Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 1:42 AM EDT · New York
Non-qualified Russian investors will be limited to 300,000 rubles a year of bitcoin and stablecoins, bought only through licensed intermediaries. That keeps crypto demand inside a system the state supervises.

The Moscow Exchange has begun testing bitcoin trading with professional participants and plans to open spot trading on December 1, according to TASS, the Russian state news agency. Reports say the first assets will be bitcoin, ether, Solana…
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States Pull Crypto Trading Onshore
Governments will keep channeling citizens' crypto demand into licensed domestic venues with identity, limits and blocking of offshore platforms, turning crypto trading into a supervised national market rather than a borderless one.
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