Entity

Bessent

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 3 coverage verticals, including World Wires, General Business and Federal Authority.

As of 15 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • US to Seize About $1 Billion in Crypto Linked to Iran: Treasury Secretary Bessent

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Bessent

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 26 mentions on 15 Oct 2026, against 42 on 24 Sept 2026 (-38%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 5 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 14 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

704 documents · 153 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.067: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Bessent

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TreasuryScott BessentTrumpIranChinaAIOilUnited StatesXi Jinping
  • Treasury · 659 shared documents
  • Scott Bessent · 636 shared documents
  • Trump · 455 shared documents
  • Treasury Secretary Scott · 417 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran · 352 shared documents
  • China · 319 shared documents
  • AI · 280 shared documents
  • Oil · 258 shared documents
  • United States · 245 shared documents
  • Xi Jinping · 162 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 26 mentions on 15 Oct 2026 with 42 on 24 Sept 2026 (-38%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +100% from 31 Aug 2026 to 15 Oct 2026, between 3 and 61 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Bessent, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/93e5afd0d2867443448e12f7 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name bessent.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Bessent

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • US to Seize About $1 Billion in Crypto Linked to Iran: Treasury Secretary Bessent

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

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Bessent

Entity.

Evidence
704 documents · 153 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 30 Apr 2026, last seen 15 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
15 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Bessent, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 5 Oct 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 15 Oct 2026.