While gold markets were closed, crypto traders priced the Iran war in real time

On Feb. 28, coordinated strikes hit Iranian nuclear facilities while most benchmark commodity markets sat dark. Traditional gold futures on CME’s COMEX exchange wouldn’t reopen until Sunday evening Central Time, leaving a 48-hour window where macro risk had nowhere obvious to express itself. Except it did: on venues that never close. Update (March 5, 2026, […]