The U.S. and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other and will meet this week in Qatar to resolve a dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, easing a geopolitical flashpoint that has whipsawed bitcoin and oil prices throughout the year.

Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he has no intention of returning as chief executive of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, telling an interviewer that the company no longer needs him at the helm.

U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly withholding his signature from a sweeping housing bill that would bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) through 2030, tying the measure to a separate voter-eligibility law that the Senate has already rejected.

A new Chinese military study led by Gao Tianyun at the National University of Defense Technology in Nanjing describes how a U.S. carrier strike group could be tracked and targeted from 3,000 kilometers away, roughly the distance from Shanghai to Guam. The concept relies on a network of satellites, drones, radar aircraft, submarines, ships, and signal intelligence to coordinate mass missile salvos, challenging the U.S. practice of pushing carriers farther from Asia for safety.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Brazil proposes a 24-hour holding period for stablecoin remittances, two illegal bitcoin miners get convicted in Paraguay, and Binance pledges a $3 million donation to earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela.

Two of the largest Chinese wealth funds, Wealspring Asset and Banxia, have warned about the impending doom of the global AI boom, stating that the so-called bubble may burst in the near future, as AI companies still lack a long-term moat for their operation.

21Shares says its 2026 crypto forecasts are showing uneven progress, with prediction markets and Ethereum scaling ahead of pace while ETPs, stablecoins, DeFi, digital asset treasuries, and tokenized assets trail ambitious targets.

House lawmakers spotlighted bitcoin as a challenge to authoritarian governments after Representative William Timmons said cryptocurrency could mark the “beginning of the end” of authoritarian rule. At a House roundtable, participants discussed financial repression, China’s digital-currency ambitions, and U.S. leadership in digital-asset policy.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse outlined XRP’s role in institutional payments, citing $16 trillion in annual payments and clearing activity across businesses Ripple added through acquisitions, where digital asset usage remains minimal.

Ripple pushed its CLARITY Act campaign through Washington with a branded truck as Senate pressure mounted over crypto market rules.

Bitcoin is trading near $60,000 in late June 2026, more than 50% below its 2025 all-time high above the $126,000 zone, and eight competing forces are determining whether that floor holds or breaks.

Argentina’s cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, stressed that he left his position after media allegations and an ongoing probe over undeclared assets, which he revealed came from early Bitcoin investments that he kept off the books. Nonetheless, Bitcoin experts have found inconsistencies in his story.

With bitcoin languishing around the psychologically important $60,000 mark, the race to six figures has once again become crypto’s favorite guessing game. Instead of speculating or guessing when BTC will reclaim $100,000, we turned to today’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) models to see which one believes the next milestone is closest, and which expects investors to wait the longest.

Prediction market traders are pricing some of the most bearish bitcoin outlooks of 2026, with more than $75 million in combined volume flowing into Polymarket and Kalshi contracts that see a $50,000 floor before a $100,000 ceiling.

Lawrence Lepard, investment manager and author of “The Big Print,” told RE:Bitcoin host Chase Palmieri that the U.S. Federal Reserve under chair Kevin Warsh is running a deliberate deception on markets, and that bitcoin near $59,000 sits in one of its cheapest historical positions relative to the power law model.