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Riot Platforms ha venduto 3.778 Bitcoin nel Q1 2026, incassando 289,5 milioni di dollari - un volume che supera di 2,6 volte la sua produzione di 1.473 BTC per lo stesso periodo.
L'azienda ha chiuso il Q1 con 15.680 BTC nei suoi libri, in calo del 18% rispetto ai 18.005 coin che deteneva alla chiusura del 2025. Quella differenza tra ciò che Riot ha estratto e ciò che ha venduto è il numero che richiede spiegazione.
La piattaforma di intelligenza blockchain Arkham ha segnalato un'uscita separata di 500 BTC da un portafoglio attribuito a Riot giovedì, suggerendo che la vendita non si è fermata alla chiusura del Q1.

Bitcoin Price is trading at $68,500, as Trump’s April 7 Iran deadline arrives and the crypto market refuses to flinch.
The White House has held its ‘no extension’ posture, demanding Iran open the Strait of Hormuz under threat of strikes on civilian infrastructure, and markets are not pricing in catastrophe.
The S&P 500 is mirroring the same wait-and-see tension, with BTC-SPX correlation tightening into a binary: geopolitical escalation triggers a correlated dump, or Trump blinks and both assets rip higher.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged $471 million in inflows over the past 24 hours – the strongest single-day figure in 30 days – suggesting institutions are not running for the exits.
On-chain data from CryptoQuant shows significant exchange outflows in the window before the deadline, consistent with whale accumulation rather than distribution. The market is not calling this a crisis. It is calling a bluff.
The mechanism here is straightforward: a US strike on Iranian infrastructure triggers an oil supply shock, energy inflation re-accelerates, the Fed’s rate-cut timeline extends, and risk assets – Bitcoin and equities both – reprice lower.
That’s the dump scenario, and it’s not subtle. The S&P 500 would absorb the inflation signal as a tightening catalyst; Bitcoin, still running elevated BTC-SPX correlation, would follow equities into a risk-off unwind.
The de-escalation path runs the opposite direction. If Trump blinks – grants an extension, accepts back-channel terms, or downgrades the threat – oil pulls back, rate-cut expectations firm up, and the path of least resistance for both BTC and SPX turns higher.
Geopolitical risk premium drains out of energy hedges and back into growth and risk assets. Bitcoin, already holding $69,000 under maximum headline pressure, would have room to accelerate toward $72,000-$75,000.
Iran’s stated counter-threat, ramping up attacks on Persian Gulf energy sites if struck – introduces tail risk that neither equities nor crypto are fully pricing.
That asymmetry is worth holding in mind. The market’s current read is ‘contained.’ History doesn’t always agree with that read in the first 48 hours of an escalation.
Bitcoin at $69,140 is sitting directly at the level that has defined the cycle’s contested zone since late 2025. Immediate support rests at $66,500 – the 50-day moving average – and a clean break below that level opens the $64,000-$65,000 range, where the 200-day MA currently sits.
That $66,500 level is load-bearing. Lose it on a geopolitical shock and the technical structure deteriorates fast.
On the upside, $72,000 is the first meaningful resistance – the ceiling from the March consolidation range. A sustained hold above $69,500 through the deadline resolution sets up a test of that level. Above $72,000, the next target is $75,000, which analysts have flagged as the make-or-break level for the broader April macro setup.
RSI is running at approximately 52 – not overbought, not oversold. The setup reads like a coiled compression, not a topping pattern.
Bull case activates on a confirmed hold above $69,500 post-deadline with ETF inflows sustaining above $300 million daily – target $75,000 within five to seven sessions.
Bear case activates on a geopolitical escalation event that breaks $66,500 on volume – in that scenario, $64,000 becomes the first support that actually matters. Until one of those conditions materializes, the $66,500 level is the only number traders need to watch.
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Bitcoin is consolidating just below $70,000 with one scheduled event this week capable of breaking the pattern in either direction: the March CPI print dropping April 10 at 8:30 AM ET. The binary is clean, if U.S. inflation data comes in soft enough to shift Federal Reserve language toward cuts, BTC $75K becomes an immediate technical target; if core CPI stays sticky above 0.3% month-over-month, the “higher for longer” scenario reasserts itself, and the path of least resistance points back toward $60,000–$62,000.
The Cleveland Fed’s nowcast – built on late-March data – projects a 0.84% monthly headline surge driven by gasoline prices up 26.2% year-over-year and diesel up 50.4%. That reading, if confirmed, would mark a sharp acceleration from February’s 0.27% headline and would effectively freeze any Federal Reserve pivot conversation through at least mid-summer. Macro crypto trading desks are already pricing two radically different worlds into options flow. Thursday’s print decides which one we’re in.
Bitcoin is currently rangebound between $65,000 and $71,000, a compression zone that has held for several weeks and is coiling into what chart structure suggests is a decision point. The $73,700 level above is the immediate overhead resistance; above that is the $75,000 psychological ceiling, which has acted as a load-bearing level since BTC’s last failed breakout attempt.
A weekly close above $75,000 on CPI-driven volume would be the first structural confirmation that the bull case is intact.
RSI on the daily is sitting near 53 – neutral, not oversold, which means there’s no technical floor being built from momentum exhaustion alone. The 200-day EMA is converging with the $67,500 support zone, making that level load-bearing in the near term. A daily close below $67,500 opens the door to $62,000, where significant order book depth and prior accumulation structure sit. MVRV ratio remains below 1.5, suggesting the market hasn’t reached the euphoria zone – but that also means on-chain buying pressure isn’t yet dominant enough to generate self-sustaining momentum.
The bull case requires a CPI-triggered risk-on move through $71,000, then a reclaim of $73,700 on sustained volume, with $75,000 as the confirming close. The bear case activates on a hot print: a rejection at $71,000 that cascades back through the 200-day EMA and targets the $60,000–$62,000 whale accumulation zone. For traders already holding, the downside scenario below $66,000 deserves serious risk modeling before Thursday. The single most important level: $71,000. Hold it post-print and the bull case lives. Lose it and $62,000 becomes the next anchor.
The Bitcoin CPI relationship isn’t incidental – it’s mechanical. CPI drives Fed rate expectations, rate expectations drive the dollar and treasury yields, and dollar strength directly compresses institutional appetite for risk assets, including BTC. February’s CPI landed at 2.4% year-over-year with core holding at 2.5% annually for the second consecutive month, driven by shelter costs rising 0.2%. That stickiness kept “higher for longer” as the dominant Fed posture heading into April’s data cycle.
The threshold that matters for a Federal Reserve pivot signal is a core monthly reading at or below 0.2% – anything above 0.3% entrenches current policy and delays the first cut. CME FedWatch currently prices fewer than two cuts for 2025, a dramatic repricing from the four-cut consensus that opened the year. Energy is the wild card: the Cleveland Fed’s nowcast is being driven almost entirely by gasoline and diesel spikes, and the Fed has historically looked through volatile energy components when assessing underlying inflation trends. If headline runs hot but core stays controlled, traders may interpret that as a conditional green light.
March payrolls added 178,000 jobs, with unemployment holding at 4.3% – a labor market that doesn’t scream imminent recession and therefore gives the Fed cover to hold. The April 10 U.S. inflation data release won’t just move Bitcoin on the day; it will recalibrate the entire rate-cut timeline that institutional crypto positioning is built on
Spot Bitcoin ETF inflows from BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC have shown direct sensitivity to CPI beats and misses – a hot print tightens that inflow tap immediately.
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I love PC building because I love customization. It’s one of the big reasons to build your own desktop, along with upgradeability and cost savings… though that latter point is out the window right now. Anyway, Corsair is leaning into the custom angle with its latest online “builder” tool, this time for the ubiquitous Frame 4000D ATX case.
It’s a smart move. The 4000D is a fine case, but it’s essentially just a box—no crazy curves, no over-the-top elements. Corsair has seemingly been modifying the design for years, as exemplified by the side bracket for that display you can add to an otherwise mundane enclosure. But I’m getting ahead of myself
If you’ve played around with other online customization tools—like Corsair’s own K65 Plus keyboard builder or Framework’s laptops—you know what to expect here. It starts with the bare frame, either black or white. Then you get a lot more variety in the front panel, which comes in a dozen options. You get classy wood (already out of stock!), flat or slightly frosted glass, or an RGB-bedecked airflow option.
The motherboard tray gets only five choices: basic white or black, a slightly upgraded “rapid route” punchhole version of each (which doesn’t seem like a back-to-front design, just a little more stylish… for something that sits under your motherboard? Okay), or “Elite Meteorite Aluminum.” That’s an $80 upgrade, which only has anodization as a reason for the extra price. Boo.
The next bit is my favorite practical choice: the PSU cover. You get a standard full-length barrier between the lower portion of the case interior and the motherboard area, in black or white. But for $15 you can upgrade to a “compact” shroud, a little cubby for the power supply that leaves a shelf free towards the front. I get the feeling that’ll be a popular option for those who want upgraded cooling… or those who just want to stick a Gundam in that spot to be extra. Either way it’s neat, though the compact shroud might interfere with some side panel options.
You get a couple of choices for front I/O, again, reminding me of the Framework Desktop. For $20 to $25, you can get three USB-C ports instead of a 2/1 split, and which one you want will depend on what gadgets you plug in on a regular basis.
The side panel is where I think a lot of the crunchy customizers will pay attention. You get glass options, with one covering just the motherboard (the PSU area gets a metal airflow shroud) and the other being the full side of the case. You can go with classic full steel if you want the stealth look, in black or white. And for something more deluxe, mounting brackets for side air intakes and Corsair’s LCD add-on are available.
The final section is just extra hardware. This is where you add on the Xeneon Edge touchscreen, or a trio of color-matched fans, plus a “QuickTurn Screw Pack.” It’s worth noting that these additional hardware options don’t come at a discount—they’re exactly the same prices you’d pay for the components separately. Since even my fairly basic 4000D build came in at over $200, that’s discouraging.
I should also note that all the upgrades and extras in this builder come as separate pieces to install on a bog-standard 4000D frame, even the ones that are crucial like the motherboard tray or front I/O. You aren’t saving any build time with this tool—in fact, you’re probably adding some.
Overall, I like the options on display here, though I’m not in love with the price. It’s very cool that it looks like all of these Frame pieces are also available as separate purchases on Corsair’s store, so you could start with a basic 4000D and upgrade as you go when you want to change things up (or when your budget allows).
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A $248, le Sony WH-1000XM5 sono un acquisto allettante per chiunque desideri la migliore cancellazione del rumore della categoria senza pagare il prezzo di vendita al dettaglio completo.
Una delle cose che amo di più al mondo è ascoltare musica. Lo faccio mentre lavoro, cammino, mi alleno, leggo, cucino… Quando vuoi soffocare il mondo, lo fai con qualcosa come le cuffie Sony WH-1000XM5, e attualmente sono in vendita a $248 su Amazon (rispetto al loro prezzo originale di $400).
Questi auricolari sono ampiamente considerati tra i migliori nella loro categoria. I nostri amici di TechAdvisor li hanno recensiti e hanno dato loro un punteggio pulito di 5 stelle, impressionati dalla loro qualità costruttiva, cancellazione del rumore e suono raffinato. Hanno ottenuto il premio Editors’ Choice.

Il primo ministro israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu afferma di aver ordinato ai funzionari di iniziare negoziati diretti con il Libano “il prima possibile”, citando richieste da Beirut mentre le tensioni rimangono elevate nonostante un cessate il fuoco regionale più ampio.
Il Libano ha dichiarato un giorno di lutto giovedì dopo che gli attacchi israeliani hanno ucciso almeno 200 persone e ferito più di 1.000 in un solo giorno. Il presidente iraniano Masoud Pezeshkian ha affermato che gli attacchi violavano il cessate il fuoco tra Stati Uniti e Iran e ha avvertito che minacciavano di compromettere i negoziati, aggiungendo che Teheran non avrebbe abbandonato il Libano

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has expressed support for the United States’ decision to suspend strikes on Iran, but said the two-week truce will not extend to Israel’s ongoing military operations in Lebanon.
In a statement on X on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel backed US President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure “Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat to America, Israel, Iran’s Arab neighbors and the world”.
Netanyahu’s statement came after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the US, Iran and their allies “have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere”.
But the two-week ceasefire “does not include Lebanon”, he said.
The Lebanese army on Wednesday warned people against returning to the country’s south.
Lebanon’s National News Agency, meanwhile, said the Israeli military continued to carry out attacks on southern parts of the country. Israeli forces bombed the southern town of Srifa in Tyre region, and also issued an evacuation warning for a building near the town.
Lebanon was drawn into the US and Israel’s war on Iran on March 2 after Tehran-aligned Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel.
In light of regional developments and reports circulating about a ceasefire, [the army] urges citizens to wait before returning to southern villages and towns and to avoid approaching areas where Israeli occupation forces have advanced… since they may be exposing themselves to the ongoing Israeli attacks,” the army said in a statement.
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That truce was agreed after more than a year of cross-border fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters following Israel’s launch of its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023
Hezbollah said the attacks were in retaliation for Israel’s killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war, on February 28, as well as Israel’s near-daily violations of a ceasefire it agreed to in Lebanon in November 2024.
According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 1,500 people since March 2 and displaced more than 1.2 million. The Israeli military has also launched an invasion of southern Lebanon and said it aims to seize more territory for what it calls a buffer zone
There has been no immediate comment from Hezbollah or the Lebanese government on Netanyahu’s announcement
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, said Hezbollah’s entry into the US-Israel war on Iran expanded the conflict and bogged Israel down on multiple fronts
Hezbollah’s calculation is that it has more political leverage when it joins Iran in possible negotiations, because Hezbollah has been criticising the Lebanese government for failing to get Israel to agree to the terms of the last ceasefire back in 2024,” she said
In addition to the near-daily attacks, Israel had refused to withdraw from southern Lebanon or release detainees or allow displaced people to return to their homes, Khodr noted
The question now, she said, is whether the Israel-Hezbollah front will be discussed in the upcoming negotiations between Iran and the US
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam “himself says he believes that Iran has been running the military campaign that Hezbollah has launched in southern Lebanon and that’s why the negotiations over the next two weeks will be critical and crucial for Lebanon,” Khodr said
“Because at the end of the day, Israel wants security guarantees. And that is something the Lebanese government, the Lebanese state cannot give,” she added
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Iran and the United States have both claimed victory in their conflict as they both accepted a two-week ceasefire just before US President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic deadline to obliterate Iranian “civilisation” if Tehran did not agree to a deal.
At least 2,076 people have died in US-Israel strikes on Iran that began on February 28, and thousands of others have been killed across the region. The war has also disrupted global energy supplies, stranding oil tankers and causing prices to shoot up in what’s being called the biggest shock to the industry in history.
Trump, in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, said the US would suspend bombing Iran after receiving a 10-point ceasefire proposal that he said was “workable”. The US president added that “almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to”.
also said it will allow ships to begin to move through the Strait of Hormuz, even as some in the country have angrily denounced their government’s bowing to pressure.
Both sides are expected to continue Pakistan-mediated talks in Islamabad from Friday.
But despite the formal bluster, both the US and Iran appear to have shifted from some of their earlier stated red lines to agree to Tuesday’s deal. Those sticking points could reemerge to complicate the upcoming talks, analysts say.
Here’s what we know about what they both wanted and what concessions have been made so far:
The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East…a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated,” Trump posted.
The US president did not immediately confirm if US negotiators would be in Islamabad.
For Trump, the big achievement is to have Iran agree to negotiate after his escalating threats,” Chris Featherstone, a political scientist at the University of York, told Al Jazeera.
“He is presenting this as a success, but he will need to achieve some form of concession from Iran to be able to present this as a success in the longer term,” he said
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran would also cease “defensive operations” if attacks on the country are halted, and that Iran’s armed forces would allow safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Many in Iran, however, have expressed anger and fault Tehran for responding to a ceasefire deal, as distrust for the US has soared in the country, say analysts.
The pessimism in Iran is probably more than in any other place because we’ve been attacked two times in the middle of negotiations,” Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, told Al Jazeera.
He was referring to the US’s bombing of Iran during last June’s 12-day war alongside Israel, and the US-Israeli strikes on February 28th. Both escalations came as negotiations were ongoing
As both sides are expected to begin what will likely be tough negotiations on Friday, analysts are speculating over what final concessions either side might be prepared to make and what issues will be non-starters.
At least one of Iran’s demands has been flagged as a no-go area for Washington: ending the US military presence in the Middle East.
The US has maintained a military presence in the region for more than 65 years. As many as 50,000 US troops are stationed across 19 sites in several countries, not including the thousands more troops called up amid the Iran war.
Iran has argued that those bases proved to be a liability for Gulf countries during the war, some analysts say, as they became targets of Tehran’s ire, as it lashed out in heavy retaliatory strikes.
Still, “these countries are all sovereign countries, they make their own decisions”, Izadi of the University of Tehran said.
“The experience our southern neighbours had with US bases was not good,” he noted. “But that particular concept [of the US leaving] is something that the independent governments in the Persian Gulf have to make for their own selves
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La vendita dei biglietti per le Olimpiadi di Los Angeles 2028 è stata aperta a livello globale dopo quello che gli organizzatori hanno definito una settimana di presale locale da record, sottolineando una forte domanda iniziale per un evento che deve fare affidamento pesantemente sui ricavi privati.
LA28 ha dichiarato di aver venduto più biglietti nella prima settimana rispetto a qualsiasi precedente Giochi Olimpici nella loro settimana di apertura, con ogni biglietto in quella fase iniziale destinato ai residenti delle aree di Los Angeles e Oklahoma City, nonostante alcune lamentele sui prezzi elevati, sulle commissioni e sulla disponibilità.

Il presidente della Confederazione Africana di Calcio (CAF) ha respinto le accuse di corruzione da parte del governo senegalese dopo la decisione shock dell'ente di privare il Senegal del titolo di AFCON e assegnarlo al Marocco.
“Se qualcuno vuole avviare un'azione legale denunciando che ci sia corruzione nella CAF, non solo accolgo favorevolmente questa idea, ma la incoraggio,” ha detto Patrice Motsepe, parlando in Marocco giovedì.
“Non c'è nulla da nascondere. Rispettiamo enormemente la sovranità giudiziaria e legale di ciascuna delle nostre 54 nazioni sul continente africano.

Le autorità cinesi del nuoto affermano di aver avviato un'indagine sul cyberbullismo della campionessa di tuffi Quan Hongchan, tre volte medaglia d'oro olimpica, e hanno riportato la questione alla polizia.
Attacchi online 'maligni' contro Quan sono in fase di indagine da parte della General Administration of Sport della Cina, ha affermato l'ente mercoledì.
Quan, che ha vinto la sua prima medaglia d'oro a Tokyo 2020 all'età di 14 anni e due medaglie d'oro nelle successive gare a Parigi 2024, ha rilasciato diverse interviste in cui ha parlato dei commenti tossici online sul suo peso e dell'immensa pressione che ha ‌sentito di seguire una dieta anche se già mangiava molto poco.

Il trasporto marittimo rimane fermo nello Stretto di Hormuz nonostante l'accordo di cessate il fuoco tra gli Stati Uniti e l'Iran, smorzando le speranze di una risoluzione a una delle peggiori interruzioni energetiche globali della storia
Solo un pugno di navi ha transitato lo stretto critico da quando Washington e Teheran martedì hanno annunciato una pausa di due settimane nei combattimenti, secondo i dati di tracciamento delle navi
Cinque navi hanno attraversato lo stretto mercoledì, in calo rispetto alle 11 del giorno precedente, e sette sono transitate giovedì, secondo i dati della società di intelligence di mercato Kpler

Islamabad, Pakistan – I marciapiedi vengono dipinti, una già formidabile presenza di sicurezza viene potenziata, e un'aria di attesa — e ansia — sta avvolgendo la capitale del Pakistan mentre si prepara ad ospitare incontri che il mondo osserverà questo fine settimana.
Esattamente sei settimane dopo che gli Stati Uniti e Israele hanno lanciato attacchi coordinati contro l'Iran che hanno ucciso il Leader Supremo Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scatenando una guerra che ha ucciso migliaia di persone in diversi paesi, ha chiuso il passaggio petrolifero più critico del mondo e ha fatto volare i prezzi dell'energia, Islamabad ospiterà sabato colloqui tra alti funzionari statunitensi e iraniani.

Lo sviluppo è avvenuto quando le autorità della capitale pakistana mercoledì hanno dichiarato due giorni di vacanze locali con breve preavviso, senza fornire una motivazione
Nel frattempo, negli Stati Uniti, l'opposizione alla guerra sta crescendo. Il senatore Cory Booker ha dichiarato che i Democratici cercheranno di forzare un voto ai sensi della Risoluzione sui Poteri di Guerra per limitare quello che ha descritto come un'azione militare non autorizzata
L'escalation ha portato a avvertimenti da Teheran che continuare i negoziati in tali condizioni potrebbe essere “irragionevole”
“Il popolo americano non vuole e non ha autorizzato [questa guerra], ma continua a pagare il prezzo

Il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump ha avvertito che le forze statunitensi rimarranno dispiegate attorno all'Iran e ha minacciato un'azione militare schiacciante se Teheran non soddisferà le richieste di Washington, seminando dubbi su un fragile cessate il fuoco.
Scrivendo sui social media tardi mercoledì, Trump ha detto che le truppe statunitensi, gli aerei e le forze navali rimarranno in posizione fino a quando ciò che ha descritto come il “VERO ACCORDO” non sarà pienamente attuato
Tutti i navi, aerei e personale militare statunitensi ... rimarranno in posizione in, e attorno, all'Iran, fino a quando il VERO ACCORDO raggiunto non sarà pienamente rispettato,” ha scritto Trump su Truth Social.

The Prime Minister’s Office has directed authorities to accelerate efforts to finalise currency swap agreements with the European Union, Russia and Iran as part of a broader plan to reduce reliance on the US dollar and strengthen regional trade links, The Express Tribune reported.
The proposed arrangements are expected to follow the model of the Pakistan-China currency swap, under which Islamabad has accessed a $4.5 billion facility.
Officials said similar agreements with Russia and Iran could facilitate trade and ease pressure on foreign exchange reserves. They said the initiative has been included in the Ministry of Finance’s strategic reform agenda, with the PM’s Delivery Unit assigned to monitor progress. The government has also sought updates on negotiations involving ASEAN countries, with the aim of expanding trade settlement options.
The move comes as Pakistan manages external financing pressures, including repayments of $4.8 billion this month. The government has already cleared a $1.3 billion Eurobond, with authorities reiterating commitment to meeting external obligations on schedule.
Separately, the Prime Minister’s Office has tasked the finance ministry, in consultation with the State Bank, to prepare a plan to reduce the policy rate below 10%, while ensuring stability in currency markets. Authorities have also been asked to strengthen oversight to curb exchange rate manipulation, hoarding and smuggling of foreign currency.
The government is also working to expand the use of alternative payment systems, including the Asian Clearing Union, and has been directed to launch awareness campaigns for businesses on settlement mechanisms using local currencies and RMB-based trade with China.
In parallel, Pakistan has committed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease currency controls, including removing targets for commercial banks to surrender dollars to the central bank and relaxing restrictions on outward foreign currency movement, subject to adequate reserves.
The reform framework also includes targets to manage public debt and improve macroeconomic indicators. The government aims to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to 61.5% by 2028, lower external debt to 17.9% of GDP and bring interest payments down to 4.9% of GDP.
Officials said efforts are also under way to keep the current account deficit below $3 billion and move towards a surplus, while maintaining GDP growth in the range of 4–5% in the near term and raising it to 6–8% by 2029, with the goal of expanding the economy to $500 billion.
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Lo Stretto di Hormuz, che collega il Golfo al Golfo di Oman, ha attirato l'attenzione globale da quando Israele e gli Stati Uniti hanno iniziato la loro guerra contro l'Iran a febbraio.
Fino all'inizio dei combattimenti, il canale stretto, attraverso il quale il 20 percento delle forniture mondiali di petrolio e gas naturale liquefatto (GNL) vengono spedite dai produttori del Golfo in tempo di pace, è rimasto gratuito e sicuro per le imbarcazioni. Lo stretto è condiviso da Iran e Oman e non rientra nella categoria delle acque internazionali.
Dopo che gli Stati Uniti e Israele hanno iniziato gli attacchi, l'Iran ha risposto attaccando le navi mercantili "nemiche" nello stretto, bloccando di fatto il passaggio per tutti, lasciando le spedizioni bloccate e creando una delle peggiori crisi di distribuzione energetica globale mai registrate.

The Iranian regime has been increasingly using cryptocurrency over the last few years to facilitate cross border oil trading, according to data from Chainalysis
The formalization of a system of shipping toll payments made using bitcoin and USD-pegged stablecoins appears to be an audacious move. However, the Iranian regime, and more specifically the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been increasingly using cryptocurrency over the last few years to facilitate cross border commercial trade, especially with Iranian oil sales, according to data from blockchain analytics specialist Chainalysis.
It's highly unsurprising that this type of trade would be happening via cryptocurrency as well,” said Andrew Fierman, head of national security intelligence at Chainalysis, referring to the toll paid by ships allowed to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea channel where about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas usually passes.
A snapshot of sanctioned activity from over the last year and a half shows a growing and complex network using crypto wallets. Back in December of 2024, a U.S.-sanctioned, IRGC-affiliated financier linked to the Iran-backed Houthi regime facilitated Iranian oil sales to Yemen involving cryptocurrency addresses. This came to over $178 million in transfers in a single year.
Then, in April of 2025, a broader network of Houthi financiers were purchasing weapons and commodities from Russia. Their cryptocurrency addresses were included in a sanctions designation accounting for nearly a billion dollars in activity – again in just about the course of the year.
Interestingly, the Houthis, an Iran-backed armed group that controls much of northern Yemen, have now raised the prospect of imposing a second chokepoint on the world’s oil and gas shipping trade at the Bab-al-Mandeb channel that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.In any case, the picture is one of IRGC-affiliated networks using crypto at commercial scale to facilitate cross border trade, according to Fierman of Chianalysis. It’s a system that’s much more complex and established than simply a handful of wallets being used in perpetuity, he said.
They have a network of cryptocurrency wallets that the regime is using to facilitate this cross border activity. To accept these payments in crypto would make it easier than potentially utilizing the traditional banking system and there’s enough liquidity out there that they don't even need to really use cryptocurrency exchanges either,” Fierman said in an interview.
The way the IRGC is broadly adopting cryptocurrency, specifically stablecoins, as a payment mechanism for cross border trade, is really the inverse of the situation with North Korea, Fierman pointed out, where the main goal is stealing billions of dollars in crypto and laundering it.
The Iranian regime has been comprehensively sanctioned since 1979, including individual sanctions on almost every bank, so its inability to access U.S. dollar-pegged assets makes it a challenge for them to trade internationally.
The reality is that most counterparts don't want to trade in Rials or in Tomans, especially considering the hyperinflation that is regularly happening in the country as well. So this ability to get a US dollar-pegged asset creates a mechanism that allows them to trade globally with anyone who's willing to trade with them, in an alternative mechanism that doesn't rely on the traditional banking system,” Fierman said.
In Iran, the official currency is the Rial (IRR), but people universally use Tomans on a daily basis in shops, for instance; one Toman is equivalent to 10 Rials.
Tom Keatinge, founding director of the Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at UK defence think tank RUSI, agreed that USD-backed stablecoins have become an increasingly important payment mechanism for the Iranian regime that avoids sanctions and western banking controls
Whilst the use of stablecoins might open users up to Western regulatory intervention, evidence suggests that this risk is low,” Keatinge said in an email
Lee Reiners, a lecturing fellow at Duke University’s Financial Economics Center, suggested a novel way the Iranian regime could further its sanctions-skirting stablecoin goals
“If Iran was thinking strategically, it might take a cue from its neighbors across the Strait in the UAE and demand payment in USD1,” Reiners said, referring to the stablecoin launched by the Trump family-affiliated World Liberty Financial in March of 2025. “Then the President of the United States would have a financial incentive to lift sanctions and allow them to charge whatever tolls they want
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La confusione riguardo le proposte concorrenti degli Stati Uniti e dell'Iran per porre fine alla guerra sta approfondendo l'incertezza riguardo la fragile tregua di due settimane tra i nemici di lunga data, con funzionari che presentano a volte resoconti differenti su quanto è stato concordato.
Al centro della disputa c'è un piano iraniano in 10 punti, che è la base per i prossimi negoziati con gli Stati Uniti nella capitale pakistana, Islamabad, questo fine settimana. Il presidente Donald Trump ha definito il piano “realizzabile”, nonostante inizialmente avesse presentato all'Iran un piano in 15 punti che Teheran ha respinto come “massimalista.

I coloni israeliani hanno effettuato sette tentativi di contrabbandare sacrifici animali nel complesso della Moschea di Al-Aqsa durante il festival pasquale ebraico di quest'anno, il numero più alto di tali incidenti documentati dall'inizio dell'occupazione israeliana nel 1967.
Il governo di Gerusalemme dell'Autorità Palestinese ha dichiarato domenica che le provocazioni si sono verificate mentre le autorità israeliane mantenevano il complesso di 144 dunam (36 acri), insieme alla Chiesa del Santo Sepolcro, sigillato per 40 giorni consecutivi.
Tuttavia, la Moschea di Al-Aqsa ha riaperto giovedì mattina presto, mentre i fedeli si affollavano nel sito sacro di Gerusalemme dopo che le autorità avevano sollevato le restrizioni durate settimane. Le forze israeliane avevano citato uno “stato di emergenza” e misure di “sicurezza” legate alla guerra tra Stati Uniti e Israele contro l'Iran per la chiusura prolungata.