Crypto Momentum Builds, FWA’s Big Weekend, EPIK and ZCash Ironwood with Mert

Crypto majors are very green as oil fell 7% on Iran peace progress; BTC +1% at $65k; ETH +4% at $1,960; SOL +2% at $76.5; HYPE +2% at $59.90. PUMP (+18%), ZRO (+10%) and LIT (+10%) led top movers. Oil -7% at $83; Gold +1% at $4,100. Stock futures are very green with Oil dropping; DOW +1.1%, Nasdaq +1.5%. Crypto exchange BitMart is shutting down after nine years, with its BMX token crashing 58% on the news, the second exchange closure in a week after BitMEX. Strategy overhauled its Bitcoin metrics to show net exposure after senior claims, pegging its “Net Reserve” at $36.6 billion once $22.3 billion of preferred stock and convertible debt is stripped out, and permanently anchoring the equity-issuance threshold at 1.0x mNAV. A $5 billion cluster has formed in Bitcoin options, which analysts read as a bullish setup heading into the Fed week. A US regulator warned prediction markets against cutting corners on event contracts. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, plans crypto trading infrastructure by December. Institutional trading platform LMAX is exploring a sale or IPO, working with Morgan Stanley and KBW to weigh its options. Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank lending limits, in the latest real-world tokenization use case. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets