Inside the fierce data dispute over whether a sanctioned Russian crypto token is actually working to evade Western blocks

Summary

• A7A5, a Russian ruble-pegged stablecoin designed to bypass Western financial channels, is at the center of a dispute over how widely it is actually used.
• The token’s issuer claims more than $200 million in average daily volume driven largely by decentralized finance activity, but blockchain analytics firms say real usage is far lower and…