<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/gym-up-bitcoin.jpg" alt="Bitcoin price eyes $66K as US stocks rise on Iran-strike pause" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Bitcoin copied US stocks as relief over end of US-Iran strikes spread to risk assets at the start of the US trading session.</p>
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Investors have been pivoting toward high-quality megacap stocks as more companies adopt artificial-intelligence tools.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-stablecoin-hong-kong.jpg" alt="Hong Kong crypto giant HashKey merges regional exchange into one" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Hong Kong’s HashKey will unify its crypto exchange branches, with users from its Hong Kong, Global, Singapore and Middle East regions using the same platform.</p>
Citigroup strategists suggest protecting from jitters over a potentially more hawkish Federal Reserve via small caps.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/us-inflation-1.jpg" alt="Rate path still divides investors: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Bitcoin traders prepared to navigate a slew of volatility catalysts as US inflation data and US-Iran war triggers keep risk-assets in an unpredictable state.</p>
West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude front-month contracts fell on Monday after the U.S. paused attacks on Iran.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-digitized-europe-the-shift-to-a-cashless-world2-1.jpg" alt="Binance disappears from Google Play in certain EU countries" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Binance’s Android app is unavailable on Google Play in some EU markets amid scrutiny over MiCA compliance.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-usdt-vs-usdc-whats-the-difference.png" alt="USDC issuer Circle to acquire nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>IBM’s blockchain portfolio includes more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide, with a particular focus in supply chain applications.</p>
Signum Advisors predicted a Trump administration policy pivot on Iran last week. Then hostilities were paused this weekend.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/michael-saylors-big-bet-institutional-investments-role-1.jpg" alt="Strategy sells MSTR shares, buys back $25M in STRC preferred stock" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Strategy raised $544.5 million through MSTR stock sales as it repurchased $25 million of STRC shares and expanded its US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion.</p>
Virginia and Maine are the latest states pushing for salary transparency.
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<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/crypto-regulation-paper-rule-office-mica-eu.jpg" alt="BNY Mellon unit joins MiCA register as ESMA adds 15 providers" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>BNY Mellon’s European subsidiary joined the MiCA register as ESMA added 15 CASPs, including banks and crypto platforms, in the third post-deadline update.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-anti-money-laundering-and-on-chain-analytics-for-digital-assets-a-deep-dive-1.jpg" alt="Brazilian police bust cocaine traffickers in crypto-linked transnational probe" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Brazilian police suspect the group of shipping around 6.5 metric tons of cocaine and laundering billions in Brazilian reals through crypto-enabled illicit money brokers.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/portraitbrian-armstrong1.jpg" alt="Coinbase CEO touts agentic finance as Base tops 100M AI payments" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says AI agents will expand crypto adoption, pointing to Base, USDC and x402 as key pieces of agentic finance.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/password-fraud-hacker-scam3-2.jpg" alt="Triple-A confirms treasury-wallet breach after losses reach $11.8M " class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>The stablecoin payments company said client funds were unaffected and that the financial impact would be absorbed through its treasury reserves.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-bancor-excludes-users-1.jpg" alt="BitMart withdrawals appear to slow following wind-down announcement" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Users reported withdrawal delays and freeze notices as wallets attributed to BitMart fell to about $69 million and its BMX token extended an 81.5% weekly decline.</p>