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A wide-ranging Asia-Pacific FX wrap covers escalating US-Iran military exchanges in the Gulf — including Iranian ballistic missile strikes on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai — driving an immediate spike in oil prices. USD/JPY touched 160, prompting verbal intervention warnings from Japan's Finance Minister, while Japan's cabinet approved a ¥3.1 trillion deficit-funded supplementary budget. SpaceX announced a $135/share IPO target price on Nasdaq aiming to raise $75 billion, which would be the largest IPO in history; the US also proposed new 10% tariffs on ~60 nations under a Section 301 forced-labour probe.

F2Pool co-founder, who controls approximately 11% of Bitcoin's hashrate through the mining pool, has been announced as a crew member on the first SpaceX mission to Mars. The article connects a prominent figure in Bitcoin mining infrastructure to SpaceX's Mars program. No operational or financial changes to F2Pool or SpaceX are reported.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals the company held 18,712 bitcoin at a fair value of approximately $1.29 billion as of the end of Q1 2026. The disclosure comes as part of SpaceX's IPO filing, making it one of the larger corporate bitcoin holders on record. No details were provided on the average acquisition cost or timing of purchases.