The Israel Defense Forces warned Iranian civilians to stay off trains Monday before striking railway lines, bridges, and missile sites across Iran in the latest wave of coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrikes tied to a looming deadline from President Donald Trump.

As of April 7, 2026, just after 8 a.m. Eastern time, bitcoin hovered just above the $68,000 zone with mixed signals across the 1-hour, 4-hour and daily charts.

Bernstein maintained an Outperform rating on Figure Technology Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR) with a $67 price target, implying more than 100% upside from the stock’s current trading range near $31 to $32.

Japan’s crypto market is shifting from retail frenzy to regulated finance. New stablecoin rules, tougher disclosure plans, and a formal review of crypto as an investment asset suggest the country is trying to build a market institutions can actually use.

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Tokyo has real momentum, but its institutional crypto case will not be built on speculation alone. Japan’s strongest edge is emerging in compliant financial rails and regulated infrastructure, though speed, product breadth, and global liquidity still lag rival hubs.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins told attendees at a Nashville policy summit Monday that a sweeping crypto rulemaking proposal is sitting at the White House for final review before going out for public comment.

Japan is moving from a punitive miscellaneous income tax of up to 55% to a flat 20.315% separate taxation regime, aligning crypto with traditional stocks. The reform introduces a three-year loss carryforward, allowing traders to offset gains against past losses, a major step toward treating crypto as a standard financial instrument.

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman emphasized that with the arrival of superintelligence, society will have to experience a shift to preserve the social order and rebalance the economy to support the changes needed for citizens to maintain stability even when partially displaced.

A handful of banking institutions would be trialing this token to streamline interbank settlements, taking advantage of the benefits JPM Coin can bring in terms of costs, speed, and efficiency, as regulators evaluate lifting the ban on banks offering crypto services.

Japan’s regulators are raising concerns over disclosure gaps, investor risks, and speculative trading, as the Financial Services Agency signals a more cautious approach that could tighten oversight without limiting market innovation.

India is intensifying scrutiny of cryptocurrency activity as tax authorities flag system-estimated income that may not reflect actual profits, issuing reassessment notices that could reopen past filings and pressure traders to justify discrepancies.

Peter Berezin, chief global strategist at BCA Research, says the Iran conflict has pushed U.S. recession odds to 40% and warns that a sustained oil supply shock could send crude prices to $200 a barrel, hitting everything from fertilizer to plastics across the global supply chain. Risks are even higher for other nations.

The Solana Foundation and Asymmetric Research launched STRIDE on Monday, a tiered security program built to protect decentralized finance ( DeFi) protocols across the Solana ecosystem with ongoing evaluations, threat monitoring, and formal verification. The initiative follows the Drift Protocol hack that saw $286 million pilfered in 12 minutes last week.

Bitcoin ETFs managed a modest weekly gain despite sharp swings, while ether extended its outflow trend. Solana and XRP also declined in a shortened trading week.