Iran will charge ships $1 per barrel in crypto to cross the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week US ceasefire.Tankers must disclose cargo by email, then get only seconds to pay in bitcoin before passage is cleared.The move comes as oil prices whipsaw below $100 amid a fragile truce over a chokepoint that once carried about 20% of global supply.

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added $150 million of ETH last week, boosting its $10.3 billion stash.

A trio of accounts on Polymarket made more than $600,000 on U.S./Iran ceasefire markets, drawing attention as potential insiders.

Coinbase announced that it has received an AFSL license from Australian authorities.With the license, Coinbase plans to offer crypto and equity perpetuals in the region, and later futures and options trading.

xPrime, Stretch by Spreads and xStream emerged as winners of the inaugural xStocks Hackathon on the French Riviera, selected from 60 builders over a 48‑hour build sprint.xstocks-market-open.Their projects showcase how tokenized equities can evolve from simple price trackers into prime brokerage, structured products and strategy layers built natively on-chain.With xStocks already processing more than $25 billion in cumulative volume and supporting over 70 tokenized equities, the hackathon signals how on-chain capital markets may reshape trading, leverage and access to stocks globally.

The decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app has been used by protestors in countries including Nepal, Madagascar and Iran.

Edward Felten said Ethereum L2s need responsive pricing to scale, as Arbitrum’s new model tests an alternative to EIP-1559-style fee swings.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a rule as part of the new law, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins, or GENIUS.The rulemaking is part of a broader regulatory push as federal agencies work toward a January 2027 compliance deadline under the GENIUS Act.

Anxieties over the quantum threat to Bitcoin have been growing, but Bernstein backs Back in saying there’s no cause for alarm.

With a sponsor fee of 0.14%, Morgan Stanley launches the lowest-cost spot Bitcoin ETF on the market, undercutting BlackRock and others.Morgan Stanley has “the largest network of financial advisors, 16,000 advisors managing $6.2 trillion,” according to an analyst.

New evidence from Argentina's federal probe into LIBRA complicates Milei's claim he had no ties to the meme coin.

Cardano price jumps about 4–5% intraday, outpacing most large‑caps outside Bitcoin and Ethereum.Perps volume climbs while open interest lags, pointing to short‑term churn rather than committed longs.ADA trades as high‑beta L1 DeFi infrastructure, echoing broader liquidity‑driven flows across majors.