A7A5 News

A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin, processed over $100B in its first year as EU and US sanctions targeted its infrastructure.

BitcoinWorld Ruble Stablecoin Issuer A7A5 Boldly Targets 20% of Russian Trade Settlements Amid Global Shift MOSCOW, April 2025 – In a significant development for global trade finance, ruble-pegged stablecoin issuer A7A5 has announced an ambitious...

Oleg Ogienko, the public face of A7A5, pitched the ruble-pegged stablecoin as a fast-growing trade rail built to move money across borders despite sanctions pressure.

BitcoinWorld A7A5 Stablecoin: The Explosive $100B Ruble Token Fueling Global Sanctions Evasion Fears In a stunning revelation from London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, the Russian ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5 has processed over $100...

Elliptic says the ruble-pegged A7A5 processed nearly 250,000 onchain transactions, demonstrating how stablecoins facilitate cross-border flows under sanctions pressure.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) transacted more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions and fuel cybercriminal operations, according to Chainalysis. The figure could be higher, given that it only accounts for sanctions...

A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months.

Sanctions, capital controls and Russia’s improvised financial plumbing helped create A7A5, a ruble stablecoin built on a currency rarely used in global commerce, allowing it to appear legally at major events even as its presence leaves compliance...

Sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex is quietly moving funds again, according to an on-chain payout architecture uncovered by blockchain analytics firm Global Ledger.  The forensic evidence confirmed that Russian actors have rebuilt a functioning...

Monetary Authority of Singapore spokesperson tells CoinDesk that entities not regulated as financial institutions are not subject to sanctions measures.