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A Hyperliquid whale increased its Brent crude short to approximately $24 million as oil markets reopened sharply lower following renewed diplomatic activity between the United States and Iran. Wallet 0xebe126adabe1a8f08d3ce53b45e7cc994ca14070 held the short through Hyperliquid’s xyz:BRENTOIL perpetual market, with Hyperdash tracking about $1.7 million in unrealized profit after Monday’s decline. The position was not a newly opened nine-figure oil trade, as several social media posts claimed. Onchain Lens identified the wallet’s Brent short at roughly $17.1 million on July 23,…

More than $3.84 billion in blockchain-verified flows connected CoinEx with sanctioned Iranian entities over more than seven years, placing the Seychelles-based exchange inside a fresh sanctions-compliance dispute around Iran’s crypto economy. TRM Labs identified activity across more than 60 Iranian platforms, with about $2.7 billion moving between CoinEx and Nobitex, Iran’s largest domestic cryptocurrency exchange. The same analysis placed Nobitex’s CoinEx activity at roughly $1 million per day on average since 2018 and described CoinEx as Nobitex’s largest external counterparty…

President Donald Trump’s decision to call off planned U.S. strikes against Iran triggered a sharp relief move across global markets, as traders reacted to signs that one of the year’s biggest geopolitical overhangs could be easing. Trump said the final points of an initial peace deal had been approved and that details of a signing ceremony would be announced shortly. The outline under discussion includes a ceasefire extension, a path toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz and renewed negotiations over…

U.S. stocks suffered a trillion-dollar-scale selloff Wednesday as hotter inflation, rising oil prices and renewed U.S.-Iran war fears pushed investors out of high-growth trades. The S&P 500 fell 1.62% to 7,266.99, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.98% to 25,169.50, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 953.33 points, or 1.87%, to close below 50,000 at 49,918.78. The size of the move puts the day’s equity loss above $1 trillion across the broader U.S. market. The S&P 500 covers around 80% of…

The Nasdaq 100 extended losses to 3.79% on Tuesday, falling 1,114.08 points to 28,300.18 as geopolitical pressure hit an already weak technology session. The index had traded as high as 29,805.30 earlier in the day before sliding to an intraday low of 28,196.90. The reversal wiped out the early bounce and pushed the tech-heavy benchmark close to a 4% daily drop. The selloff intensified after President Donald Trump said Iran had shot down a U.S. Army Apache helicopter while it…

Nasdaq 100 futures surged more than 1.5% on Monday as markets reacted to a rapid shift in Middle East risk, with Iran halting its latest military operations against Israel and President Donald Trump saying both sides were moving toward an immediate ceasefire. The rally marked a sharp change from earlier risk-off trading, when renewed Iran-Israel strikes pushed oil higher and added pressure to global equities. Tech futures led the rebound as traders moved back into growth stocks, chip names and…

An Iran-linked maritime service tied to the Strait of Hormuz is now presenting Bitcoin and Lightning as payment options for ships seeking insurance, transit coordination, security support and operational services in one of the world’s most sensitive energy chokepoints. The platform, Hormuz Safe, describes itself as an Iranian digital insurance and maritime services authority based in Bandar Abbas. Its public site lists services including marine assurance, traffic control, maritime security, emergency response and transit tracking across the Strait of Hormuz…

The crypto market turned lower on June 1 as Bitcoin slipped toward $71,000 and traders reacted to a fresh wave of geopolitical risk tied to Iran, U.S. negotiations and the Strait of Hormuz. The total crypto market cap was around $2.51 trillion, down 2.19% over 24 hours, while daily trading volume stood near $93.3 billion. Bitcoin dominance remained high near 56.9%, showing that altcoins are still struggling to build broad momentum even when isolated winners keep breaking out. Bitcoin traded…

Iran’s negotiating team is stopping message exchanges with the United States through mediators and is threatening to “completely” block the Strait of Hormuz, turning a fragile diplomatic track into a fresh shock for energy, shipping and risk markets. The escalation follows renewed Israeli military action in Lebanon, which Tehran is treating as part of a wider ceasefire violation. Iranian officials have tied any return to negotiations to an immediate halt in Israeli operations in Gaza and Lebanon, along with a…