On February 28, 2026, the skies over the Middle East were shrouded in smoke. Israeli Defense Minister Katz confirmed a 'preemptive' strike against Iran, with about 30 targets within Iran being attacked, thick smoke billowing from Tehran, and a state of emergency declared across Israel. Behind this military action described as a 'joint U.S.-Israeli' operation is Israel's intent to devastate Iran's nuclear facilities and security systems.
Meanwhile, global financial markets are on edge, and a cryptocurrency project named Zerobase (ZBT) stands out particularly during this storm.
I have always believed that Israel is determined to eliminate Iran this time. It desperately wants to destroy Iran, even at the cost of dragging the United States down with it. Just a day before the attack, the Omani foreign minister revealed that Iran had agreed to 'zero accumulation, zero stockpile' of nuclear materials, while the United States was still hesitating on whether to take military action. But Israel couldn't wait; it absolutely will not allow any progress in U.S.-Iran negotiations. What it wants is not for Iran to kneel, but for Iran to perish. This kind of malice not only stirs up a political tsunami in the Middle East chess game but also causes a deadly disturbance to global capital flows.
For a project like Zerobase, which focuses on zero-knowledge proof infrastructure, the brutality of war is reshaping its fate.#Zerobase
It is the tearing and reconstruction of risk-averse logic. After the outbreak of conflict, Iran launched missile retaliation, and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were once viewed as 'digital gold' and sought after amid severe fluctuations, but the ensuing data on liquidations was devastating. As a foundational technology infrastructure, Zerobase's token ZBT inevitably gets caught up in the torrent of this macro volatility. When war panic leads to tightening liquidity in traditional markets, any high-risk crypto assets face the pressure of capital outflow.
Secondly, it is the irony of the technological narrative. One of Zerobase's core selling points is 'compliance' and 'auditable decryption circuits,' aimed at helping businesses and financial institutions meet regulatory requirements while protecting privacy. However, when Israeli missiles target the Iranian presidential palace and intelligence department, this 'compliance' appears exceptionally fragile. Geopolitical conflicts often lead governments to strengthen monitoring of cross-border funds, especially transactions involving cryptocurrencies, to prevent sanctions from being evaded. The 'compliance' scenarios that Zerobase serves may evolve into a tool for alignment under the extreme opposition of war—its technology, the more it can penetrate privacy, the more likely it is to be caught up in the espionage games of great powers.
The ultimate test of the belief in 'decentralization.' What Israel wants is for Iran to die and for the United States to be mired in a quagmire. Once the conflict escalates into a prolonged war, the surge in energy prices will directly impact mining costs, and the fragmentation of cyberspace may force infrastructures like Zerobase to make choices between Eastern and Western camps. Although it has received support from Binance Labs, the Ethereum Foundation, and even NVIDIA, when cruise missiles tear through the Tehran night sky, the national will above the code appears colder and heavier than ever.
Zerobase is attempting to generate zero-knowledge proofs within milliseconds, but the proposition given by this war is: when the world is divided in half by fire, to whom do you prove your innocence? The poison of Israel and the hatred of Iran will ultimately settle into a geopolitical burden that the crypto world cannot bear.$ZBT
