past week that you might have missed.
- Pakistan is exploring the possibility of channeling excess electricity into Bitcoin mining. The idea was proposed by Bilal bin Saqib, Head of Pakistan’s Crypto Council, at the council’s first meeting held on March 21, 2025.
- Germany’s financial regulator BaFin has banned the sale of Ethena Labs’ stablecoin USDe, citing serious flaws in the product and non-compliance with MiCA regulatory standards.
- A joint study by OpenAI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed that regular interaction with ChatGPT could lead to feelings of loneliness.
- On March 25, BlackRock will launch its iShares Bitcoin ETF on the European market. Trading under the ticker IB1T will begin on the Xetra and Euronext Paris exchanges, as well as in Amsterdam.
- In the Moldovan town of Soroca, a 69-year-old priest became a victim of fraud and lost over 575,000 lei (approximately $32,000).
- The Brazilian Data Protection Authority confirmed a ban on cryptocurrency reward payments under the World ID project, citing user privacy risks.
- South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) blocked 17 foreign crypto-platform applications on Google Play, including KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex, XT, CoinEx, BitMart, and Poloniex.
- Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was transferred from a Brooklyn prison to a federal transit center in Oklahoma City on March 26.
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