An Iranian announcement was enough to move two markets at once. On one side, oil fell sharply. On the other, bitcoin gained altitude, passing above 76,000 dollars with an intraday peak around 78,000 dollars on Friday.
Europe no longer wants to watch the stablecoin market from the sidelines. In Paris, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure clearly pushed for more stablecoins pegged to the euro, with a simple idea behind this signal: to reduce the continent's dependence on payment infrastructures dominated by the dollar and non-European actors.
The crypto market is going through a zone of severe turbulence. In the first quarter of 2026, trading volumes on centralized platforms plummeted by 39%, confirming what many feared: a well-established crypto winter. And the signals for the second quarter are hardly reassuring.
The great powers reveal themselves in crises, and BRICS may have just missed their moment. While the war involving Iran could have marked a turning point, the bloc remained silent, unable to display a common position. This silence raises questions about its real credibility in face of its global ambitions. Behind the image of a counter-power to the West, this sequence mainly exposes deep divisions and structural weaknesses that rhetoric is no longer enough to mask.
As digital uses evolve, a question arises at Paris Blockchain Week 2026: how to simplify value exchanges in a world where banking systems and blockchain infrastructures coexist? OZAPAY provides a concrete answer with a hybrid super app that aims to streamline payments, regardless of the system used. Between traditional finance and crypto, users still face unnecessary complexity: multiplicity of tools, fragmented experiences, dependence on intermediaries. This is precisely the area the Parisian fintech has chosen to invest in.
Wall Street had long sniffed crypto like a dubious cheese. Here comes Schwab finally laying the table, visible fees, and inviting 39 million clients to the well-mannered feast.
Bitcoin under pressure: the most vulnerable miners are massively liquidating their reserves. A worrying dynamic for the crypto market.
Anthropic accelerates its strategy with the imminent launch of Claude Opus 4.7, a model accompanied by a tool capable of generating complete digital products from simple instructions. This advance marks a clear repositioning towards automated production platforms. In parallel, the existence of a more advanced internal model with sensitive capabilities raises questions about the uses and limits of these systems.
A secret meeting between the Fed and the Treasury, an AI model capable of hacking banking systems, and risks that could shake the global economy. Anthropic becomes an absolute security problem for regulators and banks.
