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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeDaily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now!Vote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Iran's Friday announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened d

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Iran's Friday announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened during the current ceasefire triggered one of the sharpest oil reversals of the year.

Brent crude fell 12.95% to $86.52, and WTI dropped 14.26% to $81.19, both their lowest levels since Mar. 11 and the largest single-day declines since Apr. 8. US stocks surged, bond yields dropped, the dollar weakened, and Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $78,336.

Traders stripped the war premium they had spent weeks layering into crude prices, and risk assets repriced accordingly.

Yesterday, the Strait was opened on Iranian terms. Commercial vessels required authorization from Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization and the IRGC and had to transit through Iran-designated safe lanes, but the US blockade on Iranian shipping remains fully in place until a broader diplomatic settlement.

That window has already narrowed. As of Apr. 18, Iran said it had closed the Strait again after the US left its blockade in place, pushing the market back into a countdown toward the Apr. 22 ceasefire deadline.

Only eight oil and gas tankers moved during the reopening, underscoring how far the route remains from anything resembling normal traffic.

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Bitcoin retakes $78,000 as Trump declares Hormuz 'open and ready for business'

The bitcoin move spread to other major cryptocurrencies, lifting the total market cap back above $2.7 trillion.

Despite the rally, sentiment remains cautious, with derivatives markets suggesting traders are not fully convinced the move will hold.

Bitcoin jumped to as high as $78,100 on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was "completely open and ready for business," echoing earlier comments from Iran's foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi that commercial vessel passage had resumed under a ceasefire.

The move marks a roughly two-and-a-half-month high for bitcoin, which last traded above $78,000 before sliding from about $90,000 to $60,000 in early February. By mid-morning, BTC began to settle at around $77,700.

Other major cryptocurrencies saw slightly higher gains, with Ethereum (ETH), XRP (XRP), and Dogecoin (DOGE) all gaining more than 5% in the last 24 hours, according to The Block's crypto price data, helping to lift the total crypto market cap back over the $2.7 trillion mark.

Equities also pushed higher, with the S&P 500 hitting a fresh high near 7,125, while oil futures fell sharply from around $91 at Thursday’s close to under $81 this morning.

That said, the reopening is tied to a 10-day ceasefire, and Trump said a U.S. naval blockade targeting Iran would remain in place, causing some uncertainty around how "open" the strait will be in practice. In a follow-up post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that "Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again."

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Worldcoin tanks 13% as World’s iris-scanning tech expands to Zoom, DocusignWorldcoin fell 13.4% to roughly $0.28 on Friday as World, the identity-focused company led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled several new integrations for its “proof of human” stack, which uses iris-scanning technology to verify identities.

Video conferencing tool Zoom is integrating World’s Deep Face authentication to prevent deepfakes, while electronic signature platform Docusign is adding World’s ID verification tech to digital agreements, World said on Friday. Dating app Tinder is also expanding its World ID verification to US users.



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Stripe doubles down on blockchain and stablecoins, aiming to become 'AWS for money'


Global payments giant Stripe is building what it calls the "AWS for money," and crypto tech is at the center of that plan.

Speaking at the RWA Summit in Cannes, France, Adrien Duchâteau, Stripe's head of crypto go-to-market, said the company is now integrating stablecoins and blockchain across its core payment stack as it looks to modernize how money moves globally.

"We’re putting product by product more of our stack onchain," he said.

The move builds on the firm's long, if uneven, history with crypto. Stripe was one of the earliest major tech companies to embrace bitcoin , enabling BTC payments as early as 2014 before pulling back in 2018 as volatility made it impractical for merchants, Duchâteau said. The company returned in 2021 with a dedicated crypto team, betting that the underlying technology had matured enough to support real-world use, he added.

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The company's blockchain ambition focuses on fixing a core problem: global payments remain slow and expensive. Cross-border transfers, Duchâteau explained, still rely on systems like SWIFT, which can take days to settle. For platforms paying creators or contractors, that delay often dictates payout schedules.

Stripe processes nearly $2 trillion in annual payments — roughly 2% of the global GDP — and serves over 5 million businesses around the globe, so even incremental improvements to settlement could have wide-reaching effects, he said.

"We’re operating in T+3 networks," he said, meaning that a transaction often takes three days from the moment of payment to settlement. "If you reduce that to zero, that is a magnitude of change."

To realize that vision, Stripe acquired stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge for $1.1 billion in 2024, then bought crypto wallet provider Pri

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