Elliptic says the ruble-pegged A7A5 processed nearly 250,000 onchain transactions, demonstrating how stablecoins facilitate ...

Russia’s ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 has surpassed more than $100 billion in transactions in less than a year.

The rise of the Russian ruble in 2025 was far from a minor financial detail. Against all expectations—amid strict sanctions, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, and falling oil revenues—the ruble ...

Some $158 billion worth of illicit crypto traded last year, and much of that activity came from just one source: a ruble-pegged stablecoin with ties to Russia.

The monetary authority in Moscow is now working to convince Russians that its upcoming digital ruble will actually make them ...

Russia's ruble has fallen a long way in recent months, and the country’s central bank has stepped in to try to halt the slide. Until now, the government stood aside as the declining ruble helped its ...

Last year, Cryptopolitan reported that Russia’s currency won a race no one expected it to enter. The ruble has beaten every ...

A ruble-denominated stablecoin outpaced the biggest dollar-pegged tokens last year, adding almost $90 billion in circulating supply even though its backers are sanctioned by Western governments. The ...

The lead story on the front page of Tuesday's edition of Moskovskij Komsomolets, a major state-run newspaper in Moscow, is the uproar over the rising price of potatoes. One lawmaker is calling on the ...

The ruble has come off its lows from earlier in the week after the central bank halted all foreign currency purchases for the remainder of the year, but it remains battered—and resources for ...