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Rising energy costs due to geopolitical tensions may fuel inflation, complicating future monetary policy and impacting global economic stability. The post Iran conflict drives US household energy costs up $450, impacting oil prices appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The post Polygon Marks 6 Years on Mainnet as Network Surpasses $2.5 Trillion in Value Moved appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways: Polygon has also celebrated its 6th anniversary since mainnet, logging over $2.5 trillion worth of transactions across the Polygon ecosystem. Each item is a real transaction made on Polygon, as started by the blockchain, it has created a fun and interactive experience. The milestone reflects Polygon’s increasing importance in the transfer of stablecoins and a day-to-day payments application. As Polygon celebrates its sixth birthday milestone, the platform is commemorating one of its biggest successes, consisting of over $2.5 trillion in total value transferred to-date from the establishment of Polygon on mainnet. Cake and candles 🎂 Happy six years of the Polygon Chain! pic.twitter.com/oJxNRsTXBa — Polygon | POL (@0xPolygon) May 30, 2026 The blockchain community marked the event with an interactive virtual world simulating real economic flow on
The shift to tokenized deposits could reshape financial stability, influencing global regulatory approaches and the future of digital currencies. The post Bank of England’s Greene predicts tokenized deposits will replace stablecoins appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Escalating U.S.-Iran tensions could disrupt global oil supply routes, heightening geopolitical risks and impacting international trade stability. The post US missile strike disables ship in Gulf of Oman amid Iran tensions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The post After Perps Approval, Stablecoins Still Anchor Risk appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Picture a trader rotating out of altcoins after a volatile week. They don’t retreat to fiat; they sit in USDC, waiting for the next perp entry. This is how risk is actually warehoused in crypto: in dollars that live on-chain. That habit just met a new regulatory inflection. The CFTC approved a bitcoin-referenced perpetual futures contract, and separately offered staff-level relief around posting customer-owned digital commodities and payment stablecoins as margin in certain foreign-futures setups. The headlines may look technical, but they touch the very pipes of crypto risk. So the question isn’t whether stablecoins matter after “perps approval.” It’s why they are still the instrument most desks trust to meter, move, and measure risk. The Big Picture: Why This Moment Matters Regulatory clarity in derivatives tends to ripple out into collateral, settlement, and market structure. On May 29,
The post New US inflation report leaves Bitcoin with a problem the Fed cannot solve yet appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Headline PCE inflation rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, its hottest pace in two years and nearly double the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal, while core PCE held at 3.3%, its highest reading since October 2023. The monthly numbers ran cooler, with core easing to 0.2% against the 0.3% economists had expected. Bitcoin saw that combination of numbers as a problem, sliding toward $73,300 in the hours after Thursday’s release and hovering near $73,000 through the weekend, down roughly 30% across the past year. The PCE inflation report brought enough monthly relief to keep the rate-cut rate going, and enough annual heat to keep liquidity scarce. What makes this report land harder than most is the timing, since it’s the first major inflation spike of Kevin Warsh’s tenure as Fed chair, a job he stepped into on May 22 after succeeding Jerome Powell. Warsh built his reputa
The post The US says it grabbed Iran’s crypto in a $1B seizure appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. reasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum that the US had seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, turning the Iran crypto seizure into an early test of Trump’s reserve framework Bessent added the authorities “just outright grabbed the wallets,” with CBS reporting he also described the assets as money stolen from the Iranian people. Yet Bessent disclosed neither the asset types nor the wallets involved, and that lack of information is exactly what determines whether any of this money ever reaches President Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Trump’s 2025 executive order created two separate buckets for government-held digital assets. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve holds BTC that has been finally forfeited through criminal or civil proceedings, or collected through civil penalties, and the order states that government BTC deposited into it
