Kashkari dissent highlights inflation risks from Iran conflict, complicates Fed policy

## Market Snapshot Fed rate cuts for 2026 are currently unresolved with significant uncertainty. For the June and July meetings, interest rate decrease probabilities are 2.9% and 88.5% YES, respectively. The dissent at the April meeting market remains unresolved. ## Key Takeaways – Kashkari’s dissent appears to suggest heightened inflation concerns due to the Iran…

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Bithumb wins court stay, dodges six-month suspension blow

South Korea’s Seoul Administrative Court has granted Bithumb a temporary reprieve from a six-month suspension, allowing the exchange to continue operating while the case proceeds. Summary Seoul Administrative Court has paused Bithumb’s six-month suspension, allowing operations to continue until a final ruling. Regulators imposed a 36.8 billion won fine after identifying about 6.65 million cases…

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OKX Launches Agent Payments Protocol to Power the Full Business Lifecycle of AI Agents

The cryptocurrency exchange’s new open standard moves AI commerce well beyond simple transfers — introducing negotiation, escrow, metering, and dispute resolution into a single unified framework. Crypto exchange OKX has unveiled the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard designed to give artificial intelligence agents the ability to conduct full commercial transactions autonomously — from…

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