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The Pentagon has sent the White House a request for $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war, a figure that would equal nearly 3 million Bitcoin at current market prices.At Bitcoin’s current price of about $68,600, the request converts to 2,915,451 BTC.That framing does not mean the government is financing the war with crypto or treating Bitcoin as a payment rail for military spending. Instead, it offers a way to translate a large federal war bill into a unit investors can compare against some of the world’s most closely watched stores of value.Seen that way, the request moves…

Crypto opened the doors to retail now Wall Street is feasting on itRetail investors were sold a story about market access that was impossible to argue with: trading would be cheaper, information would be easier to find, public blockchains would pull back the curtain, and the old hierarchy that once defined finance would lose some of its grip.What that story left out, and what has become harder to ignore across both stocks and crypto, is that broader access didn’t do much to stop the system from organizing itself around retail behavior. It’s been studying, routing, pricing, and turning it into…

Bitcoin drops after Trump’s Truth Social threat turns ceasefire language into renewed escalationOvernight, Bitcoin dramatically fell 2.8% after President Donald Trump issued a Truth Social post threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz was not reopened within 48 hours.The drop ran from roughly $70,400 to $68,200 before a partial rebound toward $69,500. By press time, Bitcoin had softened again to around $68,700. The sequence points to a discrete trigger. It was a fast repricing tied to a live geopolitical development that widened the escalation path just as markets had begun to price a less aggressive trajectory.Bitcoin…

One economic word could well define 2026: stagflation.It is an ugly word that describes a regime where prices keep rising while growth loses force, labor weakens, and policymakers run short of easy options.That combination changes the texture of daily life fast.Households feel it in food, fuel, insurance, rent, transport, utilities, subscriptions, and credit. Businesses feel it in margins, demand, inventories, and financing costs. Markets feel it in rate uncertainty and slower earnings growth.In a stagflation environment, we could expect Bitcoin to initially trade choppy with risk assets, then potentially outperform as markets price policy constraint, falling real yields, and stronger…

The SEC and CFTC just gave crypto its clearest and most straightforward regulatory guidance in years. Most crypto assets will no longer be treated as presumptive securities, and the agencies drew a sharper line between open crypto markets and tokenized versions of traditional financial products.Under normal conditions, that kind of clarity should have been a major bullish catalyst, but it wasn’t.The market’s lack of response showed that traders no longer see regulatory goodwill on its own as enough to rerate the sector.What crypto wants now is something the agencies can’t deliver by themselves: durable legal certainty from Congress.For years, the…

Wall Street has spent months debating when the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. Now, traders are considering if the next move could be a hike.Two days past the Fed’s Mar. 18 decision to hold its target range at 3.50%-3.75%, markets moved in the opposite direction. Bloomberg-based pricing climbed above 60% odds of a hike by October, with roughly 15 basis points of tightening priced by then. CME FedWatch put year-end hike odds closer to 40%.The odds of a rate cut next month have fallen from 17% in February to 0% for April, while odds of a hike have risen…

The average Bitcoin retail investor who recently discovered crypto might never have considered a stablecoin that pays yield on an idle balance. That fight, buried inside Senate negotiations over the CLARITY Act, is about to matter to them anyway.Politico reported this week that senators and White House advisers have reached an agreement in principle on stablecoin-yield language, which was the main reason why the bill had stalled.The reported agreement moves CLARITY from frozen to potentially alive again, which connects directly to Bitcoin’s institutional demand story.A timeline graphic traces the CLARITY Act’s stall over stablecoin-yield language from January 2026 through this…

The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora.Stablecoins have become a meaningful settlement layer, lending markets continue to expand, and tokenized real-world assets keep growing. Visa said global stablecoin transaction volume rose from more than $3.5 trillion in 2023 to more than $5.5 trillion in 2024. That is not the profile of a niche experiment. It is the profile of infrastructure finding real demand.The problem is that DeFi still measures itself with a bootstrap metric.TVL is a misaligned scoreboardFor most of the last cycle, Total Value Locked became the default scoreboard. TVL was…

A proposal in Washington could alter one of the basic rhythms of US markets: how often public companies have to publish quarterly reports.The SEC is reportedly preparing a proposal that would make quarterly reporting optional, letting companies file financial updates twice a year instead of four times. Backers say the current system feeds short-term thinking and adds cost.Opponents warn that fewer required check-ins would leave investors with a foggier view of corporate reality and a much wider gap between insiders and everyone else.This comes as a huge surprise from the SEC, the agency most people associate with forcing companies to…

Crypto wallets used to mean one thing: self-custody. Users held their keys, owned their assets, and stayed off the radar of traditional finance.Phantom’s Mar. 17 no-action relief from the CFTC’s Market Participants Division rewrites that definition.The letter allows Phantom to serve as the consumer interface for regulated derivatives without registering as an introducing broker, provided registered futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, and designated contract markets handle the actual customer relationships, custody, and clearing.On Jan. 29, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig announced the agency would pursue “clear and unambiguous safe harbors for software developers” and explore onshoring perpetual derivatives.On Mar. 11, the…