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The White House warned staff against improperly using confidential information to place bets in futures markets after suspicious oil trades ahead of President Donald Trump’s March 23 Iran announcement drew scrutiny, according to Reuters. Reuters reported on Thursday that the White House sent the internal email on March 24, a day after Trump ordered a

French officials are pushing for tighter oversight of crypto from two directions, as a Bank of France official called for stricter limits on non-euro stablecoins under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), and lawmakers in Paris advanced a separate reporting requirement for some self-custody holdings. Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank

New BTC price analysis predicted that the bear market would bottom out later in the year, before beginning a "two-year accumulation phase." Bitcoin (BTC) should find a floor near $55,000 in the second half of 2026, a new prediction says. Key points: Bitcoin’s MVRV Z-score metric still needs to match old bear-market bottoms to signal

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has launched IPO Prime, a proxy offering tied to the pre-initial public offering (IPO) phase of Elon Musk’s aerospace manufacturing and space transportation company, SpaceX. Bitget said Friday that IPO Prime will start with preSPAX, a Republic-issued token designed to give retail users economic exposure tied to SpaceX’s post-IPO performance. The exchange

Key takeaways Impersonation scams can be low-tech yet highly effective, using fake websites that closely mimic trusted cryptocurrency platforms to deceive users. The CoinDCX case shows how a 7.16 million rupee fraud complaint escalated into legal action before it was identified as an impersonation case. The fake domain coindcx.pro, not the real platform, was used

APIA, Samoa, April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, reported that crude oil perpetual futures volume on its TradFi platform surged over 300% week-over-week, as the US-Iran ceasefire announcement triggered the largest single-day oil price swing since the 1991 Gulf War. Phemex TradFi offers WTI (XTI) and Brent crude oil (XBR) perpetual futures

Add ZyCrypto News On Google Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has voiced support for U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s call urging Congress to move quickly on the much-awaited Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, signaling a change of view after the leading American crypto exchange had earlier declined to back previous versions of the bill due to

Worldcoin will cut WLD’s daily unlock rate by about 43% from July 24, halving community emissions and trimming team and investor unlocks as selling pressure concerns mount. Summary Worldcoin says 4.9b WLD (49% of supply) is unlocked, with around 3.3b in circulation; the daily unlock will fall from ~5.1m WLD to ~2.9m in July. Community

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining firm BitFuFu reported today that it produced 214 BTC in March while selling 80 BTC from its treasury. Total holdings have dropped to 1,794 BTC, valued at approximately $131 million at current market prices. BitFuFu first disclosed its Bitcoin holdings in late 2024 at 1,664 BTC, which later rose to a peak

Securitize is set to issue a Currenc Group equity as a digital token on a public blockchain, with the shares expected to launch on both Ethereum and Solana. The move puts Solana back in the spotlight for a use case tied to real-world assets, not just price moves. The setup is meant to combine Ethereum’s