Trump promised US aid to stabilize Lebanon and opposed Iranian tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. The Iran operations announcement by April 21 market is at 9% YES, down from 33% a week ago. Trump’s backing of Lebanon and his position on the Strait of Hormuz moved several related markets. The Iran operations announcement market
Liquid Capital’s Li Hua Yi says there’s “no reason to take profits” after the Strait of Hormuz reopens, citing S&P highs, MicroStrategy’s BTC buys and altcoin rotation. Summary Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua told followers there is “currently no reason to take profits” after the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, arguing peace is now
Keir Starmer announced that more than a dozen countries are prepared to join a NATO-led mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz. The market for UK warships entering by April 30 sits at 6% YES, down from 12% a week ago. The UK warships through Hormuz market hasn’t moved much, with odds flat at 6%.
In Solana news today, DoubleZero Foundation launched Edge, a public beta platform that delivers raw Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public internet to cut average delivery times by 6 milliseconds — the same data distribution standard that traditional exchanges have used for decades. Summary Edge launched with
Iran now requires ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz to obtain approval from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), tying the requirement to a deal involving the unfreezing of Iranian funds. The Strait of Hormuz Ship Transit April market is expected to shift toward YES on this news, suggesting a moderate move toward de-escalation. Market
One unilateral freeze by Circle could trigger a domino effect across DEXs, bridges, oracles, and even wallets. The bad press facing stablecoin issuer Circle, following the $280 million exploit on the Solana trading protocol Drift, has gone up a notch after a California-based legal group filed a class action lawsuit against it, alleging it
Bitcoin price prediction turned aggressively bullish early Friday as CoinDesk reported that perpetual funding rates dropped to their most negative level since 2023 on a seven-day moving average, with ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria targeting $125,000 within 30 to 60 days if the market’s heavily short positioning is forced to unwind. Summary BTC was trading near
Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz is open, with oil tankers back in action. The probability of Trump lifting the US blockade by May 31 sits at 90% YES. The Strait’s reopening has pushed up the odds of Trump announcing the end of the blockade. The May 31 market at 90% YES reflects expectations
There has been a pattern repeating in the last few weeks: ceasefire report, price jump, skepticism, stall, fresh optimism, repeat. US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire push between Israel and Lebanon, combined with signs of possible US-Iran diplomacy, has become the clearest market-moving story of April. According to Santiment, crypto traders have been treating every
Bitcoin price prediction turns cautious as BTC failed to sustain its third breakout attempt above $76,000, repeatedly touching the level only to reverse, while 46 consecutive days of negative funding rates on Binance have created the most compressed short positioning since the FTX crash bottom of late 2022. Summary BTC briefly cleared $76,000 before reversing