Passenger flow through western border of Ukraine in September 2024, thousand
More than 2.1 thousand declarations with cryptocurrencies were filed by Ukrainian officials in 2024. This is 2.2 times more than before the full-scale campaign. Representatives of the National Police of Ukraine are particularly active in declaring cryptocurrencies. Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC, XBT), and Ethereum (ETH) remain the most popular cryptocurrencies among officials.
Ukrainian officials are increasingly mentioning cryptocurrencies in their declarations. Thus, 2113 declarations with cryptocurrency were filed by officials in 2024. This is 2.2 times more than before the full-scale campaign. The number of such declarations increased by 10% over the year.
Representatives of law enforcement agencies are particularly active in declaring cryptocurrencies. The National Police of Ukraine is the most active: 322 declarations mentioning cryptocurrency. This is 15% of all such declarants.
The prosecutor’s office is not far behind: cryptocurrency is listed in 240 declarations. Judges filed 227 such documents, and there were 119 officials with digital assets in city councils. Among the representatives of the Armed Forces, cryptocurrency was listed in 77 declarations. In another 38 cases, crypto was declared by NABU representatives.
If we look at the geography of crypto declarations, everything is more predictable. Kyiv and the region are in the lead with 582 and 185 officials with cryptocurrencies. In Kharkiv region, 172 civil servants declared crypto, and in Dnipropetrovs’k region, 167. Lviv region rounds out the top five with 133 cryptocurrency declarants.
The most frequently declared crypto-dollars are Tether (USDT) – 802 civil servants. Bitcoin (BTC, XBT), despite all the exchange rate fluctuations, consistently ranks second with 731 declarations. Ethereum (ETH) was declared by 713 officials.
The most bitcoins were declared by Oleh Bondarenko, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy. He has 80 BTC on his account, which is equal to UAH 279.4 million as of April 1. The leader in the Ethereum (ETH) category is MP Serhiy Maisel, who owns 200 tokens equivalent to UAH 15.5 million. However, the record for the number of crypto dollars belongs to Vitaliy Brovko, head of a department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, who has 847,908 USDT in his declaration, which is estimated at UAH 35 million.
It is also worth noting that there are several ex-officials who could have made it to the top, but indicated that they had lost access to their crypto assets. 380.95 bitcoins – a record amount among Ukrainian officials – were reported and lost in 2021 by Roman Saramaga, Deputy Head of the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine. This is about UAH 1.33 billion in hryvnia equivalent as of April 1, 2025.
The largest amount of ethereum – 1,800 units or more than UAH 140 million as of April 1 of this year – belongs to Ihor Osipov, a deputy of the Podil District Council of Odesa Oblast. However, in last year’s declaration, the official noted that he had lost access to his assets.
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US cryptocurrency company Circle has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to documents on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website. JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are the lead underwriters of the offering, and Circle’s shares will trade under the ticker “CRCL.”
According to unofficial reports cited by CNBC, the company expects a valuation of up to $5 billion.
This is its second attempt to go public. In late 2022, amid regulatory concerns, it declined to go public through a merger with SPAC (Specialized Mergers and Acquisitions Company) investor Bob Diamond’s Concord Acquisition Corp. At the time, the terms of the deal implied a $9 billion valuation for Circle, the Financial Times noted.
Circle’s revenue rose to $1.68 billion in 2024 from $1.45 billion the year before and $772 million two years earlier. Net income fell to about $156 million last year from $268 million the year before.
Circle was founded in 2013. The company initially focused on products to facilitate cryptocurrency payments. In 2018, it partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to launch the Center Consortium project to create a stablecoin (stablecoin is a generic name for cryptocurrencies that are backed by national currencies and assets) USD Coin (USDC) and build infrastructure for related services.
USDC is pegged to the U.S. dollar at a 1:1 exchange rate and is backed by cash and short-term obligations of the U.S. Treasury. It is the second most capitalized steiblcoin in the world ($60 billion, or 26% of all steiblcoin capitalization) after Tether (67%). At the same time, its capitalization jumped by 36% this year against the growth of 5% for Tether.
If the IPO is successful, Circle will become one of the leading U.S.-listed issuers with businesses centered on cryptocurrencies, CNBC writes. Coinbase went public in 2021 and has a market value of about $44 billion.
Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group supplies steel products and cooperates with Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti and steel construction manufacturer Cimolai. Mariotti and steel construction manufacturer Cimolai.
According to Metinvest, two twin ships – polar class expedition ships Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit – were built from Metinvest Trametal (Italy) steel for Seabourn Cruise Line.
It is specified that 10 thousand tons of Metinvest Trametal hot-rolled sheet were used for construction of Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit.
Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit are compact cruise ships with reinforced hull, which allows them to make voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic in the fall and summer seasons. They are equipped with modern equipment and technology, and each ship has two submarines on board. The ships are 172 meters long and 24 meters wide. They can accommodate 260 passengers and 120 crew members in 132 cabins.
Each ship has 10 decks, 8 of which are with passenger access.
It is also noted that the companies T. Mariotti and Cimolai have been cooperating with Metinvest for a long time.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical enterprises. The group’s enterprises are located primarily in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The group has three rolling mills in Western Europe – Ferriera Valsider (Verona) and Metinvest Trametal (San Giorgio di Nogaro) in Italy and Spartan in the UK, as well as Promet Steel in Bulgaria.
The main shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%), which jointly manage it. Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
Lviv municipal enterprise “Lvivelectrotrans” on March 31 announced a tender for compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles (trolleybuses) and carrier’s liability insurance, according to the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
The lot for voluntary insurance of liability to third parties in economic activities by legal entities or individuals – entrepreneurs and voluntary insurance of property is also specified.
The expected cost of purchasing the services is UAH 12.501 mln.
The deadline for submission of documents is April 8.
