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Iran’s Crypto Gambit: How a $7.8 Billion Shadow Economy Became a Geopolitical Weapon
Iran is pushing deeper into cryptocurrency use, proposing a new system where oil tankers pay transit tolls in digital assets, an effort aimed at bypassing sanctions and securing untraceable revenue...
Matterhorn and ASI Alliance Add Safety Layer to AI Smart Contract Coding
Matterhorn and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance are rolling out new tools aimed at making AI-generated smart contracts safer for crypto. The initiative focuses on “vibe coding,” a workflow where developers...
XRP Loses Momentum as Binance Trading Activity Falls to 2025 Low
XRP price remained under pressure as Binance data showed a drop in trading activity. Arab Chain, a verified analyst on CryptoQuant, said XRP’s Volume Z-Score fell to its lowest level...
Iran Demands Cryptocurrency Toll for Strait of Hormuz Transit
Iran is now requiring cryptocurrency payments from tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for global trade. According to Chainalysis, the Iranian government is demanding digital...
XRP News: Japanese XRP Payment Pilots Report 60% Savings Over SWIFT
Japanese financial institutions are putting XRP’s payments use case back at the center of the market after reported pilot results from Tokyo showed faster settlement and sharply lower transfer costs. ...
CLARITY Act Odds Slip as Lummis Calls This the Last Window
Senator Cynthia Lummis is turning up the pressure on Congress to pass the CLARITY Act, framing the current moment as the narrowest and most important window left for U.S. crypto...
Trump Says US is Clearing Strait of Hormuz Mines After Crushing Iran
On April 11, 2026, President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States had begun clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz. He claimed that American forces had destroyed Iran’s...
ETH Surges 7.12%, Outperforming BTC as Capital Rotation Accelerates
On April 10, 2026, CryptoQuant published two QuickTakes showing that Ethereum (ETH) outperformed Bitcoin (BTC) in March, with ETH surging by 7.12% while BTC gained only 1.83%. Ethereum’s network activity...
Bitcoin Price Eyes Higher Range as Analysts Flag Reversal Threat
Bitcoin price moved higher in recent days and climbed back above $72,000 after a mixed U.S. inflation report. The recovery pushed BTC close to the $73,000 area and brought fresh...
Peter Schiff Blasts Trump ‘Victory’ Spin on Iran War, Economy Out
Economist and gold advocate Peter Schiff has criticized President Donald Trump for framing the U.S.-Iran conflict as a “total and complete victory.” In a post on X, Schiff argued that...
US Government Moves $177,000 in Seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime
The US government moved 2.44 Bitcoin worth approximately $177,000 to a Coinbase Prime address this week, with on-chain data linking the funds to wallets labelled as seized assets from a...
Circle Breaks Silence on $270 Million Drift Exploit
When North Korean state-affiliated hackers stole roughly $270 million from Drift Protocol on April 1, converting a significant portion into USDC and bridging it through Circle’s own Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol,...
Circle brise le silence sur l’exploit de Drift de 270 millions de dollars
Lorsque des hackers affiliés à l’État nord-coréen ont volé environ 270 millions de dollars à Drift Protocol le 1er avril, convertissant une part importante en USDC et la reliant via...
Zcash Emerges as One of Crypto’s Biggest Winners This Week
Zcash spent most of 2025 being ignored, but this week it demanded attention. ZEC surged 62% in five trading days, briefly touching $390 before pulling back to consolidate around $371....
Will Quantum Computing Destroy Bitcoin? Here’s What ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok Think
Quantum computing just became Bitcoin’s most talked-about threat in 2026, after Google dropped a paper claiming a future quantum machine could crack a Bitcoin private key in just nine minutes. ...
Adam Back Rejects Renewed Claims That He Is Satoshi
Adam Back has publicly pushed back against renewed claims that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, responding to fresh speculation sparked by a recent investigation into Bitcoin’s origins. In a CNBC interview...
WLFI Hits New Low as World Liberty Defends Dolomite Loans
World Liberty Financial’s governance token fell to a new low on Friday after the Trump-backed crypto project said it was preparing a proposal to unlock WLFI for early holders. The...
Circle’s $5,000 Bug Bounty Cap Sparks Backlash as Arc Testnet Goes Public
Circle is facing criticism after setting a maximum reward of $5,000 for critical vulnerabilities in its bug bounty program tied to Arc, a public layer-1 blockchain. The payout cap drew...
Failed U.S.–Iran Talks Could Reignite War and Hit Global Markets
The U.S.–Iran talks in Islamabad are shaping up as the most important diplomatic test since the ceasefire began. The current truce is temporary, indirect, and highly fragile. It is due...
US CPI Surges to 3.3% as Energy Spikes and Iran Risks Hit Crypto
The US Consumer Price Index (US CPI) data for March 2026 shows inflation reaccelerating to 3.3% year over year (YoY) after a 0.9% month-over-month (MoM) rise, with energy prices surging...
TRON Approves Proposal 106 as TRX Holds Near $0.318
TRON has approved Proposal 106, pushing the network a step closer to Ethereum-level virtual machine compatibility. The proposal changes how the SELFDESTRUCT opcode works on TRON and aligns the TRON...
ZachXBT Calls Out Circle for USDC Compliance Failures in North Korea
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has heavily criticized Circle, accusing the stablecoin issuer of allowing over $240 million in funds to reach North Korea through several hacks. In a tweet, ZachXBT pointed...
