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The Iran conflict has become an unexpected stress test for financial infrastructure, and according to analyst Huang writing in CoinDesk, crypto markets passed with surprising marks. While traditional exchanges struggled with volatility and access disruptions, decentralized systems kept running, raising serious questions about where resilience actually lives in modern finance.
Shifting to Washington, the Clarity Act has cleared the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support, putting a formal crypto market structure bill within striking distance of a full Senate floor vote. The legislation aims to draw clearer lines between securities and commodities in the digital asset space, though an ethics debate is already forming around how members with crypto holdings should handle that vote.
And Google is quietly testing a significant change to its free storage offering. New accounts may see their initial free tier drop from fifteen gigabytes to just five, with the full fifteen requiring additional security measures. Google confirmed the test without announcing it publicly, framing it as an account security initiative — though users are understandably reading it as a push toward paid tiers.
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