Ripple announced plans on Wednesday to secure an Australian Financial Services License through the proposed acquisition of BC Payments Australia Pty Ltd, per a release shared with CoinDesk. The acquisition, which is still subject to completion, would allow Ripple to offer its full payments stack in Australia, covering onboarding, compliance, funding, foreign exchange, liquidity management,…
Ethereum’s network activity has surged to all-time highs across multiple metrics, but the growth has failed to lift ether’s price or boost fee generation at the base layer. A weekly report from analytics firm CryptoQuant published March 10 found that daily active addresses on Ethereum approached 2 million in February 2026, exceeding peaks seen during…
We all know the problem with a public ledger. Most of us living inside the crypto ecosystem can’t actually bring ourselves to say it. But find a normie on the street, one with some knowledge of blockchain (good luck with that), and they’ll tell you straight. It’s public. A public ledger is public. We’ve spent…
Shares of Circle (CRCL), the crypto firm behind the USDC (USDC) stablecoin, could add to their recent remarkable surge, according to analysts at brokerage Bernstein. The team, led by Gautam Chhugani, rate the stock at outperform with a $190 price target, suggesting about 60% upside from current $120 level. And that’s after the stock rallied…
Prediction market platform Polymarket has teamed up with Palantir and TWG AI to build a monitoring system designed to detect suspicious trading and manipulation in sports prediction markets, a move that reflects growing pressure on the fast-growing sector to establish credibility. The new system will use Palantir’s data infrastructure and TWG AI’s analytics to monitor…
The U.S. banking industry had effectively lobbied to halt the crypto industry’s market structure bill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, over a dispute about the proper role for stablecoin rewards. But lawmakers continue to negotiate a compromise to move that legislation forward. One of the lawmakers at the center of those talks, Senator Angela…
About $27 million was liquidated on the decentralized lending platform Aave over the last 24 hours, in what some market participants say may have been caused by a temporary pricing issue involving the token wstETH. Blockchain data flagged by risk-management firm Chaos Labs shows a spike in liquidations in the past 24 hours. Some observers…
There is a war going on between crypto firms and traditional banks over stablecoins, and Jefferies analysts said that they could become a steady drag on bank earnings as digital dollar use spreads. While stablecoins aren’t going to be an immediate existential threat to banks and aren’t likely to trigger a sudden run on U.S….
For much of crypto’s history, the primary use case has been simple: buying tokens and trading them. Now, some investors and builders believe the industry may be moving toward a different model altogether: earning crypto instead of buying it. One version of that idea is what venture firm Multicoin Capital calls Internet Labor Markets (ILM)…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — the sister agencies that will regulate most U.S. crypto activity — have been rivals in the past over crypto issues, but they’re now pursuing a formal memorandum of understanding to combine agency efforts, said SEC Chairman Paul Atkins. “We are reorienting our…
