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According to Axios, Iranian officials doubt that the U.S. will launch a military offensive before the current ceasefire expires on Tuesday night. While negotiations continue between the parties, uncertainty and mutual distrust on the ground are noteworthy. However, according to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, US President Donald Trump painted an optimistic picture regarding negotiations with Iran in a brief meeting today. Trump stated, “The framework for the agreement is complete. I think we have a very high chance of finalizing it.” Related News Justin Sun Makes an Unusual Offer to the Hacker Involved in the $290 Million Hack However, a…

South Korea is still a major market for altcoins, supporting a small selection of assets with resilient liquidity. Despite the lack of a clear altcoin market, some assets remain appealing to South Korean investors. South Korea is the exception to the general outflow from altcoin markets. Recent research shows South Korean exchanges carry around 30% of global crypto trading volumes. According to Kaiko’s research, 85% of that activity is linked to altcoins, while $BTC and $ETH carry a much smaller weight. Korea accounts for 30% of global crypto trading volume, with altcoins representing 85% of this activity, Bitcoin just 9%,…

World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the system as “full-stack proof of human” infrastructure aimed at consumers, enterprises and AI agents. The overhaul, announced at an event in San Francisco, comes as concerns mount across the tech industry over bots, deepfakes and AI agents impersonating humans online, a trend World is explicitly targeting with a broader push into authentication, payments and internet services. Altman’s other major project is OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT and tools using the large language model AI platform. World’s…

In a significant display of institutional confidence, Nasdaq-listed Inchains Group has strategically committed 8,040 Ethereum ($ETH) to the network’s proof-of-stake security mechanism. The move, valued at approximately $19 million, represents a major validation milestone for the world’s second-largest blockchain. Consequently, this action underscores a growing trend of traditional finance entities directly participating in crypto-economic systems. The staking allocation splits between two prominent service providers: 1,000 $ETH with FalconX and 7,040 $ETH with Goldshell Stake. This decision, announced on March 21, 2025, from the company’s strategic headquarters, signals a deepening integration between public markets and decentralized protocols. Inchains Group’s Major Ethereum…

As readers of this newsletter may be aware, Congress has spent the past few months debating market structure legislation, but crypto policy discussions encompass so many more issues than just the one: taxes, decentralized finance regulations, the midterm election, states and so much more. CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference next month is going to examine each of these issues in depth. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. This newsletter has noted in the past how significant policy changes around digital assets have become.…

Kalshi launched a new Commodities Hub on Tuesday, expanding its event contracts platform deeper into macro markets as volatility across oil, metals, and agriculture drives demand for faster ways to hedge and speculate. The new section broadens Kalshi’s commodities lineup beyond existing contracts tied to WTI crude, Brent crude, gold, and silver, adding markets linked to natural gas, coffee, copper, sugar, corn, soybeans, wheat, nickel, diesel, and lithium. The company said the hub is meant to give users a simpler alternative to futures by letting them trade binary style event contracts on price direction and threshold outcomes. Kalshi is pitching…

Pharos Network, the Layer-1 blockchain focused on delivering institutional-grade assets, has been strengthened by the addition of $USDC. The asset has become the network’s core stablecoin and is poised to become the backbone of the app economy now taking shape on Pharos. The integration of $USDC into blockchain networks adds credibility and – just as importantly – liquidity. Both of which will prove invaluable in Pharos’ quest to establish itself as a leading network for real finance or “RealFi.” Founded by former Ant Group leadership, Pharos is characterized by its high throughput of up to 30,000 TPS – but speed…

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Chicago-based crypto exchange Bitnomial has launched monthly futures contracts tied to Injective, marking the first US-regulated derivatives product for the Web3 financial ecosystem’s native token. According to Wednesday’s announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the contracts settle in $INJ ($INJ) with monthly expiries, allowing traders to gain price exposure without holding the underlying asset, and can be margined in crypto or US dollars through Bitnomial’s clearinghouse. The listing also starts a six-month track record that could support a spot exchange-traded fund under US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) listing rules. In July, Canary Capital filed for a staked $INJ ETF, with Cboe…

Circle’s new $USDC Bridge aims to turn cross‑chain transfers into a near‑invisible backend plumbing layer for on‑chain dollars, replacing fragmented bridges with a single bank‑style ledger experience operated end‑to‑end by Circle itself. Circle has rolled out a native $USDC Bridge that lets users burn $USDC on a source chain and mint it natively on a destination chain, with all routing and gas management handled by Circle. In its materials on the Cross‑Chain Transfer Protocol, Circle says the system is designed to “enable $USDC to flow natively 1:1 between blockchains—unifying liquidity and simplifying user experience,” explicitly eliminating third‑party bridge liquidity pools…