Russia Sets Deadline for P2P Crypto Trading Ban
The Bank of Russia will prohibit peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading starting July 1, 2027, mandating that all digital asset transactions occur through licensed intermediaries.

The Bank of Russia will prohibit peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading starting July 1, 2027, mandating that all digital asset transactions occur through licensed intermediaries.

Chainalysis reports a 43-fold increase in unique P2P stablecoin wallets in China, with $104.1 billion in self-custodied transfers recorded between July 2025 and June 2026.

Chainalysis reports that China's crypto market reached $176.3 billion, with P2P stablecoin transactions forming a parallel payment network despite local regulatory bans.

Chainalysis reports a 43-fold increase in P2P stablecoin wallet activity in China between 2024 and 2026, despite strict regulatory measures against crypto trading.

Singapore's crypto economy grew by 55.4% to $284 billion, while the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam saw a surge in small-value peer-to-peer transfers.

A researcher has unlocked peer-to-peer memory access on NVIDIA CMP 90HX mining GPUs by leveraging internal driver debugging tools.

The ONLY project has launched Cryptomat, a white-label service that enables businesses to run their own cryptocurrency exchange platforms within Telegram using the ONLYP2P infrastructure.

UK regulators and police have raided three London sites suspected of facilitating unregistered peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading, citing risks of money laundering.

Tether is building a decentralized search engine called Hypersearch, which uses peer-to-peer architecture to distribute index and search processes across a network of nodes.
