Crypto Breaking News

Bitcoin rebounded to $68,200 in early Sunday trading after US-Israeli air strikes on Iran and confirmation of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei steadied risk sentiment.

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token is attempting a steady recovery, but derivatives data shows $28.9 million in short liquidations clustered above $35, leaving traders exposed to a potential volatility spike.

Bitcoin is trading at a steep discount to gold and global money supply trends, potentially signalling a reversal higher, according to Jan3 chief executive Samson Mow.

Vitalik Buterin has shifted the Ethereum scaling debate back to the protocol’s base layer, arguing that deep architectural bottlenecks in the state tree and virtual machine now pose greater long-term constraints than Layer 2 rollups.

Polymarket recorded $478 million in single-day notional trading volume as geopolitical tensions escalated following coordinated US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Capital Markets Authority ordered a two-day suspension of trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Financial Market for March 2–3 after Iranian strikes targeted major regional ports and oil tankers.

X has lifted its ban on cryptocurrency and gambling paid promotions, removing them from its prohibited industries list and reopening the platform to monetised crypto content.

Crypto exchange Backpack is preparing a token-to-equity conversion programme that it claims navigates US securities laws by attaching equity rights to a VIP scheme rather than directly to its forthcoming token.

Former Mt. Gox chief executive Mark Karpelès has proposed a rare hard fork of Bitcoin to recover 79,956 BTC lost in the exchange’s 2011 breach and return them to creditors.

US lawmakers have called on the Treasury Department and the Department of Justice to investigate Binance over allegations that $1.7 billion in crypto transfers were linked to Iran-connected entities.

Rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are raising the risk of an oil supply shock that could tighten global liquidity and trigger a fresh Bitcoin selloff.

Starknet has unveiled strkBTC, a wrapped bitcoin asset designed to introduce shielded transactions to bitcoin holders seeking greater privacy.