Independent Crypto Payments Analysis

Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US grabbed roughly $1B of Iranian crypto. Only $344M is documented, and the path into the Bitcoin reserve is far from clear.

Coinbase is offering new One Card users $50 in Bitcoin for spending $100 in the first 30 days, on top of up to 4% back in BTC. Here is who qualifies.

Cointelegraph flags that ETH has never closed three straight red quarters. With ether at $2,024 on May 31, Q2 2026 is the test. Here's the setup.

Gravity Bridge lost about $5.4M on May 30 in a suspected signing-key compromise. Stolen USDC, ETH, and USDT moved through Binance and ChangeNow.

Vietnam's Finance Ministry has proposed allowing SMEs to pledge digital and virtual assets as loan collateral, a step toward formalizing crypto in credit markets.

An ETF mirroring Republican lawmaker disclosures shows IBIT at 4% of holdings and Intel at 7.72%, tracking the same assets President Trump has promoted.

An attacker drained $7.3M in BNB from more than 1,400 DxSale liquidity lockers dating to 2021, using a privileged fee reset and a backdated lock expiry.

The PBOC is pushing e-CNY into fiscal spending, lottery draws and Belt and Road payments, the opposite of the US anti-CBDC, pro-stablecoin path.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT reports $12.6M of Zama cUSDC frozen after a Circle blacklisting, extending the USDC freeze debate to confidential wrapped tokens.

Over $1.5B in long positions have been liquidated since May 25, Cointelegraph reports, even as BTC holds near $73,400 and spot prices stay flat. The damage is leverage, not selling.