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Russia's central bank, which authorised crypto derivatives for financial firms in May 2025 and approved only BTC, ETH and USDT for public trading.
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Russia's Finance Ministry paid some staff in digital rubles on Oct. 1, after 2025 budget trials worth nearly 16 million rubles. Payroll transfers are free on the central bank's platform through 2026, so the state carries the cost of moving its wages over.
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Bank of Russia draft rules would make banks list clients' crypto, sale income and mining proceeds on account statements from July 1, 2027. Officials file those statements with anti-corruption declarations, so their coins in licensed custody would reach the state on a bank's record.
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Sber says it will take USDT and Ether as loan collateral once the Bank of Russia permits public trading, which means the menu is set by the listing tests the central bank published on 11 August, not by the bank's appetite.
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Named telecoms and marketplaces begin taking the state's digital ruble on September 1, and a phased law makes acceptance compulsory by 2028, while paying with crypto stays illegal.
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Russia's two dominant marketplaces say they will accept digital rubles from September 1, with wallets opening inside existing bank apps. The mandate for large chains is dated a year later.
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MOEX says its first two perpetual futures, on bitcoin and ethereum indices, arrive in September, days after the digital currency law takes effect and with the approved asset list down to three.
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