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Coinbase’s legal battle over alleged insider trading hit a new milestone this week when a Delaware judge refused to toss a shareholder suit, keeping alive claims that top executives and directors sold stock while sitting on inside information. Reports say the ruling does not resolve guilt or innocen...

Capital is rotating back into high-potential crypto assets, and XRP is emerging as the primary beneficiary of the shift. As liquidity floods back into the market, many believe the altcoin is positioned for a powerful upside move that could dramatically reshape portfolios. Why This Capital Inflow Cou...

Reports say social and on-chain mood around crypto has dropped to a yearly low, a sign that fear is running high among many investors. Santiment’s social-data read shows negative chatter spiking and the balance of bearish to bullish comments tilting heavily toward fear. That kind of panic has, at ti...

A popular crypto pundit who previously criticized XRP has now changed his tune, acknowledging he was wrong to undermine the cryptocurrency and now calling it “the global currency”. The analyst cited his earlier misconceptions about the altcoin, highlighting developments such as Ripple’s new bank cha...

Nu, the largest Latin American digital bank, has recently announced a major achievement in securing conditional approval of a national banking charter from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). This development would see the Brazil-based bank expand its operational footprint into t...

Crypto pundit X Finance Bull has highlighted that XRP’s use case extends beyond payments, with a focus on tokenization. This comes as experts such as Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg have predicted that the altcoin will be the token of choice for real-world assets (RWAs) tokenization. How XRP’s Uti...

Bitcoin (BTC) prices fell by over 8% in the past week alone, resulting in heightened bearish sentiments across the market. The downtrend, as seen across the broader crypto market, has been largely attributed to institutional repositioning, inflows to precious metals, and the Federal Reserve’s ...

Following a brief price rebound from $86,000 to $90,000 early in the week, it appeared that Bitcoin was experiencing its routine movement within the consolidation range. However, the market is on edge with curiosity about what is happening with the flagship cryptocurrency, especially after its swift...

US authorities moved on Friday to cut off what they say was a major crypto pipeline used by Iranian actors. Two London-registered platforms were added to the sanctions list and are now subject to blocking measures that bar US persons from dealing with them. Related Reading: Bitcoin Strategy Deepens ...

If there has been any doubt about the arrival of the bear market, the latest drop in the Bitcoin price to around $81,000 somewhat made it more believable. While different triggers, including geopolitical tensions, Microsoft’s earnings miss, and liquidation cascades, have been credited for this drop,...

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the co‑founder and former CEO of Binance, has pushed back against ongoing claims that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was responsible for the sharp market crash that rocked the digital asset sector last October. Speaking during a live ask‑me‑anything session hosted o...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have announced they are relaunching the Project Crypto initiative as a joint policy effort to prepare US markets for the digital era. Related Reading: Bank Of England Shares Stablecoin, Tokenization Plan For...

Ripple’s RLUSD stands out from most stablecoins by the way it is designed to operate inside financial markets. Rather than focusing on broad retail usage, its structure and early integrations point toward a role anchored in trading infrastructure, collateral frameworks, and regulated settlement flow...

As Bitcoin (BTC) struggles through a prolonged downturn, cryptocurrency exchange Binance has unveiled a new move aimed at reinforcing confidence in the digital asset sector. Amid this, BTC has fallen 34% over the past four months, a slide that has fueled growing debate over whether the market has en...

Bitcoin’s derivatives market is showing clear signs of deceleration. A CryptoQuant analyst highlights that monthly Bitcoin futures trading volume across all exchanges fell to approximately $1.09 trillion in January, marking the lowest level since 2024. This represents a notable slowdown compared to ...

The US Senate is edging closer to a full vote on the crypto market structure legislation, which could be a turning point for the likes of XRP. The bill, which aims to establish clear federal rules for how cryptocurrencies are regulated and traded, is viewed as a turning point for crypto assets like ...

The crypto market has come under heavy selling pressure amid a sharp deterioration in global risk sentiment. According to a CryptoQuant report, the latest downturn unfolded alongside a broader cross-asset sell-off, where traditional safe havens and risk assets were both hit. Gold posted a sudden cor...

USD1 has pushed past a $5 billion market cap, a rapid climb that has attracted wide attention across crypto markets. Reports say the stablecoin, issued by World Liberty Financial, now ranks among the largest dollar-pegged tokens. Trading has stayed close to the $1 peg even as overall market interest...

An interactive question-and-answer session between members of the community and David Schwartz has peeled back another layer of early XRP and Ripple history. The discussion unfolded publicly on the social media platform X, where users posed a series of questions touching on the token’s smallest unit...

Charles Hoskinson says a Circle-issued stablecoin product is headed to Cardano after what he described as “deep negotiations” between Circle and a Cardano-aligned negotiating group known as the Pentad (Input Output (IOHK), EMURGO, Cardano Foundation, Midnight Foundation, and Intersect). Speaking fro...