🇮🇷 IRAN IS QUIETLY TURNING TO CRYPTO AS ITS BANKING SYSTEM GETS CUT OFF.
This is no longer just about people holding Bitcoin.
Iran is reportedly becoming increasingly comfortable using $USDT and $BTC for actual cross-border business.
Fresh Financial Times reporting says Iran’s central bank has eased some foreign-exchange restrictions, with businesses increasingly using crypto to move money across borders and bring overseas funds back into the country.
And the scale is hard to ignore.
Around $10 BILLION in crypto activity flowed through Iran in 2025, according to TRM Labs.
That includes incoming and outgoing flows, showing how deeply crypto has entered the country’s financial system.
Iran’s largest crypto exchange alone reportedly handled more than 50% of the country’s digital-asset inflows in 2025, according to the U.S. Treasury.
And USDT is particularly important here.
Why?
Because it gives businesses access to a dollar-linked asset without relying entirely on traditional banking rails.
That becomes extremely valuable when access to global banks is restricted.
But there’s a catch.
USDT isn't fully censorship-resistant.
Once a wallet is identified and sanctioned, the issuer can freeze the funds.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in Iran-linked USDT have already been frozen or identified by authorities.
So a very different financial system is emerging:
Banks get restricted.
Crypto becomes the alternative rail.
Stablecoins provide dollar exposure.
Blockchains move the money.
And regulators try to follow it.
That’s the bigger story.
Crypto isn't just being used as an investment asset in countries with restricted banking access.
It's increasingly becoming part of the financial infrastructure itself.👀
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington is already talking about shrinking its footprint in the Middle East when the Iran war ends...
Military and intelligence officials say the conversation is quiet and unofficial: fewer people, fewer bases, maybe some jobs done from home, fly-ins for missions.
18 U.S. troops are dead. Iran has hit American sites all across the Gulf, and some of those facilities may simply never be rebuilt.
There are still about 50,000 troops in the region, plus carriers and destroyers.
Trump doesn't have the patience for endless deployments, and America has promised to leave this region for 25 years...
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Oil is already above $100 if you buy the actual barrels instead of the headline...
-Brent trades near $97, but Dubai cash hit $105.10 Monday and Oman futures $104.54, the grades Asian refiners actually pay for
-Spot premiums for November cargoes run $19 to $20 above quotes, back at April's crisis levels
-Middle East crude shipments are at about 11 million barrels a day against 18 million before the war, per Argus
-No supertanker has visibly left Hormuz since September 2, per Kpler, with flows below 2 million barrels a day since fighting resumed
-Saudi exports from Yanbu on the Red Sea fell to a six-month low of 1.4 million barrels a day in August under the Houthi blockade, down from 3.9 million
-Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal more than doubled its volumes as Gulf oil rerouted around both chokepoints
-China cut seaborne crude imports from over 11 million barrels a day in February to 7 million and holds an estimated 1.17 billion barrels in reserve
-Global demand destruction stands at 3.5 million barrels a day, with China more than half of it
-Morgan Stanley now forecasts Brent averaging $100 in the fourth quarter
The benchmark is calm because China stopped buying and the world is burning through stockpiles, which is a cushion made of empty warehouses and idle factories.
Argus economist David Fyfe says the diesel market is screaming shortage, and American diesel already set a record.
BULLISH: Crypto stocks are RALLYING as Bitcoin breaks above $81,000, erasing $BTC price losses from the past five days.
The push higher was partly fueled by the U.S. Treasury’s plan to expand long-term bond buybacks, injecting fresh liquidity into markets, weakening the dollar and boosting risk assets.
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In trading, the right way is simple: when price is moving in your favor, let the profit run. When the trade is clearly going wrong, cut the loss and protect your capital.
But most people do the opposite. They sell as soon as they see a little profit, but when the trade starts dumping, they keep holding and hoping it will come back.
This is because of emotions. We are scared to lose profit, but at the same time we don’t want to accept a loss.
To become better in trading, you have to fight this habit. Cut your losses, control your risk, and give your winning trades more time to grow.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine is reshuffling its commanders as Russia gets dangerously close to Sloviansk...
Russian troops are now just 7–10 km from the city in one area, close enough for artillery to already reach it.
People are being urged to leave, amidst daily attacks.
Ukraine is putting some of its best-known commanders in charge of key parts of the Donetsk front, including Andrii Biletskyi and Azov commander Denys Prokopenko.
The goal is pretty simple: stop Russia’s advance, clean up how the front is being managed, and get troops and resources where they’re needed most.
And there’s more pressure coming...
Ukrainian intelligence believes Russia could mobilize another 300,000 troops in 2026, and potentially another 300,000 next year, although Putin hasn’t made that call yet.
One Ukrainian general says this could become “the main battle of this year and the next.”
🇺🇲🇻🇪 Trump is talking about using Venezuelan oil to re-fill America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves...
“One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves… The ‘topping out’ process will begin very shortly and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States.”
Trump may call the oil a “gift,” but it’s really an arrangement for a 100-year commercial lease and joint venture negotiated between the U.S. govt., industry operators, and Venezuela's interim administration.
The deal is less a present and more a strategic transaction following the U.S. military capture of Nicolás Maduro in January.
But Venezuela has an opportunity to benefit as well, since the deal is anticipated to draw in nearly $100 billion in private investment into the country.
Either way, the White House is hoping the move will reduce buyers’ burden at the pump, a major sore point for the GOP with midterms fast approaching...
$PROM is forming a very good setup for a short position.
$PROM chart is similar to $BTR.
$0.8 - $0.85 is a key zone. It already got rejected from $0.8 and currently it’s consolidating. If it got rejected again from this zone, then I will open a heavy short position in it.
⚠️ ALERT: Trump-linked account appears to have been HACKED to promote a “Trump Digital Gold” rug pull.
A post promoting $GOLD appeared on ‘realtrumpcoins1,’ an account followed by the official Trump account and linked as a merchandise partner to the Trump Organization.
$Gold then EXPLODED to nearly $60M in market cap before the post was deleted, sending the token from $60M to just $600K in a single candle, flagged by lookonchain
The team made $1Million+ in fees and sold its entire 82.5% token bundle, locking in another $317K in profit.