Day: 8 April 2026

Just hours after news broke of a tentative two‑week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, Iranian authorities began rolling out details of how the crucial Strait of Hormuz might reopen. Oil tankers may have to settle passage fees using Bitcoin and other digital currencies.  Under the proposed system, Iran ...

Solstice Finance has introduced a multi-strategy decentralized finance framework designed to consolidate real-world asset yield generation, derivatives exposure, and leveraged DeFi strategies into a single protocol structure. The platform is built around USX, a dollar-pegged settlement asset that serves as the entry point for all yield strategies. Users deposit USX ...

London, UK, 8th April 2026, Chainwire

Four newly created crypto wallets generated a combined $663K in profits on the prediction platform Polymarket after correctly wagering on a U.S.–Iran ceasefire, raising fresh concerns about potential insider trading in decentralized markets. Blockchain data shows the wallets were created and funded on Tuesday, with no prior transaction history before ...

A group of leading Swiss financial institutions, including UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), has launched a joint initiative to test a Swiss franc-backed stablecoin within a regulated sandbox environment. The project, developed in collaboration with Swiss Stablecoin AG, aims to explore real-world applications ...

The upcoming HIP-4 upgrade on Hyperliquid is expected to make USDH the exclusive settlement currency for prediction market outcome contracts, reinforcing its role as a core liquidity asset within the ecosystem. Under the new framework, all prediction market settlements will be executed in USDH rather than USDC, creating a structural ...

Bitcoin futures open interest has fallen dramatically from $42 billion in October 2025 to just $21 billion currently, indicating a significant reset in market positioning. Markus Thielen’s latest chart shows this sharp decline in open interest alongside a volatile funding rate that has swung from -12.6% to +7.1% in recent ...

Gate.io has expanded its TradFi-style derivatives suite with the listing of 25 new contracts across forex, indices, metals, and commodities, further deepening its push into multi-asset trading alongside crypto markets. Some of the newly added financial tools include currency pairs such as CHFSGD, EURPLN, USDBRL, USDKRW, and USDPLN, as well ...

Belize City, Belize, 8th April 2026, Chainwire