**JUST IN:** 🇺🇸 Average US gas prices rise to $3 for the first time since November 2025. @WatcherGuru

**JUST IN:** 🇮🇷 Iran officially closes the Strait of Hormuz and warns any ship passing through will be set on fire. Roughly 20% of the world's oil supply passes through this strategic waterway. @WatcherGuru

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JUST IN: Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' buys 3,015 Bitcoin worth $199 million.

JUST IN: Bitcoin reclaims $69,000.

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 MetaMask and Mastercard officially launch crypto card in the United States. @WatcherGuru

🇮🇷 Iran's Basij forces attacked a student anti-regime protest at Ferdowsi University. The Basij are the regime’s plainclothes shock troops, a volunteer militia under the IRGC, generally functioning as the Supreme Leader’s personal goon squad.

💬 Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy stated on the Crypto Playbook podcast that the industry has moved away from its cypherpunk roots toward a narrative of "rising numbers." He argued that stablecoins reinforce the dominance of the US dollar rather than building a decentralized parallel system, and that crypto should return to its cypherpunk ethos instead of becoming fully integrated into Wall Street. Despite Ethereum's value-added layup (VAL) of over $120 billion, he added that actual adoption of decentralized applications remains limited.

🔎 Google searches for "bitcoin is dead" are not yet at their highest historical level.

🚨 Nasdaq is recruiting a digital asset tokenization product manager.

🇺🇸🏦 Hester Peirce proposes that stablecoins be treated almost like cash by banks, with a regulatory haircut of 2%. This measure could facilitate their adoption by Wall Street.

🟥 This is currently the 3rd worst first quarter for ETH of all time.

😱 Fear levels are now rivaling those of the FTX collapse and the COVID crash.

👀 The official Discord of OpenClaw, an AI assistant, expressly prohibits any mention of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin.

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Mami vibe. Enjoy weekend

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says $175,000,000,000 in tariff refunds will be fought in court "for the next 5 years."

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump imposes 10% global tariff on all countries and says all tariffs will remain in place, despite Supreme Court ruling.