Today in crypto, Coin Bureau analyst Nic Puckrin says the week-old Bitcoin recovery is fragile.Stablecoin adoption in Europe is shifting from strategy to execution. And, push notifications can create a backdoor, breaching user privacy, says Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov.
BTC recovery fragile, Iran war fallout to 'dominate' markets in 2026: Analyst
Now almost a week old, the Bitcoin (BTC) recovery is “fragile” as the crypto market faces geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds from the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Nic Puckrin, a crypto market analyst and founder of the Coin Bureau media outlet.
“Even if the war ends now, its repercussions will likely be the story of 2026, and certainly the dominant narrative for Q2. I don’t expect to see a rate cut until late Q3 or Q4, if at all,” Puckrin told Cointelegraph.
If Bitcoin closes the week above $71,000, it could signal continued upside for BTC, with resistance forming around the $74,000 level, he said.
The ongoing conflict hascaused an inflationary spike, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index report, published on Friday, chilling hopes of further interest rate cuts in 2026. Rate cuts or credit easing tend to stimulate asset prices.
Banks, corporates in Europe ‘actively selecting partners’ for stablecoin push
Banks and corporates across Europe are moving beyond exploration and are now actively selecting infrastructure partners to support stablecoin adoption, according to Lamine Brahimi, co-founder and managing partner at crypto custody technology provider Taurus.
Brahimi told Cointelegraph that eighteen months ago, most conversations were still educational, focused on understanding stablecoins and their risks. Today, firms with board-level approval are preparing to go live. He said the introduction of Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) has accelerated that transition by replacing fragmented national rules with a single regulatory regime.
“In the past twelve months alone some of Europe's most stringent financial institutions are all arriving at the same conclusion, digital assets, including stablecoins, belong inside the existing banking stack, not beside it,” he said.
Corporate treasury teams are driving much of the demand. Initially focused on payments and settlement, companies are looking to use stablecoins to move funds faster, reduce costs and operate outside traditional banking hours, Brahimi said.
Pavel Durov warns push notifications could compromise privacy
Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging application, sounded the alarm on data stored in push notification logs on users’ devices, which could be used to breach privacy and gain access to message histories.
Durov cited recent reports that forensic analysts at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were able to retrieve messages sent on the privacy-preserving messaging application Signal by accessing push notification system logs on an Apple iPhone. Durov said:
“Turning off notification previews won’t make you safe if you use those applications, because you never know whether the people you message have done the same.”
The incident shows that online user privacy can still be compromised, despite end-to-end encryption, if applications generate metadata and other information that can circumvent privacy-preserving features.
