Hyperliquid’s oil perpetual contracts hit an all-time high as crypto-native traders shifted into commodity-linked derivatives amid escalating Middle East conflict.
🚨 JUST IN:U.S. CRYPTO PERPS TO BE GREEN-LIT IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS 🇺🇸
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig says regulated perpetual crypto futures (perps) plan to be approved and live in the U.S. within the next month.
For years the huge perps market high-leverage, no-expiry trading on #BTC , #Ethereum and more has lived almost entirely offshore because of strict U.S. rules.
🚨 JUST IN :THE AI ECONOMY IS LEANING TOWARD $BTC A new analysis highlighted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute is starting to quantify something many suspected.
In controlled monetary experiments, AI agents consistently preferred Bitcoin as a store of value, while choosing stablecoins mainly for payments -- and largely rejected traditional fiat rails altogether.
That split is telling.
Researchers note autonomous agents are becoming real economic actors, already capable in some environments of creating wallets and moving value without direct human control. The key advantage is structural: Bitcoin and Lightning offer permissionless, global settlement that machine actors can access natively.
From a market structure lens, this matters because the demand surface may be expanding.
If AI systems increasingly need to pay for compute, data, APIs, and services, they require rails that don’t depend on human identity checks or banking hours. Traditional finance wasn’t built for machine-native commerce. Bitcoin was.
This isn’t a near-term price catalyst. But it is a directional signal.
For the first time, the potential user base for Bitcoin may be extending beyond humans -- and markets tend to underprice structural demand shifts early.
🚨 BREAKING:THE CRYPTO POLICY FIGHT IS GETTING LOUDER
Just after big banks pushed back on stablecoins, Trump posted this.
He says the GENIUS Act which creates the U.S. stablecoin framework and is being undermined by banks, and warned the CLARITY Act needs to pass quickly to finish building the broader crypto market structure. Crypto regulation in the U.S. is no longer just a policy discussion.
🚨 JUST IN :TOM LEE IS DOUBLING DOWN EVEN IN A “CRYPTO WINTER”
BitMine just made another aggressive move.
The firm purchased roughly 50,900+ #ETH , bringing its total holdings to about 4.47M $ETH roughly 3.7% of circulating supply.
That’s not a small treasury bet.
Tom Lee says the buying is deliberate and expects stocks and crypto to be up in March, arguing markets are likely in the late stages of bottoming despite war headlines. #USIranWarEscalation #StockMarketCrash #VitalikETHRoadmap $ZEC $BNB
Since 2000, the USD has lost ~53% of its purchasing power. $1 then now requires ~$1.89. Cumulative inflation: +88.88%. Nearly 20% of all USD were created in 2020 alone.
Bitcoin’s counterpoint: fixed 21M supply, rule-based issuance, decentralized. Since 2020: $BTC up ~1,200%.
Hyperliquid’s oil perpetual contracts hit an all-time high as crypto-native traders shifted into commodity-linked derivatives amid escalating Middle East conflict.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, says escalating U.S.- Iran tensions could trigger Federal Reserve monetary easing - ultimately sending Bitcoin and high-quality altcoins significantly higher.
His thesis: since 1985, major U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East have often been followed by rate cuts or liquidity expansion to help finance war-related costs. He points to the 1990 Gulf War, and the 2009 Afghanistan surge as examples of this pattern.