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Nearly $1 Billion In Iranian Crypto Falls Into US Hands

Some Iranian crypto wallet owners may not even know yet that their money is gone. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent disclosed Friday that the US has quietly seized roughly $1 billion in digital assets tied to Iran, a figure that has nearly tripled from earlier estimates released just weeks ago. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn Operation Economic Fury The seizures are part of a campaign called Operation Economic Fury, launched in March 2025, which has gone after Iranian assets on multiple fronts — freezing bank accounts, confiscating properties wi

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Ethereum Flashes A Rare Signal As Open Interest Reaches Highest Level Since 2019

Ethereum is struggling to push above $2,000 as the market prepares for a decisive move that participants on both sides of the trade increasingly recognize as imminent. The price is compressing — and CryptoQuant data has identified a development in the derivatives market that explains why the current level feels like more than a routine resistance test. Related Reading: HYPE Whale Bets Grow Larger As Institutional-Linked Accumulation Reaches $170M On May 28, Binance recorded a 336,000 ETH increase in 30-day open interest while Ethereum traded near $1,990. That single-venue reading is the highes

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Coinbase To Bring Global Crypto Derivatives To US Institutions After CFTC Nod

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has now opened the path for Coinbase and other CFTC-registered exchanges to offer regulated access to global crypto derivatives markets. Related Reading: Bitcoin Tests Critical Support As Bearish Signals Point To $60,000 Retest Coinbase Offers Access To Global Crypto Derivatives On Friday, Coinbase announced that its subsidiary, Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM), has become the first US-regulated Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) to offer its domestic clients access to global crypto derivatives markets. Crypto derivatives account for roughly 80

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Bitcoin Magazine

CFTC Cracks Open U.S. Market for Bitcoin and Crypto Perpetual Futures

Bitcoin Magazine CFTC Cracks Open U.S. Market for Bitcoin and Crypto Perpetual Futures The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has greenlit the first U.S.-listed bitcoin perpetual futures and opened the door for Coinbase to route American traders into global crypto derivatives markets. This post CFTC Cracks Open U.S. Market for Bitcoin and Crypto Perpetual Futures first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

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Bitcoin miners’ real prize is power as AI reshapes mining

Bitcoin miners spent years racing to secure cheap electricity, and that electricity has since become more valuable than the Bitcoin mining business built on it. That inversion drives Fidelity's May 2026 assessment that AI hosting could give miners a second revenue stream while flattening Bitcoin's hash rate as major operators redirect energy infrastructure away from […] The post Bitcoin miners’ real prize is power as AI reshapes mining appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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XRP Flashes Historic Rally Signal, Fueling $12 Price Speculation

A 65,900% price surge. That’s what followed the last time XRP touched the trendline it’s sitting on right now — back in 2017, when the token was trading at less than a penny. Related Reading: Bitcoin Eyes $90K As Bears Get Burned Again Amid $30B Open Interest Surge Pattern Repeats At Key Support Market analyst Mikkybull flagged the development this week, pointing to a multi-year ascending parallel channel that has shaped XRP’s price movement since its early days. The channel has three trendlines running in parallel — lower, middle, and upper. XRP has now dropped to the lower trendline for only

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Bitcoin Magazine

What does Bitcoin “Power Projection” mean to the U.S. Military? 

Bitcoin Magazine What does Bitcoin “Power Projection” mean to the U.S. Military?  “INDOPACOM Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo told Congress the U.S. military is operating a live Bitcoin node and views the protocol as a ‘valuable computer science tool’ for power projection, directly echoing Jason Lowery’s influential thesis.” This post What does Bitcoin “Power Projection” mean to the U.S. Military?  first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt.

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