Bitcoin Drops Below $62K as Trump Scraps Iran Deal
Geopolitical risk is back in the driving seat: Trump's decision to scrap the Iran memorandum pulled BTC below a key support level and revived the safe-haven bid in oil and gold.
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Geopolitical risk is back in the driving seat: Trump's decision to scrap the Iran memorandum pulled BTC below a key support level and revived the safe-haven bid in oil and gold.
A full-bilateral severance with a NATO ally would be the most aggressive trade move of the second Trump term and risks widening the tariff war into a transatlantic rupture.
The Reserve Bank wants prohibition-leaning policy as tax officials flag that under a quarter of 645,000 crypto users reported transactions, even as India still hosts roughly 39 million investors…
India hosts 39M crypto holders and $2.1B in digital assets, yet the central bank keeps lobbying for prohibition while tax authorities flag widespread underreporting and offshore tracking gaps.
Eli Ben-Sasson's 4% perpetual issuance pitch reframes a long-taboo question: what replaces the 21M cap when lost keys permanently shrink circulating supply.
The by-election matters less than the underlying disclosure failures: a $6.7M unreported gift from a Tether stakeholder and a parallel probe into a convicted fraudster's funding.
The collapse of the framework agreement removes a fragile diplomatic channel and pulls crude and risk assets into a geopolitical risk-off lens that crypto won't escape.
India's central bank wants a near-total block on crypto, framing the stance as prohibition rather than regulation.
A second wave of US strikes on Iranian IRGC assets in the Strait of Hormuz hit a market already de-risking, with spot BTC selling off first and ETH caught in the rotation.
The burn itself is routine treasury plumbing, but Binance's Tron USDT balance slipping under $1B for the first time since late 2025 is the move traders are watching.
SDNY Judge Torres ruled the CEA does not preempt state gambling law over Kalshi's sports-event contracts, putting the fight with regulators in the world's financial capital squarely in the loss…
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A fresh US-Iran escalation is doing exactly what the February oil shock did: pushing energy prices higher, dragging rate-cut expectations lower, and forcing a rotation out of risk assets including…
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The proposal would shield tokenized securities and on-chain DeFi activity from enforcement risk, the clearest signal yet that the agency is moving from courtroom enforcement to written rules for…
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The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly a fifth of global oil shipments; a direct US-Iran kinetic exchange there is the risk-off macro shock markets have been pricing as tail.
The model's bull case leans on ETF inflows above $1.5B, RLUSD circulation past $1.7B, and a growing payments partnership book, but the price still has to clear resistance near $1.20 first.
A single operator, 60 retail victims, and a commodity pool the agency says never existed as advertised. The case is small in dollar terms but textbook in registration and reporting failures.