Hormuz Crisis Turns Crypto Into Wartime Financial Infrastructure
The naval blockade of Hormuz is forcing commodity traders onto stablecoins, oil onto DeFi, and capital into privacy coins. Three parallel shifts reshaping crypto's role.
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