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Veteran strategist Ed Yardeni raised his probability of a stock market crash this year as oil tops $100, the dollar posts its best week in a year, and the Iran conflict expands to Saudi Arabia.
Tokenized crude oil futures saw their largest liquidation event on crypto venues as the conflict expanded to Saudi Arabia and Gulf oil production collapsed.
Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston noted that it is 30 times cheaper to mine Bitcoin on ASICs than on GPUs in space on a kilowatt-hour basis.
Every major global exchange has restored full FLOW services, said the Foundation on Monday.
NYDIG’s Greg Cipolaro says that Bitcoin and tech stocks aren’t converging and are likely just reacting to macroeconomic conditions rather than trading in tandem.
The proposal would give exchanges legal cover to temporarily freeze suspicious crypto while investigators move to secure warrants.
If the CLARITY Act fails to pass, Giancarlo said he expects Paul Atkins at the SEC and Mike Selig at the CFTC will likely write rules to create clarity for the industry.
Nikkei drops more than 6%, and Kospi slides about 8% as traders price supply disruption risk, while prediction markets show strong odds of $120 crude.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei has plunged 7% after Monday's market open, while South Korea's KOSPI has dropped 7.9%.
Despite a rise in crypto fundraising, Messari’s Eric Turner noted that no major crypto VCs have closed rounds except Dragonfly recently, stating that crypto “needs some fresh capital.”
Why did NYSE parent ICE choose to invest in and partner with crypto exchange OKX? What exactly is ICE trying to achieve here?
Whether Bitcoin’s resilience holds may depend less on battlefield developments than on how energy prices respond in the days ahead.
