#Gate广场五月交易分享 How the Control of the Strait of Hormuz Reshapes Global Risk Asset Pricing

The contest for control of the strait is not an abstract geopolitical narrative but directly impacts energy prices, inflation expectations, and capital flows. Iran plans to convert wartime temporary blockade measures into long-term legal frameworks through domestic legislation, meaning that even if negotiations continue, the rules of passage have already undergone irreversible change. The recent "Freedom of Navigation" initiative launched by the Trump administration explicitly targets the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, and the overlapping legal and military confrontations between the two sides make this week a critical turning point from a "factual contest" to an "institutional confrontation" over control of the strait. For the crypto market, the most direct transmission path is not the rise in oil prices itself but the sustained high oil prices squeezing the Federal Reserve's room to cut interest rates—and the resulting adjustments in dollar liquidity expectations. The market needs to distinguish between a "one-time shock" and "ongoing institutional change," with the latter having a more profound impact on the medium- to long-term pricing models of crypto assets.