Munster: US-Iran agreement electronically signed on Sunday

On June 15th, HTX market data shows Bitcoin bounced back, pushing past the $67,000 mark and notching a 4.97% gain over the past 24 hours.

June 15 – Green energy infrastructure startup TAR announced Wednesday it has closed a $27 million seed funding round to develop a modular, plug-and-play power system for data centers, aimed at solving the power and deployment bottlenecks plaguing AI-era data centers. The solution delivers near-24/7 local power via a mix of solar, wind, battery storage, and natural gas backup generators, cutting reliance on the public grid to skip common hurdles like lengthy grid connection queues, approval delays, and fluctuating power prices. A TAR co-founder said the core approach is drastically shortening energy system deployment cycles through factory prefabrication, pre-assembly, and pre-testing, enabling “rapid deployment” for data centers. The system has delivered around 10MW of stable power in pilots, with plans to scale to over 200MW of steady-state load capacity by 2027. The company’s first customer is an undisclosed “neo-cloud” service provider, as TAR targets delivering a faster energy d

June 15. Investment bank Benchmark’s latest research report notes that a proposal from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to repeal Rules 611 and 610(e) under Regulation NMS could emerge as the “most transformative regulatory shift” impacting crypto and tokenized asset market structure in 2026. Announced on June 11, the proposal aims to scrap nearly 20-year-old safeguards for U.S. stock trading and restrictions on quote activities. The SEC says the move is designed to lower trading costs, boost market competition, and create more room for technological innovation. Benchmark’s analysis explains that current Rule 611 (the Order Protection Rule) requires trades to align with the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO), while Rule 610(e) curbs “locked/crossed quote” scenarios. These mechanisms work smoothly with traditional order-matching systems but place structural limits on the automated market maker (AMM) model used in decentralized finance (DeFi). The report points out th

June 15 – A senior executive from hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor is cautioning that the crypto industry’s push to bring Bitcoin into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) could undermine the sector’s core principles over the long term. During the BTC Prague event, the company’s Chief Business Officer Danny Sanders noted that while the global crypto user base stands at roughly 600 million, only about 10% of those users hold their assets via self-custody, with hardware wallet users totaling just 12 to 13 million. Sanders highlighted the U.S. physically-backed Bitcoin ETF, which has attracted over $53 billion in cumulative inflows since its 2024 launch, as a sign of growing institutional allocation to Bitcoin. But he warned this trend might weaken users’ tendency to hold their own private keys directly. Self-custody is a foundational feature of Bitcoin’s design, Sanders emphasized, though he acknowledged user experience and security gaps remain major barriers. Most people still prefe

June 15 — Leslie Falconio, Head of Taxable Fixed Income Strategy at UBS Global Wealth Management, said that after the U.S. and Iran announced an agreement, oil prices tumbled sharply, which in turn has strengthened the U.S. Treasury market and lessened pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year. Falconio noted, “Even before the ceasefire deal was reached, oil prices had already started to drop, but yields on the 2-year U.S. Treasury note kept going up because the market had built in an almost 100% chance of a December rate hike. Now that oil prices are falling, the market is slowly backing out of those rate hike expectations—and as a result, 2-year Treasury yields are starting to decline.” This week brings Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s first interest rate decision meeting. Earlier, soaring oil prices had reignited inflation concerns, pushing more FOMC members to speak in favor of a rate hike this year. Falconio expects the FOMC to formally ditch its dovish stance a

June 15 – PeckShield Alert, a blockchain security firm, has flagged an attack on Thetanuts Finance, with initial estimated losses totaling roughly $2.1 million. Per reports, approximately $2 million worth of options tokens were recovered via a white-hat hacker intervention. The attacker swapped around $10,500 in USDC for about 60 ETH, while still holding roughly $34,000 worth of options tokens denominated in USDC. Full details of the incident remain under verification, and no official comprehensive postmortem report or vulnerability disclosure has been released to date.