Trump’s push for an extra $200 billion Iran war budget on top of record defense spending is forcing crypto markets to reprice geopolitical risk, debt, and the dollar in real time. Summary Coin Bureau says Trump is looking to Arab states to help fund an Iran war as the Pentagon lines up an extra $200B
USA₮, the dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and supported by Tether, is expanding to Celo, marking its first blockchain deployment beyond Ethereum. The move places the regulated token on a network that has become one of the most active rails for real-world stablecoin use. Tether introduced the token in January as a US-regulated
The company announced certain listings and delistings for popular altcoins. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange added a fresh batch of trading pairs to one of its specialized sections, giving users more opportunities. At the same time, it revealed that certain pairs will be removed from the platform. The Latest Amendments Binance listed APT/U, ENA/U,
Summary Former a16z crypto investor Sam Broner has co-founded The Better Money Company, raising $10M in seed funding to build a stablecoin clearinghouse. The round was led by a16z crypto with backing from BoxGroup, Sunflower Capital and angels including Circle co-founder Sean Neville and ex-Microsoft exec Charlie Songhurst.finance. Better Money plans to support GENIUS Act-compliant
Block is pushing its AI strategy further, with CEO Jack Dorsey and lead independent director Roelof Botha outlining a plan to rebuild the fintech company as a mini-AGI. In a new essay published Tuesday morning, Dorsey and Botha argue that AI should do more than improve worker productivity and instead replace traditional layers of coordination
A quantum attacker could potentially steal funds from a transaction while it is still waiting to be processed. Google’s quantum computing team has published a white paper detailing how a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could crack the private keys of Ethereum’s 1,000 wealthiest wallets in under 9 days, directly risking more than 20 million
Summary Bhutan’s government-linked wallets moved 325 BTC (about $25.19M) to a Galaxy Digital-linked address and 375 BTC (around $25.18M) to an unknown wallet. The roughly $50M in suspected sales follow a March selling spree in which Bhutan offloaded more than $84M in Bitcoin via exchanges and OTC desks. Druk Holding & Investments, Bhutan’s sovereign fund,
S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of S&P Global that tracks more than 125,000 benchmarks used across global investment markets, has joined forces with Kaiko, a digital assets data infrastructure firm, to bring the iBoxx US Treasuries Index to the Canton Network, making it the first major financial benchmark issued as a native blockchain asset.
The Ethereum Foundation just locked up another 22,517 ETH – worth approximately $46.2 million – bringing its total staking position to 24,623 ETH, or roughly $50 million, according to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence. That’s not a rounding error. It’s the Foundation’s largest single-day staking event ever. ETH is currently trading near $2,045, and this
Bitcoin is closing out Q1 2026 on a sour note. The largest crypto is trading around $66.4k after a quarter that saw shedding nearly half its value from the October 2025 peak near $125k. With macro and geopolitical uncertainty still weighing on risk assets and no major structural level reclaimed, BTC heads into Q2 without