Key Takeaways

Total crypto market gained over 3% Wednesday on ceasefire news.
Iran named three ceasefire violations within the first 24 hours.
Bitcoin is down 1.02% with altcoins off 3% to 5.5%.
Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed with zero merchant ships transiting.
Islamabad talks still scheduled Saturday but Iran calls further negotiations “unreasonable”.

Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement between the US and Iran sent the total crypto market cap up more than 3% in a single session. Almost everything was green. Bitcoin pushed above $71,000. Ethereum touched $2,280. Altcoins that had been bleeding for weeks recovered sharply as the prospect of a de-escalating Middle East and a reopened Strait of Hormuz gave traders a reason to buy.

By Thursday morning, Iran had accused the United States and Israel of breaking the agreement within 24 hours of signing it. The gains reversed. The uncertainty came back with them.

Why Iran Says the Deal Is Already Broken

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf named three specific violations. First, Israel launched what reports describe as its largest coordinated strikes on Lebanon since the war began, killing hundreds in Beirut and surrounding areas. Iran maintains the ceasefire required an end to hostilities against its regional allies including Hezbollah. The US position is the opposite – Vice President Vance and President Trump have stated the deal only covered direct US-Iran hostilities, not Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. That is not a negotiating gap. It is a foundational disagreement about what was signed.

Second, Tehran alleges a drone breached Iranian airspace after the truce began. Third, the White House reaffirmed its red line on uranium enrichment had not changed, which Iran reads as a direct violation of the nuclear terms it understood to be part of the framework.

The Strait of Hormuz, whose reopening was the single most market-relevant term of the deal, remains effectively closed. Marine tracking data shows near-zero merchant ships transiting as of Thursday morning. The IRGC warned any vessel crossing without Iranian permission would be targeted and destroyed. Reports indicate Iran is demanding a toll of one dollar per barrel of oil payable in cryptocurrency, a demand the Trump administration has explicitly rejected.

The market priced Hormuz reopening on Wednesday. Hormuz did not reopen.

What It Did to Prices

The reversal was sharpest where Wednesday’s gains were largest. Ethereum is down 3.1% to $2,180. Solana lost 3.4% to $81.9. XRP fell 3.2% to $1.3. Avalanche and SUI are both off nearly 5%, giving back more than the ceasefire announcement delivered on the way up. Bitcoin absorbed the shock with the smallest loss at 1%, now trading at $70,900. Tron is the only top-ten asset in the green, up 0.40%.

This is not panic. It is the market removing a premium it added on an assumption that proved wrong within one trading session.

Four Outcomes That Will Set Crypto’s Direction

Friday’s US CPI print and Saturday’s Islamabad talks do not operate independently. They interact. The combination of where oil prices go and what CPI shows creates four distinct scenarios for crypto markets, and only one of them is clearly bullish.

Islamabad fails and oil pushes above $115. If Iran formally declares the ceasefire void before Saturday or talks collapse without agreement on Lebanon and Hormuz, the supply shock that closed the strait intensifies. Oil above $115 is not a forecast, it is the arithmetic of one-fifth of global oil and gas supply remaining blocked. For the Fed, an oil shock at this level makes any rate cut conversation impossible. Cutting into a supply-driven inflation surge risks embedding higher price expectations permanently. For crypto, this is the most bearish combination available: risk-off conditions, a stronger dollar, Fed paralysis, and the removal of the remaining ceasefire premium. Bitcoin’s next meaningful support sits around $67,000 to $68,000. ETH returns to the $2,060 pre-ceasefire floor.

Oil above $115 and Friday CPI comes in hot. The stagflation scenario. The Fed cannot cut and cannot credibly signal cuts at any near-term meeting. A hot CPI print with oil already elevated tells the market that next month’s reading could be worse, not better, as energy prices filter through the data. Risk assets get no relief from the CPI number because the oil signal overwhelms it. Crypto sells further. This is the scenario where Wednesday’s gains are not just reversed but extended to the downside.

Oil above $115 and Friday CPI comes in cool. The ambiguity scenario. A cool print with oil at $115 gives the Fed nothing actionable, energy costs are a leading inflation indicator and the print reflects last month’s conditions, not next month’s. The Fed stays on hold, markets get no cut catalyst, and crypto trades sideways to down without a clear directional trigger. This is not relief. It is a delay of a worse reading.

Islamabad holds and oil stabilizes. CPI comes in cool. This might be the only combination where Wednesday’s gains can be fully recovered and extended. A functioning ceasefire unlocks Hormuz, oil retreats from elevated levels, and a cool CPI print gives the Fed room to signal cuts on the timeline the market has been pricing. Risk assets breathe. Crypto has the fundamental catalyst, de-escalation plus monetary easing expectations – to retest and potentially exceed the ceasefire highs. Bitcoin above $72,000 and ETH back toward $2,280 become realistic targets in this scenario, not aspirational ones.

What the Market Is Actually Waiting For

According to CNN, US delegation including JD Vance and Jared Kushner is still scheduled for Islamabad on Saturday. Iran has called further talks “unreasonable” but has not formally withdrawn. The ceasefire is broken in practice while technically still in place on paper, which means the market is in the worst possible position: too uncertain to price a recovery, too early to price a complete breakdown.

The Strait of Hormuz carries one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas. It was closed when the war started. It is still closed now. Every session it stays closed is a session the ceasefire’s core market-relevant promise goes unfulfilled — and a session the Fed’s ability to cut gets harder to justify.

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Filed under: Bitcoin - @ April 9, 2026 5:04 am