Bitcoin crashes below $77K as Trump's Iran threat sends shockwaves through risk assets!

Bitcoin dropped 2.4% to $76,500 at the CME futures open on Sunday — its lowest print since April 30 — after President Trump posted on social media that the "clock is ticking" for Iran and warned there "won't be anything left of them" if they don't act fast. Brent crude briefly topped $112 per barrel on the comments, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.3% and 0.25% respectively.

Ether bore the brunt of the crypto selloff, falling 3.5% to $2,116 and erasing April's entire rally in a wave of liquidations. Market-wide futures notional volume surged 65% to $159 billion in 24 hours, open interest slipped 1.48% to $125 billion, and liquidations spiked 500% to $677 million — a combination that signals forced deleveraging rather than fresh directional bets.

Altcoins underperformed sharply: BCH shed 10%, DOGE dropped 4.5%, and the CoinDesk Memecoin Index fell 2.2%. BCH's perpetual…