US Freezes $344M in USDT Tied to Iran, Tether Blacklists Wallets
Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
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Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
A 512x jump from September's record is still 241 bits short of touching bitcoin — but a Google paper now pegs the full break below 500,000 physical qubits, and 6.9M BTC sit in exposed-key wallets.
The OTC block is small relative to Bitmine's 4.97M ETH stash, but it shows a treasury-firm bid still live while peers have stepped back — and routes fresh capital straight to the Foundation.
The probe's closure lifts the Tillis hold that had blocked Kevin Warsh's confirmation — and Kalshi's Warsh-confirmation odds jumped from ~30% to 80%+ on the news, signaling traders see a near-term…
The trading firm wants the bankruptcy estate's insider-trading claims dismissed with prejudice, arguing the $40B collapse has already been adjudicated in Do Kwon's criminal case.
A $75B raise at a $1.75T valuation, layered onto $240B+ from OpenAI and Anthropic, would pull risk-on capital from the same pool that has been bidding crypto higher through the spot-ETF era.
81% of BTC's short-term moves now statistically track the dollar as DXY rebounds from 97.63 to 98.75 and the rally above $79,000 stalls on Hormuz-driven oil headwinds.
Universal green across the broad index, but APT and AAVE did the heaviest lifting — a thin tape where the leaders define the day.
The administration's 9.9% position, converted from CHIPS Act grants at $20.47 in August, is now worth roughly $35.4 billion — an $26.5B unrealized gain that recasts industrial policy as an active…
The cooling is happening on every surface at once — open interest down 6%, funding rates negative, downside put demand persisting — yet spot is holding a constructive higher-low structure above $77K.
Greenspan agrees the bottom is in but says the real driver ahead is central banks adding BTC to reserves alongside gold — and the US strategic reserve, El Salvador's daily buys, and 300K US-held…
Welfare pilots are a pragmatic adoption lever, but e-rupee lifetime volume of $3.6B still trails UPI's $300B-a-month rail — and the BRICS linkage ambition invites a U.S. tariff response.
Exodus CEO JP Richardson frames the setup: Morgan Stanley, Schwab and BlackRock keep adding to spot ETFs while retail capitulates, and the 20-week moving average is back at a level that's triggered…
Manuel Bllye — the analyst who nailed the October bearish call before the slide to $60K — says his model has now flipped and Ethereum confirming Bitcoin's higher highs is what seals the read.
The thesis matters because a Fed chair publicly framing AI as a deflationary productivity shock is the strongest dovish setup for the rate-cut path markets have had in months.
St. Louis Fed's Musalem now sees core inflation near 3% for 2026 and rates potentially unchanged — the bullish case for BTC's liquidity tailwind is suddenly conditional on Hormuz traffic normalising…
Chart structures for ETH and the ex-top-10 altcoin index are nearly identical, both sitting ~1,600 days off the 2021 high with prior cycle drawdowns of 82-94% already priced in — the upside math is…
Circle, Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple and Chainlink signed a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee as the bill's timeline slips from April into May, warning that another stall would unwind a year…
BIS chief Pablo Hernandez de Cos just called global cooperation on stablecoins "critically important" — the language of systemic risk, not investor protection.
Binance alone cleared $1.09T in 2026 volume — and the BIS says the platforms with the deepest books are exactly the ones behaving like unregulated banks, with no capital buffers, no deposit…