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Today’s top news:
Crypto majors are flat, led by HYPE; BTC at $76.8k HYPE +5% as the SEC will allow 3rd party platforms to tokenize stocks Strategy announces $2B buy from last week; STRC falls under $99 Citi warns that Bitcoin faces bigger quantum risk than ETH Echo Protocol exploited on Monad, regained control over keys overnight The SEC Just Reversed Course on Tokenized StocksThis is a significant reversal from the agency’s January 28 guidance, which drew a sharp line between issuer-approved tokenization and third-party products, warning that the latter typically provided only synthetic exposure rather than true equity ownership.
If formalized, the shift would greenlight an entirely different model for tokenized equities. Under the January framework, only companies that formally integrated blockchain into their official shareholder records, like DTCC’s planned July launch, could offer legitimate tokenized stock exposure. Third-party platforms like Kraken’s xStocks, Robinhood’s Arbitrum-based tokenized equities, and OKX’s private company perps were operating in a legal gray zone. The new posture, per Bloomberg Law, would allow those platforms to proceed without waiting for issuer participation.
That’s a massive unlock, and the stakes here are enormous. The tokenized securities market has grown 200% year-over-year to $30 billion, with DTCC, BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Franklin Templeton all filing or launching tokenized products in the past month alone.
Hyperliquid arguably stands to benefit the most, at least in the near term, and the market responded by sending it to $48 and a new local high.
Now STRC is trading below par and Saylor is likely out of big ammo for a few weeks. So Bitcoin is going to need to look elsewhere for a bid…
The platform bypasses SWIFT and traditional banking entirely: coverage activates upon Bitcoin confirmation and claims are processed onchain. Iranian officials project over $10 billion in annual revenue if the service captures meaningful market share for the 20% of global seaborne crude that still transits the strait.
Iran is building infrastructure that institutionalizes Bitcoin as its primary financial workaround, giving it a revenue model that doesn’t depend on Hormuz reopening. For every ship captain who buys a Hormuz Safe policy, there’s a Bitcoin transaction flowing to the Iranian state—and potential OFAC liability for the buyer regardless of whether the premium reaches its stated destination. It seems the risk may outweigh the reward, at least for now.
The anonymous accounts were all created days before America’s initial bombardment of Iran in late February. Across more than 80 bets, they won 98% of the time, including accurately predicting the timing of the first US strikes, the ousting of Supreme Leader Khamenei, and the announcement of a ceasefire.
Bubblemaps CEO Nicolas Vaiman commented: “This might be the most insane pattern we have found on Polymarket so far. Luck alone cannot explain those numbers.”
The accounts lost money on only a handful of occasions, always small amounts, in the hundreds of dollars, which Bubblemaps contends were lost intentionally to throw investigators off their scent. Winnings were ultimately routed to Bybit, Binance, and HTX, though the accounts cannot be publicly traced to specific individuals.
Inside trading on prediction markets was initially touted as a feature, not a bug. That theory is being tested, in prime time.
