The XRP token is trading in one of its tightest ranges in months, and these quiet phases often don’t last. With price sitting just above $1.40 after a failed bounce, traders are watching closely for the next big move. News Background XRP volatility has dropped to its lowest level since January, a setup that historically…
What do you call a market that consistently shrugs off headlines that usually send it tumbling? You call it resilient with a strong underlying demand support. That’s the bitcoin story in recent weeks, as it the cryptocurrency held firm around $70,000 even as the Iran war rages, oil prices surge, and Fed rate-cut bets evaporate….
Bhutan has sold a part of its BTC stash again, and the pace is accelerating. The Royal Government of Bhutan moved 519.707 BTC worth $36.75 million on Wednesday to an external address, according to Arkham Intelligence data. The transfer continues a drawdown that has intensified sharply over the past two weeks, with approximately $152 million…
Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume traded, released guidelines placing tighter obligations on token issuers and liquidity providers. The new rules require projects to disclose their market maker’s identity, legal entity and contract terms. They also ban profit-sharing and guaranteed-return arrangements, which the exchange said can create incentives that conflict with fair trading. Token…
Obex, the Framework Ventures-backed incubator, began deploying $1 billion on Wednesday to link the Sky ecosystem’s USDS stablecoin with income from tangible assets like AI data centers, housing and energy, boosting real-world strategies beyond crypto-native sources of yield. The first group of assets includes products from Maple, USD.ai, Daylight, Centrifuge, Securitize, River, TVL Capital and…
The Solana Foundation is positioning the network as core infrastructure for an emerging “agentic” internet, where AI systems—not humans—initiate and execute economic activity. “AI is not really a vertical. It’s a platform shift… affecting everything across every industry, including crypto,” said Vibhu Norby, chief product officer of the Solana Foundation, during a panel at the…
Artificial intelligence agents will be deployed starting Wednesday by law enforcement agencies using analytical tools provided by TRM Labs, which added the new agents that are meant to allow investigators to use regular language to frame their searches. The new investigative assistant is embedded in the TRM Forensics service that’s extended to law enforcement agencies,…
Coinbase is walking a tightrope in the negotiation over the Clarity Act, telling the staffs of U.S. senators that the company is not happy with where the lawmakers landed in their latest compromise, according to people familiar with the situation, but it hasn’t openly declared its opposition. The proposed agreement was shown to stakeholders in…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has hired a new head of design with deep roots in crypto product development, as the platform continues to expand into payments and financial services. Benji Taylor said in Wednesday post that he now leads design for X under its ties to xAI and SpaceX. Taylor founded Los Feliz…
BitGo and ZKsync are teaming up to offer banks a full-stack infrastructure for tokenized deposits, as financial institutions look to bring traditional money onto blockchain rails without stepping outside regulatory boundaries. The effort combines BitGo’s institutional custody and wallet services with ZKsync’s Prividium, a permissioned, privacy-preserving blockchain designed for regulated entities. The joint offering aims…
