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Bitcoin nears $66K as Trump says US has peace deal with Iran

<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS10cnVtcC1zcGVhay1pcmFuLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Bitcoin nears $66K as Trump says US has peace deal with Iran" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>US President Donald Trump says the US and Iran have a deal for a “toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz,” sending Bitcoin to a two-week high.</p>

CFTC sues New Mexico over prediction market jurisdiction

New Mexico is the eighth state sued by the CFTC over prediction markets, as Gary Gensler doubted the regulators' claim of authority over sports event contracts.

Aztec Connect’s abandoned smart contract exploited for $2.1M

<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS1oYWNrZXJzLXRhcmdldC1lbnRlcnByaXNlLWJsb2NrY2hhaW5zLTEuanBn.jpg" alt="Aztec Connect’s abandoned smart contract exploited for $2.1M" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>The Aztec Connect platform was deprecated in March 2023, but the immutable smart contract still held over $2 million in crypto assets.</p>

Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in 11th largest downward adjustment

Bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone its second-largest downward difficulty adjustment this year, following February’s 11% shift.

Stock futures jump, oil prices fall as Trump says U.S. has reached peace deal with Iran

Oil prices fell and U.S. stock-index futures jumped Sunday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. has agreed to a peace deal with Iran, apparently ending months of hostilities that shut the Strait of Hormuz and sent the global economy into an oil shock.

Will the real Kevin Warsh please stand up? Ahead of his first Fed meeting, economists honestly don’t know what to expect.

Perhaps the only thing that can be said with certainty about Kevin Warsh’s press conference following his first meeting as Federal Reserve chair this week is that he will have a captive audience.

StanChart looks for 3 signs of BTC bottom, including Strategy’s Monday news

Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update.

Ethereum can quantum-proof accounts for just 7 cents, says Ethereum's Kohaku lead

The SPHINCS- proposal aims to reduce the cost of post-quantum signature verification on Ethereum while the network works toward a longer-term solution.

SpaceX shows investors still want moonshots. The Fed may test that theory this week.

Higher interest rates could make the AI growth story that’s been powering the bull market harder to justify.

Humanity Protocol’s $36M hack tied to suspected North Korean hackers: Quantstamp

A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.

Bitcoin nears $65K as Trump says Hormuz will 'open to all' in Sunday Iran peace deal

<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy90cnVtcC1iaXRjb2luLWdyZWVuLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Bitcoin nears $65K as Trump says Hormuz will 'open to all' in Sunday Iran peace deal" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Bitcoin stayed near local highs on a new US-Iran peace deal pledge as analysis saw conditions favoring a sustained BTC price rebound.</p>

Trump says Iran peace deal to be signed Sunday, contradicting Tehran

<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy90cnVtcDEuanBn.jpg" alt="Trump says Iran peace deal to be signed Sunday, contradicting Tehran" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe said a peace deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, would likely send liquidity back to risk-on assets such as cryptocurrencies.</p>

Amazon warning triggered US crackdown on Anthropic AI models: Reports

<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9iZXdhcmUtb2YtZmFibGUtMy5qcGc=.jpg" alt="Amazon warning triggered US crackdown on Anthropic AI models: Reports" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other tech firms prompted the Trump administration to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on Friday.</p>

Worried about a lower Social Security benefit? How to calculate the exact impact it will have on your retirement.

If benefits go down 22% in 2032 as predicted by the latest Trustees report, you need to know what that means for you.

Social Security benefits and costs are perfectly reasonable — no case exists for massive cuts

It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives.

The true national debt just hit $1 million per U.S. household

The effective U.S. national debt just crashed through $100 trillion for the first time in history, and now stands at an extraordinary 400% of annual gross domestic product — but almost nobody seems to care.

Anthropic's Mythos AI finds no more 'serious' bugs in Zcash: Wilcox

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further "serious bugs" in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.

Bitcoin sales are necessary for Strategy's digital credit business, Saylor says

Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale appeared to clash with Saylor's "never sell" mantra, but he says the move reflects how the company's digital credit business works.

SpaceX employees now have enough wealth on paper to buy every home in this Texas city

2025 set an all-time high for first-time buyers who used financial assets to buy a home or fund a down payment, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The rich keep spending money on ‘unapologetic luxury’ — and it’s raising prices on everyday goods for everyone

The wealthy are unfazed by inflation, and that could complicate the Fed’s ability to fight it.