Monday brought significant turmoil in Tehran as Iran's central bank chief Mohammad Reza Farzin stepped down amid mounting civil unrest. The trigger? A currency crisis that hit hard over the weekend—the rial plummeted to an unprecedented 1.42 million per dollar on Sunday, marking a historic low. When national currencies face such severe depreciation, it typically sparks broader market instability and pushes investors toward alternative value stores. This kind of macroeconomic breakdown often drives renewed interest in decentralized assets as capital seeks refuge from fiat currency volatility.