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Bitcoin’s Iran relief rally now faces a BOJ test as Japan weighs a 31-year rate high and a bond-taper twist.
Gino Matos 7 min read 
From DeFi vaults to BlackRock’s new income ETF and Metaplanet’s Japan push, finance is turning Bitcoin into a yield product, even though the yield still has to come from somewhere else.
Strategy’s latest purchase lifted its holdings to 846,842 BTC, but the company’s BTC Yield fell to 12.5% after another round of common stock sales.
The stock climbed after its record IPO as investors piled into shares, tokenized equities and futures tied to Musk’s space company.
Trump’s Iran agreement lifted crypto and equities, though a hawkish signal from Kevin Warsh could quickly stall the recovery.
The world’s first trillion-dollar personal fortune now exceeds the market value of crypto excluding Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is back near $64,000 after ETF flows flipped positive, but fragile Iran headlines and next week’s Fed decision could turn the weekend bounce into a trap.
The US move against Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shows how quickly frontier models can become national security assets.
The network is adjusting to weaker hashrate, yet miner income remains under pressure as several indicators move deeper into stress territory.
