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Digital Assets & Policy:  Three Words on a Doorstep When an Indianapolis councilman was targeted at home after backing a data center project, the note left behind said everything the national movement has been saying for years — just louder. Early Monday morning in Indianapolis, someone fired thirteen rounds into the front door of City-County Councilman Ron Gibson's home , then left a handwritten note on the doorstep. It read: NO DATA CENTERS . Gibson and his young son were not physically harmed. The FBI and Indiana's Department of Homeland Security are now assisting local investigators, who have characterized the attack as an isolated, targeted incident. There is no ambiguity about what this was: domestic terrorism, full stop . Violence against elected officials — or anyone — is indefensible, and the community groups opposing the Martindale-Brightwood data center were quick to say so themselves. But the note raises a question that cannot be dismissed alo...

Digital Eyes Only:  The Ghost Ledger Russia didn't crack the sanctions. It built a shadow financial system — one token at a time. And some of its moves look startlingly familiar. The Digital Desk: Open Source The file arrived quietly, as the best intelligence always does . Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis released its 2026 crime report in early March, and buried inside was a number that should have made front pages : sanctioned entities moved over $100 billion in digital assets in 2025 — a nearly sevenfold surge from the year prior . The Kremlin , it turns out, had not been cornered by Western financial pressure. It had gone underground. And it took notes from the same faucet-era hobbyist playbook some of us know well. Operation A7A5 In late 2024, Russian state interests quietly midwifed a new stablecoin into existence. Meet A7A5 — a ruble-tethered digital asset registered through Kyrgyzstan , majority-controlled by the Kremlin-aligned defense bank Proms...