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G7 Warns of Quantum Computing Threat to Cryptocurrency Security
The Group of Seven (G7), comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, warned in a new report published Saturday, September 5, 2026 (14 Shahrivar 1405), that advances in quantum computing pose a serious threat to current economic infrastructure and cryptographic systems. According to Arzdigital, the group called on governments and the private sector to begin migrating to quantum resistant systems before quantum technologies can decrypt sensitive data. Per the report, while the G7 statement does not name cryptocurrencies directly, the public key algorithms underpinning blockchain and digital wallet security are vulnerable to the threat. Bitcoin developers are studying proposals such as BIP-360 for quantum resistant signatures, Ethereum researchers are working to replace cryptographic components in staking contracts, and the Solana network, which uses EdDSA signatures, has an easier migration path and has already tested post quantum signatures on its test network.
Arzdigital
FAO Global Food Price Index Hits Highest Level Since November 2022 in August
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Price Index rose to 133.3 points in August 2026, its highest level since November 2022. According to Ecoiran, intensifying climate risks and disruptions to global trade routes were cited as the main drivers of the increase. A rise in the global food price index can raise the cost of importing staple goods for countries such as Iran and add to domestic food inflation.
Ecoiran
Baltic Dry Index Hits Five-Year High, Up 13.9% on the Week Amid Strong Iron Ore and Coal Demand
The Baltic Dry Index, the global benchmark for dry bulk shipping costs, extended its rally for a third straight session on Friday, September 4, 2026 (13 Shahrivar 1405), rising 4 percent from the previous day to 3,628 points, its highest level since October 2021. Per Trading Economics data, the index has gained 13.9 percent over the past week. Its capesize sub-index, which mainly covers vessels carrying up to 150,000 tonnes of iron ore or coal, jumped 6.4 percent to 6,427 points, its highest since December 2023. The report attributed the surge in shipping rates to strong demand for commodities such as iron ore and coal, combined with tight vessel supply and longer shipping routes caused by geopolitical disruptions. The Baltic Dry Index's all time high remains 11,793 points, set in May 2008. Higher dry bulk shipping costs also affect the cost of exporting metal and mining products, including Iranian steel.
Trading Economics
US August Jobs Growth Beats Forecasts; Gold and Bitcoin Fall as Fed Rate Hike Odds Rise
According to Ecoiran and ArzDigital, both citing the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, on Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), the US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, beating every estimate in a Bloomberg survey; the unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent, the labor force participation rate rose to 61.6 percent from 61.4 percent, and June and July payrolls were revised up by a combined 55,000. Average hourly wages rose 0.3 percent from the prior month and 3.1 percent from a year earlier, the lowest annual wage growth since 2021. Per ArzDigital, citing the Financial Times, immediately after the data's release the odds of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike at its September 15 to 16 meeting rose from about 50 percent to nearly 60 percent, and the two year US Treasury yield climbed to about 4.41 percent. Global spot gold, which had been trading above 4,472 dollars an ounce before the report, fell more than 100 dollars, while bitcoin dropped more than 2 percent within an hour to below 80,000 dollars; more than 200 million dollars in long crypto positions were liquidated within 15 minutes of the data's release.
Ecoiran
Oil Climbs in Global Markets, on Track for Biggest Weekly Gain Since Mid July
According to Boursenews, citing Reuters, oil prices rose in global trading on Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026); Brent crude futures gained 0.2 percent to 95.67 dollars a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate gained 0.3 percent to 91.56 dollars a barrel. Since the start of this week, Brent has risen 7.1 percent and WTI 9.8 percent, putting both on track for their biggest weekly gain since the week ending July 20, a rise linked to intensifying military tension between the United States and Iran and concern over supply risk in West Asia. Per the Reuters report, two Iraqi energy officials said Wednesday that Iraq's oil exports rose from about 1.35 million barrels a day in July to about 2.34 million barrels a day in August. Shipping trackers Kepler, Vortexa and TankerTrackers estimate that oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz remain about 6 to 8 million barrels a day below pre war levels, a figure that contradicts a claim by US President Donald Trump that traffic has returned close to normal, near 18 million barrels a day; traders have dismissed that claim.
Boursenews, citing Reuters
Global Gold Steady Ahead of US Jobs Report, on Track for a Weekly Gain
According to Boursenews, global gold prices held steady on Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), ahead of the release of the US nonfarm payrolls report, with spot gold at 4,468.27 dollars an ounce; US gold futures fell 0.6 percent to 4,514.60 dollars. Gold had risen about 2 percent on Thursday after Federal Reserve board member Christopher Waller said he would support holding interest rates steady if the recent slowdown in inflationary pressure continues, remarks that led traders to scale back expectations for a September rate increase. According to Reuters, the CME FedWatch tool put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month at 50 percent. In other precious metals, silver fell 0.5 percent to 66.59 dollars an ounce, palladium fell about 1 percent to 1,408.75 dollars, and platinum fell 1.5 percent to 1,799.44 dollars an ounce.
Boursenews, citing Reuters
How Global Oil Markets Absorbed the Shock of the Strait of Hormuz Disruption
According to an Ecoiran analysis published Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which before the war carried about 20 million barrels of oil a day, or 20 to 25 percent of the world's seaborne oil and gas trade, was initially seen as one of the biggest energy crises in a generation, with some forecasts warning oil prices could reach 150 to 200 dollars a barrel. Per the report, prices did cross 126 dollars a barrel but did not rise as much as those forecasts suggested. Ecoiran writes that strategic and commercial reserves covered about 9 million barrels a day of the shortfall, the International Energy Agency coordinated the release of about 400 million barrels from global stockpiles, the United States raised its own exports to a new record, and alternative Saudi and Emirati pipelines to Red Sea ports and Fujairah covered about 6 million barrels a day of the disrupted flow. China's crude oil imports also fell by about 4 to 5 million barrels a day, reaching their lowest level in roughly eight years, easing significant pressure on the global market.
Ecoiran
Binance Places Four Cryptocurrencies on Monitoring Tag List, Removes 14 Tokens From Binance Alpha
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to Arzdigital, published Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), added four tokens, AVA (Ava), GNS (Gains Network), SCR (Scroll) and TOWNS (Towns Protocol), to its "monitoring tag" list in its latest review, a label indicating these assets carry higher risk and volatility relative to other tokens listed on the exchange. At the same time, 14 tokens, including MTP, BDXN, TALE, BOS and SAROS, were removed from the curated "Binance Alpha" section. Binance said it will review monitoring tagged projects more frequently and may remove them from spot trading if they fail to maintain the exchange's standards, with review criteria including trading volume, liquidity, developer activity and smart contract stability. Users trading these assets on spot or margin markets must complete a risk awareness quiz every 90 days.
Arzdigital
Ripple Reserves on Binance Fall to a Two Year Low
According to on chain data platform CryptoQuant, cited by Arzdigital, Ripple's average monthly reserves on Binance have fallen by about 500 million tokens since November, dropping from 3.1 billion to 2.6 billion XRP, the lowest level since February 2024. Analysts say part of the decline may reflect long term holders moving assets into private wallets, along with new institutional demand from XRP ETFs launched by firms such as Bitwise and Franklin Templeton in late 2025. Bitwise's XRP ETF held close to 364.8 million XRP as of the end of August 2026. XRP has risen about 8 percent this week and is now trading around $1.45. CryptoQuant described the falling exchange reserves as a moderately positive medium term signal, while cautioning that its direct, immediate effect on price in the short term is unclear.
Arzdigital
Falling Fed Rate Hike Bets Push Bitcoin Back Above $81,000
Bitcoin traded back above $81,000 in Friday morning Asia trading on September 4, 2026, rising about 3.83 percent over 24 hours to $80,744, according to Donya e Eqtesad citing CoinDesk data. The CME FedWatch tool now shows traders pricing the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month roughly even with the odds of no change, down from above 63 percent in recent days. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he would support holding rates steady if price pressures keep easing. US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded about $277 million in net inflows on Thursday. Among the top ten cryptocurrencies, Zcash led gains with a 14.6 percent jump over 24 hours, while Ethereum rose 4.06 percent.
Donya-e-Eqtesad
Warning over fake Claude apps targeting users' crypto wallets
Security researchers at Morphisec warned about fake desktop applications using the name of Anthropic's Claude AI. According to ArzDigital, the malicious apps are distributed with promises of free access to advanced Claude models but contain infostealer malware called Revstealer. Morphisec said a fake app titled "Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop" was distributed via GitHub and, once installed, steals cryptocurrency wallet files, including from Atomic, Armory, Sparrow, Wasabi and Electrum, as well as Ledger and Trezor software, along with passwords and browser data from Windows users. The firm said the malware cannot directly decrypt a wallet at the initial stage, but if a user has reused or used a weak password, attackers may later gain access to the funds. Morphisec advised users to download AI software only from official websites and sources.
ArzDigital, citing Morphisec
Coldcard wallet hacker moves stolen bitcoin after weeks of silence
An attacker linked to the third wave of Coldcard hardware wallet thefts has begun moving part of the stolen bitcoin after weeks of silence. According to ArzDigital, the hacker converted about 10% of the stolen assets to Ethereum via the THORChain protocol and moved the funds to a new Ethereum address; THORChain said it has shared the address details with law enforcement and security firms so the funds can be traced if moved again to centralized platforms. Before this transfer, about 87% of the stolen assets, roughly 1,789 bitcoin worth approximately $114 million, had remained in the original addresses. Investigations show the hacker ran into problems completing some transactions while using THORChain, though the exact cause is unclear.
ArzDigital
G20 nations back clear legal frameworks for digital assets
G20 finance leaders backed the creation of clear legal frameworks for innovation in digital assets in an official statement. According to ArzDigital, the countries, while stressing the need to preserve financial stability, said precise regulation could play a transformative role in economic growth and placed digital assets among the group's priorities for 2026. A major part of the meeting focused on the stablecoin market, estimated at $315 billion, and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was tasked with reviewing the cross-border implications of these assets. The G20 also stressed strict enforcement of anti-money-laundering rules; citing a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report referenced in the statement, only 34% of the world's jurisdictions have complied with global digital asset standards.
ArzDigital
Gold hits $4,437 as markets await US jobs report
Gold rose more than 1% over the 24 hours to Thursday, September 3, 2026, trading around $4,437 an ounce. According to ArzDigital, the gain came ahead of the US nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report, due Friday, September 4 at 16:00 Tehran time, which could shift market expectations for the Federal Reserve's next rate decision. At the time of the report, traders priced in roughly a 63% chance the Fed would raise rates by 25 basis points at its September meeting, while private payroll data released ahead of the NFP showed August hiring came in weaker than expected. Ilya Spivak, head of macro at Tastylive, called the US jobs report the week's most decisive event for gold, saying a hold above $4,400 could open the way toward $4,500 and then $4,700.
ArzDigital
Bitcoin Miners' Revenue Tops $1 Billion in August
According to Arzdigital, bitcoin network miners earned revenue of about 1.008 billion dollars in August 2026, their best monthly performance since May. Of that total, about 1.001 billion dollars came from block rewards and 7.1 million dollars from transaction fees, with the increase driven mainly by bitcoin's 24.95 percent price gain in August. Even so, the "hashprice" index, which measures daily revenue per petahash of processing power, held at around 38.86 dollars, still reflecting the economic pressure the recent halving has placed on miners. For hashprice to reach a healthier level of 100 dollars, bitcoin's price would need to climb to around 198,950 dollars, a gap that has pushed some large mining companies to diversify revenue by offering cloud computing services for artificial intelligence.
Arzdigital
Pantera Capital CEO: A New Three-Year Bitcoin Bull Cycle Has Begun
Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, said in an interview with Bloomberg Crypto, carried by Arzdigital on Thursday, September 3, 2026 (12 Shahrivar 1405), that he believes bitcoin has entered a new three year bull cycle. Morehead said recent changes to US Treasury policy toward larger debt buybacks, combined with rising liquidity and weakening fiat currencies, could support a continued rally in scarce assets like bitcoin. Pointing to bitcoin's historical four year cycles, he said he still follows that pattern and believes the next upswing has begun. Morehead also cautioned that these policies do not resolve the core problem in the US economy, namely rising government debt. His comments reflect the analytical view of a well known crypto investor and should be read as such, not as a firm price forecast.
Arzdigital, citing Bloomberg Crypto
OPEC+ Likely to Keep October Oil Output Policy Unchanged
According to Bourse News, citing Reuters, three sources familiar with the matter said OPEC+ is likely to keep its October oil output policy unchanged at Sunday's meeting, as the group completed the unwinding of one layer of voluntary supply cuts this month and is now focused on 2027 quota negotiations. The meeting involves seven core members: Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan and Oman. The report said the US military campaign against Iran continues to disrupt oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz, reducing OPEC+'s influence over prices and market share. Consultancy DeGolyer and MacNaughton is expected to deliver its review of members' production capacity, used to set 2027 quota baselines, to the group by the end of this month. Bloomberg also reported last week that Venezuela is weighing an exit from OPEC.
Bourse News, citing Reuters
New Zealand Raises Rates as Signs Point to New Global Monetary Tightening Wave
New Zealand's central bank raised its interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 (10 Shahrivar 1405). Per Ecoiran, European Central Bank governing council member and Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel said the same day the ECB will raise rates next week, with eurozone inflation running at 3.3 percent. In the US, the 10-year Treasury yield rose 16 basis points to 4.812 percent, while in Japan, Bank of Japan board member Hajime Takata said an interest-rate increase larger than 25 basis points is possible at the bank's next meeting.
Ecoiran
Brent crude nears $95 a barrel as Iran-US tensions escalate
Global oil prices rose on the morning of Wednesday, September 2, 2026, following a fresh wave of US strikes inside Iran and Iran's military response against neighboring countries. According to Donya e Eqtesad, Brent crude in European markets reached $94.65 a barrel around 06:45 Tehran time. Oilprice.com reported Brent at $95.44, up 0.83 percent on the day, around the same time, consistent with the $95.42 reading on Sahmino's own Brent price page at 07:46 Tehran time. The increase coincided with a report from Axios that the US had struck two Iranian oil tankers, and with the continuing standoff in the Strait of Hormuz.
Donya-e-Eqtesad
Bond Yields Surge in US, Japan and UK; Global Gold Falls 1.8 Percent to 4,369 Dollars
Global markets faced a jump in long-term bond yields in the first days of September, driving a wave of selling in global gold and silver. According to Ecoiran, reported Tuesday, 10 Shahrivar 1405 (September 1, 2026), the US 10-year Treasury yield rose 34 basis points to 4.78 percent, its highest level since January 2025. Live data from TradingEconomics at the same hour put the yield at 4.791 percent, consistent with Ecoiran's figure. Japan's 10-year yield reached about 3 percent, its highest in roughly a century, while the UK's 10-year yield climbed to 5.229 percent, its highest since 2008; TradingEconomics reported those yields at 2.996 percent and 5.223 percent respectively. Ecoiran attributed the jump to hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh at the Jackson Hole symposium and rising market odds, now above 66 percent, for a September Fed rate hike. In the wake of these moves, the global gold price fell more than 1.8 percent to 4,369 dollars an ounce, its lowest level since August 19. Sahmino's own price data at 3:59pm Tehran time showed spot gold down 1.76 percent at 4,370.32 dollars, consistent with Ecoiran's figure. Silver fell more than 3 percent to 64.5 dollars an ounce. US stock index futures also declined, with S&P 500 futures down about 0.6 percent and Nasdaq futures down more than 1 percent.
Ecoiran
Brent Crude Tops 91 Dollars as Fears of US Iran Escalation Mount
Global oil prices rose on Tuesday, 10 Shahrivar 1405 (September 1, 2026), according to Al Jazeera, on fears of escalation in West Asia following the first direct exchange of fire between the US and Iran in more than a month. Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose more than 1 percent to top 91 dollars a barrel, extending a gain of more than 2.5 percent the previous day; the November delivery Brent contract stood at 91.44 dollars a barrel as of 05:00 GMT, up from just over 88 dollars at Monday's close. Sahmino's own price data at 11:28 Tehran time that day showed Brent at 91.76 dollars, up 1.4 percent on the day. The rise came alongside US strikes on Iran's Larak Island and retaliatory Iranian attacks on two bases used by US forces in Jordan. US President Donald Trump, in a Monday Fox News interview, responded to Iran's attacks on the Jordan bases by saying the US would hit back hard. The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre also reported that a tanker crossing the Strait of Hormuz was struck by three unidentified projectiles, with no casualties reported and no group claiming responsibility. Brent has traded in the 86 to 91 dollar range since peaking at nearly 94.40 dollars on 30 Mordad (August 21). Saul Kavonic, head of energy research at MST Financial, told Al Jazeera the oil market is increasingly pricing in a protracted no war, no peace scenario, with only partial volumes flowing through the Strait of Hormuz possibly lasting well into 2027.
Al Jazeera
Spot Ripple ETFs Post Inflows for a Ninth Straight Day; Cumulative Net Inflows Reach 1.6 Billion Dollars
According to Arzdigital, published Tuesday, 10 Shahrivar 1405 (September 1, 2026), spot Ripple (XRP) exchange traded funds drew about 26.2 million dollars in inflows on 6 Shahrivar (August 28) based on SoSoValue data, marking a ninth consecutive day of inflows and lifting cumulative net inflows since launch to about 1.6 billion dollars. More than 725 million dollars in fresh capital has flowed in over those nine days alone. Per the report, Goldman Sachs leads institutional holders with 87.4 million dollars in assets, followed by Jane Street and Millennium Management. James Seyffart, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst, was quoted saying inflows into Ripple ETFs have been remarkably one directional, reaching about 1.8 billion dollars in cumulative inflows. Arzdigital added that spot bitcoin ETFs have meanwhile ended their own streak of consecutive inflows, a contrast that has drawn attention in recent market analysis.
Arzdigital
Russia-Ukraine War and Drought Push Global Wheat Prices Near Three-Year High
Global wheat prices have climbed toward a three-year high in recent weeks as Russia and Ukraine step up attacks on each other's Black Sea grain terminals and drought curbs output in several producing regions. According to Al Jazeera, Chicago wheat futures, the global benchmark, hit a three-year high on Friday, 5 Shahrivar (August 28), before easing 0.54 percent to $7.79 a bushel by 02:00 GMT on Monday, 9 Shahrivar (August 31). Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure reported 35 Russian attacks on vessels in port, 22 at sea and 67 on port facilities in July alone, compared with just 14 total vessel strikes for all of 2025. Ukraine's agriculture minister said on Friday that recent Russian air attacks had destroyed about 90 percent of retailers' food logistics infrastructure in the country. Joe Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute, told Al Jazeera the core problem is not a shortage of wheat but the cost and difficulty of moving it to buyers. Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, sourced more than 82 percent of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine in the first half of 2026, while Indonesia, Asia's second largest importer, has had to seek alternative supplies from Bulgaria, Australia, Romania and Argentina. The rise in global wheat and grain prices is among the factors shaping food import costs and domestic inflation in countries, including Iran, that source part of their wheat needs from global markets.
Al Jazeera
Oil Tops $90 a Barrel as US and Iran Trade Fresh Strikes
Global oil prices jumped early Monday, 9 Shahrivar 1405 (August 31, 2026), in Asian trading, after US forces struck two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rocket launchers on Larak Island near the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran responded by firing missiles at a US base in Jordan. According to Gulf News, citing Reuters data, Brent crude rose to $90.32 a barrel at 7:02am Tokyo time, breaking above the psychological $90 level, while US West Texas Intermediate rose to $85.41. Shortly after, at 9:20am Tokyo time, the OilPrice market dashboard showed Brent at $89.45, up 1.53 percent, and WTI at $84.57, up 1.40 percent; the UAE's flagship Murban crude posted the sharpest move, jumping more than 4 percent to $95.75, a reaction Gulf News said reflects the market's heightened sensitivity to Gulf supply and shipping risk. According to data provider Trading Economics, Brent settled at $90.45 by the end of that day's trading, up 2.67 percent, a gain that brings its rise for August as a whole to about 3 percent and for the past month to nearly 8 percent. Global oil prices matter for Iran's market in two ways: they affect government export revenue and the budget, while rising geopolitical risk tends to lift safe haven demand for gold and hard currency in the domestic market.
Gulf News, citing Reuters
Dollar Holds Near Two Week High as Yen Slips Past 160; G20 Finance Meeting Eyes Iran Sanctions Coordination
According to Reuters, in a report carried by Shafaq News early Monday, 9 Shahrivar 1405 (August 31, 2026), the US dollar index, which measures the currency against six major peers, held near a two week high at 99.6, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium pushed traders to raise their bets on a September rate hike. Markets priced the probability of a September Fed rate hike at 57 percent, the report said, while the two year US Treasury yield rose to a more than one month high of 4.33 percent. At the same time, the Japanese yen slipped past the psychologically important 160 per dollar level, trading at 160.01, a threshold the report said has again put the risk of official intervention by Tokyo and Washington in the spotlight. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that recent yen moves had been "pretty well contained." Dollar demand was also supported by Brent crude's nearly 2 percent rise after the US strike on Iran's Larak Island on Sunday, the report said. Market attention is now turning to the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in the United States on Monday and Tuesday, 9 and 10 Shahrivar, where the report said observers will watch for signs of coordinated efforts to sever economic ties with Iran. Swings in the dollar index and US Treasury yields feed directly into global gold prices and, through them, into Iran's domestic coin and currency markets.
Shafaq News, citing Reuters
Global Crypto Funds Draw $3.2 Billion in a Week, Largest Since October 2025
According to Bank of America's weekly "The Flow Show" report, cited by CryptoBriefing and Iran's tgju.org on Sunday, 8 Shahrivar 1405 (August 30, 2026), global crypto investment funds recorded $3.2 billion in net inflows for the week ending Mordad 31, 1405 (August 22, 2026), the largest single week inflow since October 2025. The figure came just one week after the same funds had seen $392 million in outflows, marking a roughly $3 billion week over week swing. US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs did the heavy lifting, together pulling in about $2.6 billion, or 81 percent of the total. Bitcoin funds alone attracted $1.9 billion and Ethereum funds $697 million. Monthly Bitcoin ETF inflows for August 2026 also topped $3 billion, making it one of the strongest months on record for these funds. Bitcoin's price rose alongside the inflows, climbing into the $78,000 to $80,000 range; per Sahmino's own price data, bitcoin traded at $78,173 on Monday, 9 Shahrivar (August 31). For Iran's market, where tether and other cryptocurrencies track these same global prices, the return of institutional appetite for Bitcoin and Ethereum is one gauge of global demand direction; tether traded around 209,000 tomans in Iran's domestic market today.
CryptoBriefing
Bitcoin Shows Muted Reaction to US Iran Escalation, Stays August's Top Performer
According to a CoinDesk report by Omkar Godbole published on the morning of Monday, 9 Shahrivar 1405 (August 31, 2026), bitcoin showed a relatively muted reaction to the US strike on Larak Island and the IRGC's retaliatory missile strikes on US bases in Jordan, even as oil prices rose and US stock indexes fell in response. The report said bitcoin remains August's best performing asset despite the escalation. Per Sahmino's own recorded data, bitcoin was trading at 77,473 dollars at 08:00 on Monday morning, down 1.85 percent (1,433 dollars), a far smaller move than the more than 2 percent jump in global oil prices attributed to the same developments earlier the same day. The crypto market's comparatively muted response stands in contrast to sharper swings in traditional markets, suggesting investors in the asset, at least so far, are not pricing the escalation between Iran and the United States as a systemic risk to bitcoin.
CoinDesk
Global Oil Jumps More Than 2 Percent After US-Iran Strikes Exchange Near Strait of Hormuz
According to a report published by Oilprice.com on the morning of Monday, 9 Shahrivar 1405 (August 31, 2026), West Texas Intermediate rose 2.47 percent to 85.46 dollars a barrel and Brent climbed 2.71 percent to 90.49 dollars a barrel in Asian trading that day. The jump followed Sunday's, 8 Shahrivar (August 30), US strike on two IRGC rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, and the IRGC's retaliatory missile and drone strikes on US bases in Jordan. Per the same report, Jordan's armed forces said on Monday that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed eight missiles that entered its airspace. US Central Command said that as of August 30 (8 Shahrivar), its naval blockade of Iran had redirected 83 commercial vessels, disabled 3, and boarded 2. Oilprice.com noted both benchmarks had fallen more than 4 percent over the prior week, so Monday's roughly 2 percent gain recovered only a small part of that decline, and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, now down to about five ships a day, remains far below pre-war levels.
Oilprice.com
Grayscale's Zcash ETF Begins Trading on NYSE Arca as ZEC Rallies to a Multi Year High
The Zcash ETF, ticker ZCSH, built by Grayscale, began trading on NYSE Arca on Monday, 3 Shahrivar 1405 (August 25, 2026), becoming the first US exchange traded fund with direct exposure to the privacy focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC). The product converts Grayscale's private Zcash Trust, which had operated since October 2017, into a redeemable exchange traded vehicle; Grayscale filed for the conversion with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2025 (Aban 1404). The fund launched holding about 387,000 ZEC, worth roughly 313 million dollars, and charges a 2.50 percent annual fee, with Coinbase as custodian and BNY as administrator. The launch followed Zcash's Ironwood network upgrade in July 2026 (Tir 1405), which replaced the network's older anonymous transaction system after a security vulnerability in that system was discovered in May 2026 (Ordibehesht 1405) and patched the following month. Steve Vanourny, Grayscale's head of indexes, said investors increasingly want access to digital assets beyond Bitcoin and Ether through standard brokerage accounts. Per Sahmino's own price data, Zcash was trading around 866 dollars on the evening of Sunday, 8 Shahrivar 1405 (August 30, 2026), up nearly 90 percent over the past month.
Bloomingbit
Rain Card Infrastructure Hack Hits Avici Neobank; Full Refunds Pledged to Over 1,680 Users
Rain, a crypto card infrastructure provider, said an outdated version of its Solana based smart contracts, which manage users card balances, contained a vulnerability. An attacker repeatedly submitted signed authorizations to insert themselves as an administrator on individual users card collateral wallets and withdraw funds. Avici, a Solana based neobank, said in an update on Friday, 6 Shahrivar 1405 (August 28, 2026), that 1,685 of its users were affected, with total impacted card balances reaching 500,859.20 dollars. Avici pledged to fully refund every affected user and stressed that the incident was limited to card funding contracts, leaving users self custodial wallets untouched. Rain said it has upgraded every program still running the vulnerable contract version and has observed no further unauthorized activity since. Avici's token fell as much as 49 percent from its 24 hour high after the breach was disclosed. According to crypto news outlets, another neobank called Tria, which uses the same Rain infrastructure, reported that 636 of its users were affected, with losses exceeding 430,000 dollars.
AMBCrypto
Bessent to Press G20 Finance Chiefs on Tighter Iran Sanctions at Asheville Summit
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is hosting the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting on Monday and Tuesday, 9 and 10 Shahrivar 1405 (August 31 and September 1, 2026), in Asheville, North Carolina. According to a CNBC report published Sunday, 8 Shahrivar 1405 (August 30, 2026), Bessent is pressing G20 members to sever economic ties with Iran, warning that countries still buying Iranian oil or handling financial transactions with Tehran face US secondary sanctions. The push comes two days after the US Treasury curbed the UAE branches of Egypt's Banque Misr on Friday, 6 Shahrivar (August 28), over their links to Iran. A senior US Treasury official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNBC that US 30 year Treasury yields have reached their highest level in 19 years this month (August 2026), and that Bessent's earlier move to double buybacks of longer dated Treasuries to 4 billion dollars per operation had only briefly cooled those yields. Total US government debt separately crossed 40 trillion dollars for the first time on 28 Mordad 1405 (August 19, 2026). Josh Lipsky, international economics chair at the Atlantic Council, told CNBC that Bessent wants to put Iran front and center at the meeting, while many G20 members would rather discuss US tariffs; all G20 countries and the European Union have faced 10 to 12.5 percent US tariffs since 2 Mordad (July 24) over allegedly lax enforcement of bans on goods made with forced labor. Mark Sobel, a former US Treasury official who now chairs the OMFIF think tank's US operations, said G20 economies have been hurt by the US war with Iran, which he said their countries do not support, and that no amount of US diplomacy can change that reality.
CNBC
BIS Chief Says Stablecoins Are Not a Credible Payment Tool at Scale, Favors Tokenized Deposits
Pablo Hernandez de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), said in comments reported by Reuters and carried by Donya e Eqtesad on Sunday, 8 Shahrivar 1405 (30 August 2026), that stablecoins cannot serve as a reliable payment tool at scale and that tokenized deposits should carry the bulk of everyday payments instead. He said stablecoins and tokenized deposits can coexist, but stablecoins should be limited mostly to specialized uses. De Cos warned that growing use of dollar linked stablecoins in some countries could weaken those countries' monetary sovereignty and reduce the pass through of domestic monetary policy. His remarks contrast with the position of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has backed stablecoins as a tool to reinforce the dollar's reserve status.
Donya-e-Eqtesad, citing Reuters
Hackers Exploit Software Bug to Steal $6 Million Across Six Cosmos Networks
Cosmos Labs said hackers exploited a vulnerability in the shared Cosmos EVM software layer, which affected more than 40 blockchains, to steal about 6 million dollars in assets from six networks in the ecosystem, including Mantra, TAC and KiiChain. According to the report, about 2.87 million dollars was drained through decentralized exchanges and another 2.85 million dollars through centralized exchanges, with the Mantra network suffering the largest loss after 720.9 million tokens were moved without authorization. Cosmos Labs confirmed it received the bug report on April 25, 2026, and patched it quietly in May, but said the public disclosure of technical details in August let hackers begin their attack within less than 12 hours. Following the incident, 13 of the 40 networks it contacted managed to pause activity or apply the fix before being exploited.
Arzdigital
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post $201.9 Million Outflow After Nine Straight Days of Inflows
US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of 201.9 million dollars in the week's final trading session, after nine consecutive days of net inflows. According to Arzdigital, bitcoin's price, which had earlier made an unsuccessful attempt to hold above 80,000 dollars, was trading around 77,500 dollars as the trend shifted. Market analysts attribute the selling pressure mainly to recent remarks by Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve official, at the Jackson Hole symposium, where he said US core inflation remains above the Fed's 2 percent target and needs to return to it more quickly, comments that dampened expectations for near term policy easing. According to CoinGlass data, the 76,500 to 77,000 dollar range is seen as a key support zone for bitcoin.
Arzdigital
Lazarus Hacking Group Moves $19.4 Million in Bitcoin, Its Second Major Transfer This Month
According to Arzdigital, citing blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain, the North Korea linked Lazarus hacking group moved 244.148 bitcoin, worth about 19.42 million dollars, from wallets tied to the group on August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), when bitcoin traded around 79,500 dollars. It was the group's second large transfer this month; on August 12 it had already moved about 262.2 bitcoin worth 16.64 million dollars. Separately, crypto exchange Bybit has filed a lawsuit against the North Korean government and the Lazarus group in a Washington federal court, seeking to recover assets stolen in a 1.5 billion dollar hack. According to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, North Korean hackers stole more than 2.02 billion dollars in cryptocurrency in 2025 alone, a 51 percent increase from the prior year.
Arzdigital, citing Lookonchain and Chainalysis
Ethereum Exchange Reserves Hit a Multi Year Low as 1.4 Million ETH Leave Since June
According to data from analytics platform Santiment, published by Arzdigital on Saturday, 7 Shahrivar 1405 (August 29, 2026), Ethereum reserves on centralized exchanges fell from 7.69 million ETH on June 3, 2026 to 6.28 million ETH on August 27, 2026, a drop of nearly 1.4 million ETH. The outflow intensified even as Ethereum's price rose about 30 percent since mid August. Over the same window, bitcoin's exchange balance rose only about 0.25 percent and stayed near the top of its recent range, despite bitcoin's price climbing 26 percent. Separately, US spot bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have posted nine consecutive days of net inflows, which the report described as the strongest institutional demand since October 2023. As of the report, bitcoin funds had attracted more than 3.5 billion dollars and Ethereum funds about 1.66 billion dollars.
Arzdigital, citing Santiment
Qatar Extends LNG Force Majeure Into November as Gas Prices Jump in Asia and Europe
State-owned QatarEnergy extended the force majeure on its liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries into early November on Friday, 7 Shahrivar 1405 (August 28, 2026), as LNG traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a standstill. According to Oilprice.com's Charles Kennedy, citing Bloomberg, Asia's spot LNG price jumped to $23.388 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) on Friday, near four-year highs, while Europe's LNG price rose to its highest since 2023 and the Dutch TTF benchmark gas price climbed 2% in morning trading in Amsterdam to top $80 (69 euros) per megawatt-hour. The report said European gas storage sites are only about 63% full heading into winter, compared with a five-year average of roughly 80%. Unlike crude oil, which can be shuttled out of the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship transfers, LNG cannot be moved that way, which is why Qatari cargoes remain trapped behind the chokepoint.
Oilprice.com, citing Bloomberg
Gold Funds Attracted $4.21 Billion in a Single Week
According to Reuters, investment funds linked to gold and other precious metals attracted 4.21 billion dollars in the week ending Shahrivar 4, 1405 (August 26, 2026), the highest weekly inflow into these funds in six months. The inflow came as gold and silver prices strengthened in recent weeks. World Gold Council data show physically backed gold ETFs also posted about 3 billion dollars in net inflows in July.
Arzdigital
Reuters: War Affected Countries Produced 43 Percent of World Oil in 2025
According to Reuters calculations based on International Energy Agency data, countries at war or directly affected by conflict produced about 45 million barrels of oil per day in 2025, more than 43 percent of global supply. Reuters cited the Iran war with the United States and Israel that began about six months ago, alongside the Russia Ukraine war and export restrictions in Libya and Venezuela, as the main drivers. The report estimates current disruption to Persian Gulf oil export flows at 5 to 7 million barrels per day, and says more than 10 percent of the world's oil refining capacity has been taken offline due to the conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Ukraine.
Bourse News
Solana Validators Approve Proposal to Double Annual Disinflation Rate
Solana network validators approved a proposal on Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), doubling the network's annual disinflation rate from 15 percent to 30 percent. According to Cointelegraph, the change reduces future issuance of new SOL tokens, while the network's long term inflation target remains unchanged. The parameter change is part of Solana's internal monetary policy, which adjusts block issuance rewards over time and directly affects the circulating supply of the SOL token.
Cointelegraph
Bitcoin Retreats Toward $78,000 as Fed's Warsh Downplays Cooling Inflation
Bitcoin retreated to around 78,400 dollars on Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's speech at the Jackson Hole symposium. According to Cointelegraph, bitcoin had climbed near 80,000 dollars earlier the same day, but the rally stalled and prices fell after Warsh remained skeptical of recent, softer US inflation readings. The pullback coincided with a roughly 3 percent drop in global gold prices following the same speech, a sign that both risk assets and safe havens were hit as markets raised the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its September meeting.
Cointelegraph
Gold Drops 3 Percent as Fed Chair Warsh Strikes Hawkish Tone at Jackson Hole
Global gold fell to 4,458.89 dollars an ounce on Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), down 3.08 percent from the previous day and its lowest level in a week. Silver dropped roughly 4 percent over the same span. According to Trading Economics, the decline followed a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh at the annual Jackson Hole symposium. In his first major address since taking the post in May 2026, Warsh warned that inflation is not meaningfully slowing and that the central bank still has work to do, though he said financial conditions are not currently restrictive. Markets responded by raising the probability of a September rate hike to near 50 percent. Gold has risen 9.66 percent over the past month and 29.27 percent over the past year, with its all time high of 5,608.35 dollars recorded in January 2026. Given the direct link between Iran's domestic gold and coin market and the global ounce price, the drop could weigh on Tehran's gold and coin prices when trading resumes next week.
Trading Economics
Oil Slips as Hormuz Supply Risk Eases and Persian Gulf Exports Climb
US crude oil (WTI) fell to around 83.3 dollars a barrel on Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), down roughly 0.2 percent from the previous day and about 4 percent for the week, according to Trading Economics. The decline reflects traders increasingly viewing Iran's standoff as an economic and sanctions confrontation rather than a threat to physical oil supply, while improving flows through the Strait of Hormuz and a proposed Iran-Oman corridor have further reduced the perceived supply risk. Citing a Goldman Sachs estimate published the same day, Trading Economics reported Persian Gulf oil exports have climbed to around 15 to 16 million barrels per day, a level still well below the pre-conflict range of 22 to 24 million barrels per day but far above the low of roughly 5 to 6 million barrels per day recorded in March 2026. Iran and Oman have agreed on a revenue-sharing framework for the strait, though Tehran has stressed the deal does not mean an immediate reopening of the route.
Trading Economics
BitGo Acquires NYDIG's Trading Arm to Expand Institutional Crypto Services
Bitcoin infrastructure firm BitGo said on Thursday, 5 Shahrivar 1405 (August 27, 2026), that it has completed the acquisition of NYDIG's institutional trading business under a definitive agreement. According to Cointelegraph, the deal includes NYDIG's institutional client trading relationships and about 30 employees who are joining BitGo; financial terms were not disclosed. The acquired unit provides derivatives, structured products and financing services to asset managers, hedge funds and companies. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said the deal will meaningfully scale the company's trading and infrastructure capabilities. According to the report, NYDIG plans to focus its remaining resources on power generation, Bitcoin mining and high performance computing data centers, where its development pipeline exceeds 3 gigawatts of planned capacity.
Cointelegraph
Galaxy Research: Bitcoin Set the Record for Its Largest Weekly Dollar Gain Ever
According to Arzdigital, in a report published Friday, 6 Shahrivar 1405 (August 28, 2026), Bitcoin rose by about $14,775 in the week ending Monday, 3 Shahrivar (August 25), which Galaxy Research says was the largest weekly dollar gain in the cryptocurrency's history. The price jumped from $62,818 to $77,593 over that period, a gain of 23.5 percent. Galaxy Research said that in percentage terms it ranked as the 41st largest weekly gain in Bitcoin's history and the strongest rally since March 2023 (Esfand 1401). The report said the rally was driven mainly by two factors: the US Treasury's announcement that it would double its long term bond buyback operations, and Donald Trump's call on Congress to pass the CLARITY Act on federal cryptocurrency classification, which triggered a broad short squeeze that liquidated about $2.7 billion in short positions. The market's Fear and Greed Index reached 74 on August 25, the highest level of trader optimism in the past year.
Arzdigital, citing Galaxy Research
Brent and WTI Head for a Weekly Loss Despite Escalating Iran-US Tensions
According to Oilprice.com energy writer Irina Slav, in a report published early Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), crude oil prices are on course for a second straight weekly loss even as no progress has been made toward peace between Iran and the United States. Citing Reuters, the report said Brent crude was trading at $89.17 a barrel at the time of writing, down 5.3 percent for the week, while West Texas Intermediate was at $83.19 a barrel, on course for a 4.3 percent weekly decline. The report said the Wall Street Journal reported this week that the Trump administration has repeatedly told mediating parties it has no interest in returning to the terms of the ceasefire the US and Iran agreed in June 2026, a deal that did not last a month. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly was quoted saying no talks with Iran are underway or scheduled, and that the "Economic Outcast" operation is continuing. The report added that the operation's effectiveness has been questioned by some observers, since cooperation from China, Iran's biggest trade partner, is a key condition, and Beijing has not cooperated so far.
Oilprice.com, citing Reuters
Gold at a Three Month High and the Dollar Near a Multi Month Low as Analysts Point to a "Debasement Trade"
According to Ecoiran, published Friday, August 28, 2026 (6 Shahrivar 1405), gold has climbed to its highest level in more than three months in recent days, the US dollar has fallen near a multi month low, and bitcoin has risen to around $77,000. The report traces the pattern to the US bond market: long term Treasury yields have stayed elevated, and an expansion of long term bond buybacks by the US Treasury signaled to markets that Washington has grown sensitive to persistently high rates. The pattern is known as a "debasement trade," in which capital moves out of dollar linked assets and into gold, commodities and bitcoin. Per Kitco News, spot gold held in the $4,590 to $4,600 range in Thursday, August 27, 2026 (5 Shahrivar 1405) trading, up roughly 15 percent for the month of August. UBS analysts pointed to a "de dollarization" trade as the main driver and set a price target of $5,400 by next summer, though other analysts, including Forex.com's Fawad Razaqzada, warned the market looks somewhat overbought.
Ecoiran
IMF Chief: AI Investment Boom Is Becoming a Driver of Global Economic Growth
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the artificial intelligence investment boom, so far concentrated in the United States, is spreading to other countries and could become a driver of global economic growth. She said other countries are increasing investment in data centers and related infrastructure, while economies connected to the AI hardware supply chain are also benefiting from rising demand. Georgieva said the expansion has helped offset some of the economic pressure from the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and that the global economy has handled the resulting energy shock better than the IMF initially feared. The IMF's July 2026 forecast put global growth this year at 3 percent, versus 3.5 percent in 2025; updated forecasts are due in October. She warned, however, that declining oil and gas reserves ahead of the northern hemisphere winter leave the global economy vulnerable to another rise in energy prices.
Cryptobriefing, citing International Monetary Fund
Reuters: Asia's August Oil Imports Show No Sign of a Hormuz Transit Surge
According to Reuters commodities columnist Clyde Russell, in a report carried by Oilprice.com on Thursday, 5 Shahrivar 1405 (August 27, 2026), data compiled by analytics firm Kpler show Asia's crude oil imports are set to reach about 23.12 million barrels a day in August 2026, slightly down from 23.36 million barrels a day in July. The figures, the report said, do not support claims of a broad rebound in Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic to pre war levels, as US officials have asserted. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in mid August (Mordad) that Middle East oil exports had rebounded to 15 million barrels a day and had even topped the pre war average of 20 million barrels a day on some days. But according to ship tracking data cited in the same report, oil flow out of the Strait of Hormuz is, at best, half the figure the US energy secretary cited. Asia's imports from the Middle East rose to 11.11 million barrels a day in August from 10.76 million barrels a day in July, the report said, but remain more than 4 million barrels a day below the 15.82 million barrel average of the three months before the Iran war began.
Oilprice.com, citing Reuters and Kpler
US Government Moves Portion of Seized Alameda Research Bitcoin Holdings
The US government moved a small amount of Bitcoin from accounts linked to Alameda Research that were seized from Binance.US about three years ago. According to Arzdigital, published Wednesday, 4 Shahrivar 1405 (August 26, 2026), blockchain tracking platform Arkham Intelligence flagged the transaction on August 26. Arkham did not disclose the exact amount transferred or the destination address, and said the move was not necessarily a sign of an asset sale, noting that transfers between wallets can also occur for custody, accounting or security management purposes. Wallets controlled by the US government have moved seized Alameda and bankrupt FTX exchange assets several times during 2026, including about $1.89 million in tokens in May and nearly $984,000 in June, both sent to Coinbase Prime.
Arzdigital
Altcoin Share of Binance Trading Volume Hits Two Year High
Altcoins' share of trading volume on the Binance exchange has climbed to its highest level in two years amid the recent crypto market rally. According to Arzdigital, published Wednesday, 4 Shahrivar 1405 (August 26, 2026), CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said altcoins accounted for 65 percent of total Binance trading volume at the peak of the move, compared with 21 percent for Bitcoin and 13.6 percent for Ether. Total altcoin market value excluding Ether rose by about $135 billion over the same period. The report also cited the Altcoin Impulse index from the platform Altcoin Vector, which reached 93 percent, indicating the rally has spread across a large share of the altcoin market. However, the platform noted readings above 75 percent typically signal an overextended move and raise the likelihood of a pause or price correction.
Arzdigital
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Extend Inflow Streak to Seven Days as August Total Tops $3.03 Billion
According to SoSoValue data reported by Cointelegraph on August 26, 2026, US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to seven straight trading days, adding $314.37 million on Tuesday. That brought August net inflows to $3.03 billion, just $390 million short of October 2025's record total, and cut year to date net outflows by more than half to $2.26 billion. Total net assets held by the funds reached $99.05 billion, with cumulative net inflows since launch at $54.36 billion. US spot Ether ETFs also logged a seventh straight day of inflows, pulling in about $1 billion over the same period. FXStreet independently reported the same SoSoValue figures in a separate article.
Cointelegraph
Solana Network Sets Monthly Record of 4.2 Billion Transactions in July as Price Retakes $100
The Solana network logged 4.2 billion transactions in July 2026, a new monthly record. According to Arzdigital, citing The Kobeissi Letter, transaction volume rose 13.5 percent from June. The surge came alongside a roughly 40 percent rally in Solana's price over eight days that took it back above $100 for the first time since February 2026, reaching as high as $102.88; at the time of the report, Solana had pulled back 5 percent on the day to around $97. According to DefiLlama, the network logged about 109 million transactions and 2.7 million active addresses in the 24 hours through August 25, while trading volume on Solana based decentralized exchanges rose 103 percent week over week to $20.14 billion. Analytics platform RWA.xyz separately reported that the value of tokenized real world assets on Solana reached about $3.97 billion by August 25, up 11.81 percent over the past month.
Arzdigital
Circle Minted About $5 Billion in USDC Stablecoin Over One Week
Circle, issuer of the second largest stablecoin, minted about $5 billion in USDC tokens over the seven days through Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (4 Shahrivar 1405). According to Arzdigital, citing on-chain data from the Solscan platform, a significant share of the new supply went to the Solana network, whose share of total 2026 USDC issuance has risen above 10 percent; even so, Ethereum still hosts about two thirds of the stablecoin's circulating supply. USDC's circulating supply now stands at about $74 billion, still well behind Tether's $183 billion market cap. The move coincides with Circle's new role as technical developer for Hyperliquid exchange's $5 billion reserves. The report said USDC's 2025 transaction volume reached about $18.3 trillion, surpassing Tether's $13.3 trillion.
Arzdigital
Crypto Fear and Greed Index Hits Extreme Greed for the First Time Since 2024
CoinMarketCap's Fear and Greed Index reached 81 on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (4 Shahrivar 1405), putting the crypto market in extreme greed territory for the first time since 2024. According to Arzdigital, the index stood at 41 (neutral) a week earlier and 36 a month earlier. The main driver was bitcoin's nearly 24 percent rally over the past seven days, which briefly took it above $80,000 and triggered about $2.7 billion in short position liquidations within 24 hours. Analysts pointed to a US Treasury Department announcement on increasing liquidity and buying back bonds as a key driver, while US bitcoin ETFs logged more than $1.1 billion in inflows over just two trading days. Experts warned that entering the extreme greed zone can signal an overheated market and a higher chance of a price correction.
Arzdigital
Copper Hits a Fresh Record High of $6.71 a Pound on Comex as London Exchange Stocks Fall 14 Percent
Comex September copper futures in the United States closed up about 1.6 percent on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 (3 Shahrivar 1405), settling at $6.71 a pound, the highest closing level on record. According to Arzdigital, London Metal Exchange copper inventories have fallen about 14 percent since late July 2026 to 214,550 tonnes, with a second straight quarterly cut to Chile's production forecast and a halt at the Grasberg smelter in Indonesia cited as factors behind the tightening supply. Per TradingEconomics, copper eased slightly by 0.21 percent from the prior day to $6.70 on Wednesday, August 26, after touching an all time high of $6.83 earlier in August; the metal is up more than 51 percent from a year earlier. Analysts point to concerns over a weaker US dollar and supply constraints as the main drivers of the rally.
Arzdigital
Oil Prices Dip as Iran-Oman Hormuz Talks Raise Hopes of Reopening; Analysts Urge Caution
Global oil prices fell after reports that Iran and Oman had resumed talks on joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, Oilprice.com reported on Wednesday, Shahrivar 4, 1405 (August 26, 2026), citing Reuters, which described the talks as covering a temporary joint navigational corridor and mine clearance in the strait. At the time of writing, Brent crude traded at 86.69 dollars and WTI at 80.61 dollars a barrel, the report said. The decline coincided with reports of progress in Pakistan peace talks, which ING commodity analysts said also added to downward pressure on oil. ING's Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey, quoted by Oilprice.com, cautioned that any Iran Oman agreement does not necessarily mean normalized oil flows through the chokepoint, and that full normalization is unlikely until the US lifts its naval blockade of Iranian ports and eases sanctions. Citing tanker tracking data from Windward, the same report said only one vessel, a Barbados flagged LPG carrier, transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, with no outbound traffic recorded in that 24 hour window, and that the vessel moved in dark mode, without a tracking signal.
Oilprice.com, citing Reuters and ING
Ethereum Core Developers Draft a Quantum Resistant Upgrade Proposal
According to Arzdigital, published Tuesday, Shahrivar 3, 1405 (August 25, 2026), Ethereum's core developers have drafted a proposal to upgrade the network's Deposit Contract in preparation for the "post-quantum era." The proposal, drafted by researchers including Kevaundray Wedderburn, is built on the EIP-7685 standard and would let the network eventually replace its current BLS digital signature scheme with algorithms resistant to quantum computers. According to the report, unlike the current system, the new contract would support public keys and signatures of variable length, letting validators use a range of cryptographic schemes, while the existing system remains active for backward compatibility. The proposal is currently only at the draft stage on GitHub and must clear security review, technical analysis by client teams, and approval at Ethereum developer meetings before any adoption in a mainnet upgrade.
Arzdigital
Bitcoin Retreats Below $80,000 After Setting a Fresh $81,250 Record
Bitcoin pulled back below the $80,000 level on Tuesday evening, August 25, 2026 Tehran time, after setting a fresh all-time high of $81,250, a roughly 2.5 percent retreat from its daily peak. According to Arzdigital, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hit 82.44, signalling heavily overbought conditions. SoSoValue data cited in the report showed US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $337.56 million in net inflows on Monday, August 24, led by BlackRock with $208.9 million. CoinGecko data put bitcoin's 24-hour high at $81,160 and low at $78,218, with the coin trading near $78,932 at the time of this report. Bitcoin's 200-day moving average sits around $69,166, still pointing to an intact medium-term uptrend.
Arzdigital
Solana Leads Crypto Markets With Nearly 27 Percent Weekly Gain
Crypto markets had a strong week, with Solana leading the rally on a nearly 27 percent seven-day gain through Tuesday evening, August 25, 2026 Tehran time. According to CoinGecko data, Solana traded around $97 over that period. EcoIran reported the rally followed unease in US bond markets after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a long-term Treasury bond buyback plan, a development that also pushed global gold prices and bitcoin toward their recent 100-day highs. CoinGecko data shows bitcoin gained roughly 22 percent over the same week, climbing toward the $79,000 range.
EcoIran
Bitcoin breaks above 81,000 dollars
According to Arzdigital, Bitcoin rose 4.18 percent over 24 hours in the early hours of Tuesday, Shahrivar 3, 1405 (August 25, 2026), climbing above 81,148 dollars before settling around 80,698 dollars. The rally lifted Bitcoin's total market value to about 1.62 trillion dollars, with daily trading volume reaching roughly 60 billion dollars. Some analysts see the move as a sign of the crypto market's positive trend returning.
Arzdigital
Goldman Sachs Forecasts Gold at $4,900 an Ounce by End of 2026
Goldman Sachs forecast gold at $4,900 an ounce by the end of 2026 in its latest analysis, according to a Mehr News Agency report published Monday, Shahrivar 2, 1405 (August 24, 2026). Global gold, up about 15 percent from its mid July low, is now trading around $4,600. Goldman Sachs warned of the effects of the options market: as gold nears levels where call option contracts are exercised, traders who sold those calls may be forced to buy physical gold to manage risk, amplifying the rally; conversely, a price pullback could sharply increase selling pressure. The bank said reduced market expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike, following the Fed's pause at its July meeting and weak US jobs and inflation data, have helped improve speculative positioning on Comex and boosted demand for gold ETFs.
Mehr News Agency, citing Goldman Sachs
Global Gold Reaches Its Highest Level Since Mid May
Global gold extended last week's rally in early trading on Monday, 24 August 2026 (2 Shahrivar 1405), reaching its highest level since mid May. Kitco, updated at 00:08 New York time the same day, showed a rate of 4,632.20 dollars an ounce. Trading Economics, in a live reading on 24 August, recorded the ounce at 4,641.17 dollars, up 0.73 percent, and Sahmino's own price board showed 4,634.72 dollars, up 0.59 percent, at 07:38 Tehran time. The main driver cited is market concern over US fiscal sustainability after an unexpected expansion of the Treasury's long dated bond buyback programme, which has pushed yields and the dollar lower. The dollar index stood at 98.854 in the Trading Economics live reading, roughly unchanged on the day but down 2.64 percent over the month. Markets are now waiting on US personal consumption expenditures inflation data and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole address. Neither had been released or delivered at the time of publication. The global ounce is the main reference for pricing gold and coins in the Tehran market.
Kitco
Oil Retreats Ahead of the US Treasury Secretary's Press Conference on New Iran Sanctions
Oil prices fell in early Asian trading on Monday, 24 August 2026 (2 Shahrivar 1405), with markets awaiting a press conference by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on a new sanctions package targeting Iran and the buyers and shippers of its oil. The decline follows a gain of more than 5 percent last week and is attributed mainly to profit taking. The size of the drop is reported differently by different feeds. Oilprice.com, in a dispatch timed 21:18 US Central on 23 August, put West Texas Intermediate at 85.18 dollars, down 2.16 percent, and Brent at 92.32 dollars, down 2.19 percent. Trading Economics, in a live reading on 24 August, recorded WTI at 85.62 dollars, down 1.66 percent. On that basis the fall should be treated as a range of roughly 1.5 to 2.2 percent. According to Oilprice.com, US Central Command says it has redirected 70 vessels and disabled 3 under the current naval blockade. No confirmed attack in the Strait of Hormuz was recorded in the 48 hours before that report. The oil price is the single most important external variable for Iran's foreign currency earnings and its budget.
Oilprice.com
Long Term Bond Yields in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan Hit Multi Decade Highs
According to Donya-e-Eqtesad, citing The Economist and published Sunday, Shahrivar 1, 1405 (August 23, 2026), the yield on 10-year US Treasury notes hit its highest level since January 2025 on August 18, and the 30-year yield briefly topped 5.3 percent, a level unseen since 2007. The US Treasury said on August 19 it will increase its purchases of long-term debt starting next month, a move Deutsche Bank analysts said reflects the government's growing concern over bond yields. Long-term yields in the UK, France and Germany have also hit their highest levels in more than a decade, and Japan's 30-year yield has moved close to its historic high. The Treasury also said US federal debt has topped 40 trillion dollars for the first time, equal to about 130 percent of last year's GDP, with the budget deficit estimated at around 6 percent of GDP. Per the report, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed and has kept US diesel prices elevated; fund managers surveyed by Bank of America expect Brent crude to average around 76 dollars a barrel by year end, but bond markets show far less confidence in that stability. Large technology companies have sold about 75 billion dollars in bonds to fund AI data center buildouts, which Goldman Sachs estimates has nearly doubled these companies' total debt load versus a year earlier.
Donya-e-Eqtesad, citing The Economist
Bitfinex: Bitcoin's Recent Rally Is More Spot Buying Than Leverage; $68,000 to $69,000 Is Key Support
According to Arzdigital, analysts at the Bitfinex exchange said in a report that bitcoin's recent rally to its highest levels in several months has been driven more by spot buying than by leveraged trading. Per the report, while bitcoin's price rose 10 to 11 percent, open interest increased by only 4 percent, which Bitfinex said shows the rally's main driver was genuine buyers rather than credit and leverage, which typically set the stage for sudden crashes. The report also cited $608.3 million in net inflows into bitcoin ETFs on August 20 (29 Mordad) as a sign of returning institutional demand. Bitfinex described the $68,000 to $69,000 range, where traders' average purchase price over the past five months sits, as the most important support level, saying that holding above that range would ease selling pressure. It also warned that a rise in transfers of profitable bitcoin to exchanges could lead to the largest profit taking wave of 2026.
Arzdigital
Binance Launches Direct AI Bot Trading System Built on Anthropic's Open Source MCP Protocol
According to Arzdigital, Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, announced the launch of a new protocol called Binance Agent OS, which lets AI models connect directly to the exchange's spot, margin and futures markets and trade without informal intermediaries. Per the report, the system runs on Anthropic's open source MCP protocol, and users can move assets into dedicated "AI sub accounts" to limit the risk from bot activity; Binance has placed limits on direct withdrawals by AI, but responsibility for losses from failed trades or liquidations still rests with the user. Arzdigital writes that Binance is not alone in this space, noting that at least five other major platforms, including Coinbase and Gemini, have introduced similar systems in the past 30 days. Analysts cited in the report flagged behavioral correlation as a key concern, warning that bots relying on the same underlying AI model could react in similar ways during moments of market stress.
Arzdigital
Ray Dalio, After US Debt Tops $40 Trillion: Buy Gold and a Little Bitcoin
According to Arzdigital, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, again stressed the importance of holding gold and bitcoin in an investment portfolio in a post on X after US federal debt passed the $40 trillion mark. He wrote: "I suggest you diversify your assets across asset classes and countries with strong financial statements and balance sheets that are not embroiled in internal political conflicts and external geopolitical conflicts, reduce the weightings of debt assets like bonds, and increase the weightings of gold and some bitcoin." Per Arzdigital, citing US Treasury Department data, total federal debt has risen by about $2.4 trillion in less than eight months. Dalio said allocating 10 to 15 percent of a portfolio to gold is necessary to manage risk during periods of fiscal strain, and while he said he still prefers gold for its long history and high liquidity among central banks, he also described bitcoin as an asset that operates outside conventional debt markets and as a hedge against monetary expansion and heavy government borrowing.
Arzdigital
After Hormuz Closed, Asian Economies Turned to Alternative Energy Routes
According to EcoIran, published Saturday, August 22, 2026 (31 Mordad 1405), before the war began, about 80 percent of Asia's oil imports and nearly 27 percent of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports transited the Strait of Hormuz. After the strait closed, countries more dependent on that route were forced to activate alternatives, including buying more oil and gas from the United States and Russia, drawing on strategic reserves, and using pipelines, ports outside the Persian Gulf, and longer shipping routes. Per the report, Japan managed part of the shock by drawing on strategic reserves while simultaneously increasing oil imports from the United States; China moved to cut oil consumption and expand electric vehicle use; and India significantly increased its oil imports from Russia. Indonesia also increased oil imports from Russia and pursued biofuel development, South Korea diversified its import sources, and Taiwan increased purchases from Australia and the United States and temporarily turned to coal to reduce its dependence on Qatari LNG. EcoIran writes that even if traffic through Hormuz fully returns to normal, Asia's energy trade will likely not return to its pre crisis state, since some of the new contracts and shifts in consumption patterns are expected to persist.
EcoIran
Brent Nears $94 as US Treasury Secretary Vows Toughest Sanctions in History on Iran
According to a Friday (August 21) Oilprice.com report citing Reuters, crude oil was on track for a second consecutive weekly gain; at the time of writing, Brent crude traded at $93.50 and WTI at $86.43 per barrel. The rise followed a Wednesday statement by President Trump about preparing "Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale" against Iran, and Thursday remarks by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, quoted by Reuters as saying: "It is a one-two punch. We have the blockade [on Iran], and we are going to have the toughest sanctions in history... It is going to work in Iran and we are going to collapse this regime." Details of the sanctions package are due Monday, and per Reuters, Washington is seeking support from China, the largest buyer of Iranian seaborne oil, though Beijing has repeatedly rejected sanctions as an effective tool. Ratings agencies BMI and Fitch both said they are revising their oil price outlooks given the latest developments in the Persian Gulf war.
Oilprice.com (via Reuters)
Gold Tops $4,596 for a Third Straight Weekly Gain as Silver and Platinum Jump Too
Gold rose to $4,596.90 an ounce on Friday, 30 Mordad 1405 (August 21, 2026), up 1.80 percent from the previous day and on course for a third straight weekly gain, according to Trading Economics, which put gold's monthly gain at 11.29 percent and its year-on-year gain at 36.28 percent. Silver climbed to $69.71 an ounce (up 2.40 percent on the day, about 5 percent for the week) and platinum topped $1,896. Iran's TGJU price network recorded spot gold at $4,598.57 (up 1.73 percent) and silver at $69.94 (up 2.66 percent) around the same hours, figures consistent with Trading Economics.\n\nKitco News quoted ByteTree CIO and founder Charlie Morris identifying the main driver as the US Treasury's plan, announced by Secretary Scott Bessent, to at least double its long-dated debt buyback rate, which he described as effectively a form of quantitative easing. Morris said the world's total above-ground gold supply is now worth about 77 percent of US debt, which recently hit $40 trillion, a ratio that has topped 100 percent several times in the past. Trading Economics added that rising oil prices, as the US prepares sweeping new sanctions against Iran amid a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, are underscoring inflation risk, while continued central bank buying, particularly by China, is also supporting gold.
Kitco News
Bitcoin Hits $79,241 as Spot ETF Inflows Set a 2026 Monthly Record
Bitcoin reached $79,241 on Friday, 30 Mordad 1405 (August 21, 2026), its highest level since June, before easing back to about $77,866, CoinPaprika data showed. That marks an 8.4 percent gain over 24 hours and 24 percent over the past seven days from a $73,009 session open. The price remains 38.3 percent below the all-time high of $126,173 set on October 6, 2025.\n\nAccording to Cointelegraph, citing SoSoValue data, US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $608.3 million in net inflows on Thursday, August 20, lifting weekly inflows above $1.6 billion and pushing August's total to $2.07 billion, a 2026 monthly record surpassing April's previous high of $1.97 billion. Spot Ether ETFs took in $220.8 million the same day, their largest daily inflow since October 2025. CoinPaprika, citing CoinGlass data, said about $3 billion in short positions were liquidated over 24 hours during the breakout. The rally, which began August 19 after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US would at least double its long-dated Treasury buyback ceiling, is now being reinforced by fresh institutional inflow data.
CoinPaprika
Bitcoin Tops $76,000 as Ethereum and Altcoins Rally Too
The global cryptocurrency market posted broad gains early Friday, 30 Mordad 1405 (August 21, 2026). According to Arzdigital, Bitcoin reached $76,619 at 11:37 Tehran time, up about 9.7 percent on the day and about 21.9 percent on the week; tgju.org recorded Bitcoin at $76,747 at the same time, consistent with Arzdigital's figure. The rally spread across other coins: Ethereum rose 5.7 percent to $2,376.5, XRP rose 19 percent to $1.324, and Cardano rose 14 percent to $0.2097.\n\nThe surge extends a rally that began Wednesday evening, 28 Mordad, after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced expanded buybacks of long-dated Treasury debt, which took Bitcoin from about $69,000 on Thursday, 29 Mordad, to its current level. Arzdigital separately reported that Ethereum balances on exchanges fell 15 percent over the past eleven weeks (through 27 Mordad), from 7.7 million to about 6.54 million units, a trend it said, citing analytics firm Santiment, reflects a preference among holders for long-term custody; over the same period Bitcoin exchange balances rose about 1.8 percent.
Arzdigital
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Returns to 5.26 Percent Despite Treasury's Buyback Pledge
US Treasury yields rose sharply on Thursday, 29 Mordad 1405 (August 20, 2026), according to TradingEconomics, reversing the previous day's decline that had followed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's announcement of expanded buybacks of long dated government debt. The 30-year yield climbed seven basis points to 5.26 percent, while the 10-year yield reached 4.71 percent, close to its highest level since early 2025. TradingEconomics data show the 30-year yield closed at 5.25 percent on 29 Mordad, up 0.12 points over the past month and 0.33 points higher than a year ago. The reversal suggests investors remain skeptical that the Treasury's plan, which aims to at least double liquidity support purchases of securities maturing in 10 to 30 years, will provide lasting relief for elevated borrowing costs. According to Ecoiran, the US 30-year yield has reached its highest level since 2007, while long term German and British bonds have hit records dating back to 2011 and 1998 respectively. Analysts attribute the global trend to three simultaneous forces: concern that oil prices driven higher by the US Iran war will keep inflation elevated, heavy government budget deficits, and a wave of corporate bond issuance to fund artificial intelligence investment that is pulling some demand away from government debt.
TradingEconomics.com
China's Shift to Western Russian Crude Squeezes India's Share as India's Oil Imports Hit a War Low
According to Oilprice.com, citing data from ship tracking firm Kpler reported by Reuters, China's seaborne imports of Russian crude are estimated at about 1.25 million barrels per day in August (Mordad), down from 1.423 million bpd in July but still among the highest levels since April. The shift comes as China's imports of Iranian oil remain crushed by the Middle East war and the US blockade, with China expected to receive just 340,000 barrels per day from Iran in August, roughly a third of the 1.14 million bpd it imported in March. China, which normally buys Russian ESPO crude from eastern ports, is now reaching farther west, with Russian crude loaded from European ports expected to account for 31 percent of China's seaborne Russian imports in August, up from 22 percent in June. That shift is cutting directly into India's traditional market, since India takes most of its Russian crude from those same western ports. India's Russian oil imports fell to an estimated 1.87 million bpd in August, sharply down from a record 2.79 million bpd in July. India's total crude imports also dropped to 4.17 million bpd, the lowest since the Iran war began, which could squeeze India's fuel exports to Asia in September as well.
Oilprice.com, citing Reuters and Kpler
Brent Tops $93 in a Fifth Straight Day of Gains Amid the US-Iran Impasse
Brent crude rose 1.95 percent to 93 dollars and 48 cents a barrel in early European trade on Thursday, August 20, 2026 (29 Mordad 1405), hitting a three week high, while US West Texas Intermediate rose 2 percent past 85 dollars to trade at 86 dollars and 12 cents. According to Oilprice, it was oil's fifth consecutive day of gains, coming after Trump announced an "unprecedented" economic pressure campaign against Iran and threatened countries helping Tehran. Concerns about stricter sanctions enforcement added to worries about supply risk in West Asia. Analysts said the crude market continues to underestimate the real supply disruption in fuel markets. Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank said the main stress is downstream, noting "crude is available, diesel is not." The US diesel crack spread hit triple digits for the first time ever this week, rising as high as 102 dollars a barrel on Monday.
Oilprice
Bitcoin Jumps Above $69,000 After US Treasury Doubles Bond Buybacks
The global cryptocurrency market rallied on Thursday, August 20, 2026 (29 Mordad 1405), with Bitcoin returning for the first time since early June to a level it had lost. According to Khabar Online, citing ISNA, Bitcoin rose about 8.06 percent in 24 hours to 69,327 dollars. The jump came immediately after the US Treasury said it would at least double the size of its long term government bond buybacks, a move the market read as a form of indirect quantitative easing that weakens the dollar. Per the report, short sellers were forced to buy to cover roughly 1.5 billion dollars of short positions, with about 700 million dollars of Bitcoin bought in a single minute. Ethereum rose about 17.5 percent over the past 24 hours, while Ripple and Solana each gained more than 10 percent, and Tether held near one dollar.
Khabar Online, citing ISNA
Global Gold Retreats 0.6 Percent on Profit Taking as US Debt Tops 40 Trillion Dollars for First Time
The spot price of global gold fell 0.6 percent on Thursday, August 20, 2026 (29 Mordad 1405), to 4,495.69 dollars an ounce, after earlier touching 4,525.79 dollars, its highest level since June 2. According to Boursenews, the pullback followed gold's more than four percent jump on Wednesday, as investors booked profits; US gold futures rose 0.2 percent to 4,553.30 dollars in the same session. Ilya Spivak, head of global macro at tastylive, said that after such a large jump, markets need to digest and consolidate the move, and that if prices hold above the 4,400 to 4,500 dollar range, gold's uptrend will likely continue. At the same time, total outstanding US government debt topped 40 trillion dollars for the first time. Edward Meir, an analyst at Marex, said growing concern over US fiscal stability and debt was a positive factor for gold prices. Citing Reuters and the CME FedWatch tool, traders now see a 67 percent probability the Federal Reserve holds rates steady next month against a 33 percent chance of a hike. Among other precious metals, silver rose 0.2 percent to 67.07 dollars, platinum fell 1.3 percent to 1,802.29 dollars, and palladium fell 0.2 percent to 1,328.06 dollars.
Boursenews, citing Reuters
Global Airfares Seen Rising 5 to 10 Percent in 2026 on Regional War Energy Disruption
According to Iran's IRNA news agency, citing Russia's RIA Novosti, the analytics firm Economics Tourism said in a report that average global airfares in 2026, even under a relatively favorable scenario, could run 5 to 10 percent above levels forecast before the outbreak of the West Asia conflict. The report, published Thursday, August 20, 2026 (29 Mordad 1405), added that if the conflict and energy supply disruption continue, international flight prices could rise a further 10 percent in 2027. The report said disruption to energy exports through the Strait of Hormuz has put significant pressure on oil and jet fuel prices, with jet fuel costs rising even faster than crude oil. Analysts said the added cost typically reaches ticket prices with a lag of several months; some airlines had cut summer ticket prices to stimulate demand.
IRNA, citing RIA Novosti
Global Gold Breaches $4,500 for the First Time in Two Months
The global gold price hit its highest level since early June early on Thursday, 29 Mordad 1405 (August 20, 2026), breaking out of a summer lull. According to Arzdigital, gold traded around 4,475 dollars that morning, more than 130 dollars above the prior day's dip, and went on to touch about 4,507 dollars. Analysts attributed the jump to the US Treasury's liquidity support announcement and a simultaneous weakening of the dollar. Data from Alanchand.com, updated shortly after, showed global gold trading around 4,499.97 dollars. Sahmino's own data recorded the global gold ounce rate at 07:29 Thursday at 4,499.88 dollars, down 0.45% from the prior day, indicating the metal eased slightly after its brief move above the 4,500 dollar level.
Arzdigital
Bitcoin and Ethereum Jump as US Treasury Boosts Debt Buybacks
Crypto markets rallied sharply on the evening of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 (28 Mordad 1405). According to Arzdigital, Bitcoin jumped nearly 7 percent over a few hours, nearing the $70,000 level. Data from prediction platform Polymarket showed the probability of Bitcoin reaching $70,000 by the end of August rising to 72 percent, a 43 point jump, after holding below 20 percent for weeks. Separately, Cointelegraph reported Bitcoin hit an 11 week high of about $68,500, attributing the rally to the US Treasury doubling the size of its long-end debt buybacks and improving market liquidity. According to Arzdigital, Ethereum jumped 8.72 percent within an hour to break above the $2,000 resistance level, reaching about $2,101. Its market capitalization rose to roughly $251 billion, keeping its position as the second largest cryptocurrency.
Arzdigital
Gold Jumps Nearly 3 Percent Ahead of Fed Minutes Release
Global precious metals markets rallied sharply on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 (28 Mordad 1405). According to Arzdigital, gold rose about 3 percent to near $4,490 an ounce ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve's July meeting minutes, while silver jumped 4 percent to $65.60. The gold to silver ratio fell from 68.5 to 67.9. CME FedWatch data showed the odds of a Fed rate hike, previously at 82 percent, falling to 30 percent following weaker than expected mid August consumer inflation data, while the real yield on 10 year US Treasuries fell to 2.41 percent, reducing the opportunity cost of holding gold. According to Trading Economics, gold's rally continued through Wednesday evening Tehran time, reaching $4,511 an ounce, up 4.06 percent on the day and its highest level since early June. Analysts point to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's speech at the Jackson Hole symposium on August 28 and the US August jobs report on September 4 as the next catalysts for the rate path.
Arzdigital
Oil rises for a fourth straight day as Brent reaches $91.55 a barrel
Global oil prices rose for a fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 (28 Mordad 1405). According to Bourse News, citing Reuters, Brent crude gained 55 cents, or 0.6 percent, to reach $91.55 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 58 cents to $85.52; both benchmarks are at their highest levels since July 24. Data from the American Petroleum Institute (API), as reported by Reuters, showed US crude and distillate inventories fell last week while gasoline stocks rose. Markets remain focused on the risk of supply disruption in the region: the US president has said no talks with Tehran are under way and that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains possible, while Iran and maritime tracking firms continue to report the route as blocked.
Bourse News, citing Reuters
Crude-Diesel Price Gap Widens to Extreme as European Diesel Nears $170
Jeff Currie, a senior commodities economist, told CNBC in an interview reported by Oilprice.com on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 (27 Mordad 1405), that while Brent crude was trading around $90.94 a barrel that day, the barrel equivalent price of European diesel had reached about $170, nearly double Brent. He said roughly 100 million to 120 million barrels of crude are stuck within the Strait of Hormuz, and reduced refinery runs in China have shifted the shortage from crude oil to refined products. Currie noted gasoline is up about 30 percent from a year earlier and diesel about 46 percent, directly pushing up transport and industrial costs.
Oilprice.com, citing CNBC
Global Gold Hits $4,354 an Ounce, Brent Crude Tops $91 a Barrel
Global gold and oil prices rose on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 (28 Mordad 1405), as the security crisis in the Strait of Hormuz continued. According to tgju.org, spot gold gained $17.07 (0.39 percent) to reach $4,354.28 an ounce as of 06:43 Tehran time. At the same time, Oilprice.com reported Brent crude trading near 0.7 percent higher above $91 a barrel, with WTI crude up a similar amount around $85.50. Oilprice noted that erratic tanker traffic through Hormuz and recent security incidents, including an official UK Maritime Trade Operations warning about an unidentified projectile striking a vessel transiting the strait, are keeping a geopolitical risk premium in oil prices.
Oilprice.com
Ethereum Developers Weigh Encrypting the Mempool to Counter Sandwich Bots
According to Arzdigital, published Tuesday, August 18, 2026 (27 Mordad 1405), Ethereum developers are examining a new defense against predatory trading bots that monitor pending transactions in the mempool before they are finalized on the blockchain to front run users, a practice known as a sandwich attack. In this scheme, bots buy ahead of a large detected purchase order and sell immediately after the resulting price move, at the user's expense. One of the main proposals, EIP-8184, known as LUCID, would require block builders to commit to sealed versions of transactions without knowing their contents, with decryption information released only after a transaction's position in the block is finalized. The proposal's authors say no known encryption scheme currently satisfies both quantum computer resistant security and optimal data size simultaneously, and researchers plan to review alternative proposals as well.
Arzdigital
Bitcoin Enters Accumulation Phase, VanEck Says It Points to a Bottoming, Not a Selloff
Asset manager VanEck said bitcoin is currently in an accumulation phase, a period in which long-term investors typically use price declines to add to their holdings. According to Arzdigital, the firm views current market behavior as more consistent with gradual bottom formation than the start of a fresh broad selloff. VanEck cited limited bitcoin supply, declining exchange reserves and rising purchases by long-term holders as evidence for this view. The firm cautioned, however, that being in an accumulation phase does not necessarily mean an uptrend is imminent, and continued volatility or even further short-term declines remain possible.
Arzdigital
Gold and Silver Retreat Globally as the Dollar Strengthens and Oil Extends Gains
Global markets moved in the opposite direction from the previous day on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 (27 Mordad 1405): investors turned risk averse, the dollar index strengthened, and oil prices extended their climb, while gold, silver and industrial metals fell. According to Ecoiran, the global gold price moved away from the 4,400 dollar mark, silver lost the 65 dollar level, and copper retreated more than one percent from its record high. Live data from Iran's tgju.org gold and currency information network showed, as of 23:35 Tehran time that evening, global gold trading around 4,355 dollars an ounce (down about 1.4 percent) and Brent crude around 91 dollars a barrel. Sahmino's own price data at the same time showed gold down 1.62 percent at 4,345 dollars an ounce and silver down 3.52 percent at 63.5 dollars. Domestically, the trend was the opposite: according to Ecoiran, the free market dollar rose to about 188,000 tomans and the Emami gold coin price crossed above 191 million tomans. Tehran's stock market gave back part of the previous day's gains and recorded net capital outflows.
Ecoiran
In a Rare Day, Bitcoin Outperforms the S&P 500
According to Arzdigital, published on Tuesday, 18 August 2026 (27 Mordad 1405), Bitcoin posted a rare day of sharply outperforming the S&P 500 on Monday, 17 August (26 Mordad). While Bitcoin climbed to around 64,000 dollars, the Wall Street benchmark fell 0.52 percent, a divergence the report called Bitcoin's best daily performance in more than a month. Per Sahmino's own recorded data, Bitcoin traded at 64,871 dollars as of 19:38 Tehran time, up 0.8 percent on the day. Arzdigital, citing analysis from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode, said Bitcoin has outperformed the S&P 500 on only about one third of trading days over the past three months, despite historically moving in high correlation with the equity rally. Analysts attributed the relative underperformance to capital flowing into Wall Street's AI stock rally and to Bitcoin's four year cycle entering a bearish phase after its roughly 126,000 dollar peak last October.
Arzdigital, citing Glassnode
Global Gold Retreats as Oil Prices Rise Amid Escalating Regional Tensions
According to Boursenews, published on Tuesday, 18 August 2026 (27 Mordad 1405) at 14:48 local time, global spot gold fell 0.5 percent to about 4,450 dollars an ounce as regional tensions escalated and oil prices rose. Per Sahmino's own recorded data, the decline continued, with the ounce reaching 4,395.16 dollars by 15:29 local time, while the same Boursenews report put Brent crude at 91.54 dollars a barrel. Separately, Trading Economics reported earlier the same morning that global gold had fallen 0.4 percent to about 4,399 dollars an ounce. Market analysts attribute the rise in oil prices to persistent geopolitical risk around the Strait of Hormuz, which in recent days has involved the halting of several tankers and a reported maritime incident.
Boursenews
Global gold hits session high Monday evening as the US dollar weakens
Global gold (XAU/USD) reached $4,427 an ounce on the evening of Monday, August 17, 2026, up about $51.5 (1.2%) from the previous day's close, with an intraday high of $4,427.66. The figures were reported by tgju.org and are consistent with Sahmino's own feed, which showed $4,418 in the same window. Silver also gained in tandem, rising close to 2% to around $65.9 an ounce over the same period. In the domestic market, one gram of 18 karat gold reached about 19,229,200 rial (roughly 19 million 229 thousand toman) today, up about 190,000 toman from the previous day. The rise coincided with a relatively weaker US dollar and rising tensions over the Strait of Hormuz.
tgju.org
Brent crude breaks above $90 a barrel, up more than 2.5% amid Hormuz tensions
Brent crude broke above $90 a barrel on the evening of Monday, August 17, 2026, trading near $90.9, up more than 2.5% (about $2.4) from the previous day. According to tgju.org, Brent's intraday high today reached $91.08, a level consistent with Oilprice.com's reading of $90.77, up 2.54%. The rise came as rhetoric between Iran and the United States over the Strait of Hormuz intensified, even as the US president had claimed earlier the same day that oil was flowing out of the region at an increasing pace and prices were set to fall.
tgju.org
Brent Crude Nears $89.40 as UAE Accuses Iran of a Third ADNOC Tanker Attack
According to a Reuters report published by Khabar Online on Monday, 26 Mordad 1405 (August 17, 2026), Brent crude rose about one percent to 89.40 dollars a barrel, trading most recently up 72 cents, or 0.81 percent, at 89.20 dollars. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 44 cents to 82.83 dollars a barrel. Both benchmarks had risen more than 5 percent last week following reports of attacks on tankers managed by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the Strait of Hormuz and an attack on a Saudi Aramco refinery. The UAE's state news agency, WAM, said the UAE has accused Iran of attacking a third ADNOC managed tanker, which was transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, 23 Mordad (August 14). The UAE had previously held Iran responsible for two other incidents involving ADNOC tankers on the evening of Thursday, 22 Mordad. Data from ship tracking firm Kepler showed maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell sharply over the weekend, with only five cargo ships crossing the strait on Saturday.
Khabar Online, citing Reuters
Global Gold Rises to $4,395 as Dollar Weakens; Fed Rate Hike Odds Fall to 30%
According to Bourse News, citing Tasnim News Agency and Reuters, gold prices edged higher on Monday, 26 Mordad 1405 (August 17, 2026), as the dollar weakened and recent economic data reduced expectations for a US interest rate hike next month. Spot gold rose about 0.4 percent to 4,395 dollars an ounce, after hitting its highest level in more than two months last week. US gold futures for December delivery rose 0.3 percent to 4,448.10 dollars, while the US dollar index fell 0.1 percent. Per the CME Group's FedWatch tool, traders now put the probability of a Fed rate hike at the September meeting at 30 percent, down from 47 percent a month earlier; markets are also awaiting the release of the Fed's July meeting minutes on Wednesday. Among other metals, spot silver rose 1.4 percent to 65.53 dollars, platinum gained 0.3 percent to 1,752.36 dollars, and palladium rose 1.6 percent to 1,333.35 dollars.
Boursenews, citing Tasnim and Reuters
Brent Crude Edges Up to $88.60 as Tanker Traffic Through Hormuz Slows
According to Bourse News, oil prices rose on Monday, 26 Mordad 1405 (August 17, 2026), as fading hopes for progress in US Iran peace talks and slower tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz revived geopolitical risk concerns in the market. Brent crude rose about 10 cents to 88.60 dollars a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell about 20 cents to 82.19 dollars a barrel. Data from ship tracking firm Kepler showed vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slowed over the weekend, with only five cargo ships crossing the strait on Saturday and none recorded on Sunday, compared with 31 ships the previous weekend. Priyanka Sachdeva, head of market insights at Phillip Nova in Singapore, said oil prices have now largely reversed their early August lows, but that room for further gains looks limited from here unless there is clear evidence of escalating tension in the Strait of Hormuz, particularly tangible damage to tankers or oil infrastructure.
Boursenews
US China Inflation Gap Reaches Bond Markets After Strait of Hormuz Shock
According to Bourse News, the disruption to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which pushed global oil prices to near 120 dollars a barrel, has had starkly different inflation effects on the United States and China. Per an estimate from the Dallas Federal Reserve, a quarter-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz could raise annual US inflation in 2026 by about 0.6 percentage points; the yield on 10-year US Treasury notes reached around 4.7 percent in early August 2026. By contrast, China's consumer inflation was just 1 percent in June 2026, as weak domestic demand and a 15.9 percent year-on-year drop in pork prices offset part of the energy pressure. China's 10-year government bond yield stood at about 1.71 percent in early August 2026, nearly three percentage points below the comparable US yield, a gap that keeps financing costs lower for the Chinese government and companies.
Boursenews
SafePal Wallet Data Breach Exposes Purchase Details of 39,798 Users
SafePal, the hardware wallet maker, said in an official statement today, Monday, 26 Mordad 1405 (August 17, 2026), that a security flaw had exposed the personal information of nearly 39,798 users. According to ArzDigital, the flaw stemmed from an authentication error in one of its order tracking plugins and exposed users' names, emails, mailing addresses, phone numbers and purchase details from March 2025 to April 2026. SafePal stressed that sensitive data such as recovery phrases, private keys, wallet passwords and bank account details were not exposed and that user assets remain fully secure. The company said the flaw has now been fixed, it has cut its personal data retention period to 90 days, and it has identified and blocked more than 30 phishing websites and links tied to the incident. SafePal warned users to never enter their recovery phrase on any website, since the company will never request one.
ArzDigital
World Gold Council CEO: Bitcoin Will Eventually Fall to Zero
David Tait, CEO of the World Gold Council (WGC), predicted in remarks that recirculated widely on social media again this week that bitcoin's price will eventually fall to zero. According to ArzDigital, Tait made the comments in an earlier interview with David Lin at the Consensus Miami conference, saying: "My personal opinion on bitcoin is that it will go to zero... that's just my personal opinion and my instinct as a trader." He argued that instead of acting as a hedge, bitcoin shows a strong correlation with risk assets and equity indexes during periods of financial market turmoil, while gold continues to be favored as a safe haven by central banks during recession fears and geopolitical shocks. Tait also distinguished bitcoin from stablecoins, saying stablecoins have a clear use in payments due to their price stability. The comments come as the World Gold Council is simultaneously developing infrastructure to tokenize gold by 2026. The prediction reflects the personal view of the head of a gold industry body, not a consensus among market analysts.
ArzDigital
Coinbase Builds an AI Agent Payment Layer Settled in USDC Stablecoin
According to ArzDigital, Coinbase is developing an AI based payment layer that will let autonomous agents identify the services they need, pay for them in USDC stablecoin, and use them without direct human involvement. Under the plan, AI agents would be able to decide, negotiate and finalize payment on their own. Coinbase said it chose USDC as the settlement currency to ensure transaction speed, security and transparency.
ArzDigital
Bitcoin Tests Key $62,500 Support Ahead of the Weekend
According to ArzDigital on Saturday, August 15, 2026 (24 Mordad 1405), the crypto market faced mounting sell pressure heading into the Gregorian weekend. Bitcoin, trading around $62,900, is testing the key $62,500 support that marks the floor of a five week trading range. Data from the Bitfinex exchange shows about 1.79 million bitcoin, roughly 9 percent of circulating supply, was bought in the $62,000 to $65,000 range, making that band a breakeven point for a large share of traders. Despite upbeat US inflation data, bitcoin failed six separate attempts between August 5 and 10 to hold above $65,000 resistance, and spot bitcoin ETFs recorded outflows of more than $289 million over the same period. ArzDigital's analysts warn that escalating Persian Gulf tensions combined with thinner weekend liquidity could break the $62,500 support, sending the price first to $60,000 and then toward lower levels.
ArzDigital