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Ethereum’s Co-creator Sent $5 Million in Support of Ukraine
Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated 1500 ETH worth about $5 million press-time in support of Ukraine.
The crypto prodigy of Russian origin has sent 750 ETH to “Unchain Ukraine” and another 750 ETH to “Ukraine’s Crypto Fund”. The former is a charity organization helping those Ukrainians who suffered from Russian aggression while the latter supports the Ukrainian army and cyber resistance. The Japanese government will review the Foreign Exchange Law to close backdoors for sanctions evasion
The Japanese government has stated that it will look for an opportunity to close any backdoors for sanctions evasion against the Russian Federation.
On Monday, the Japanese government made a statement that the country’s currency legislation will be revised in order to prevent Russia’s attempts to evade Western sanctions restrictions with cryptocurrency assets. For this purpose, during the next meeting of the Japanese Parliament, the Kishida government will revise the Law on Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade. This was reported to the Reuters news agency by Hirokazu Matsuno, chief secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan. 
The russian Solaris platform was hacked by the Kraken trading platform, which also targets the russian-speaking audience. Kraken claims to have taken control of Solaris' infrastructure and Gitlab repository, as well as locking and emptying its crypto wallets.
Both platforms are linked to a Russian operator and both have about 25% market share of the total volume of drugs and weapons sold on the dark web.
It is known for certain that Solaris used the services of pro-Kremlin hackers Killnet, which launched DDoS attacks on Ukrainian and European government servers in 2022.
All Solaris clients are now automatically redirected to the Kraken website because the hackers not only took control of the code and wallets but also set up a redirect.
There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling, and Russians destroying each other.
It is still unknown what kind of Kraken it is. Maybe it's some of ours 
Alex Holden, a hacker from Ukraine, has a singular gift for tracking down "bad russian guys" on the Internet. This week, he stole $25,000 in BTC from the russian dark web marketplace dubbed Solaris, and transferred the money to Kyiv charitable foundation "Enjoying Life". 
Ukrainian security services arrested a cryptocurrency wallet used to receive money for Russian troops
For the first time, the Security Service of Ukraine managed to block the cryptocurrency wallet of a Russian “volunteer” who was collecting money for military equipment for the separatists in the east of the country. The balance on the account was more than 800,000 hryvnias. 
