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President Donald Trump's announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline prices have become a political problem and energy has turned inflationary again.
The Brownsville project is being pitched as an industrial revival and consumer relief. Still, the sharper question is whether a refinery that won't produce fuel for years can address the inflationary...
South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story.
Enforcement against the country's second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and degrade one of crypto's most-watched regional pricing signals: the kimchi premium.
Compliance case hits market plumbing
The Korea Financial Intelligence Unit...
XRP’s price performance is stripping out fast-money participation while leaving behind a more durable class of holders.
According to CryptoSlate's data, XRP is trading at $1.37 as of press time, down 55% within the last six months.
This comes as data from CoinGlass shows XRP's open interest has fallen to about $2.40 billion from a July peak of $10.94 billion, a drop of roughly 78% that leaves...
Binance returns to Iran sanctions scrutiny after its $4.3 billion U.S. plea
The Justice Department is reportedly probing Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions, pulling the world’s largest crypto exchange back into a national security case less than three years after it pleaded guilty in the U.S. and agreed to a resolution worth more than $4.3 billion.
The clearest fact at the outset is the...
An Oil Scare Near Hormuz Showed How Fast Bitcoin Reverts to a Risk Trade
While Bitcoin has rebounded and held above $70,000 over the last 48 hours, the acute phase of the latest oil shock showed the market’s first instinct: sell crypto when inflation fear rises, and the path to easier money gets harder.
Still, why does the price of oil even matter for Bitcoin? Few Bitcoin miners use oil to power...
Kalshi's first move outside the United States is not London, not Singapore, not any of the financial centers that have spent years building crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks.
It is Brazil, through XP International and its brokerage arm, Clear, offering prediction markets to Brazilian investors as a “new asset class” anchored at launch to economic events such as inflation prints and interest...
The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners.
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data.
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies before moving under...
Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week.
Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charitable donations, and consumer spending habits from public view on transparent blockchains.
Days later, SDNY prosecutors filed a letter proposing to retry Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm in October...
Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving.
The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 days, already surpassing its full-year net purchases in 2021, 2022, or 2023.
Strategy (...
Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 Tuesday as crude oil staged a sharp reversal, easing near-term fears of accelerating inflation and giving digital asset markets room to recover.
According to CryptoSlate's data, the largest digital currency jumped over 5% in the last 24 hours, peaking at around $71,164 after slipping below $68,000 earlier in the session.
Brent crude fell more than 6% to around $...