The XRP Ledger (XRPL) activated the XLS-85 amendment on February 12, 2026, bringing native escrow to all Trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs). This upgrade…
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Britain is positioning itself to become the first G7 nation to issue sovereign debt on the blockchain, appointing banking giant HSBC and law firm Ashurst to…
A White House-brokered meeting between crypto and bank representatives to reach an agreement on stablecoin provisions in the market structure bill has been described as “productive,”…
Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort.DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were…
Volatility in crypto markets is “nothing new,” says Coinbase chief.Crypto continues to “eat” traditional financial markets, expert adds.Hedge fund manager says Bitcoin will be long-gone in…
Traders suggest unusual activity in IBIT may point to Hong Kong–based hedge funds, though no hard evidence has emerged.Unusual trading in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has donated to Shielded Labs, backing development of Crosslink, a proposed consensus upgrade for Zcash.The move signals a deepening commitment by Buterin…
Talk about frenzied trading. On Thursday, BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, tickered as IBIT, hit a wild record with over 284 million shares traded, per Nasdaq…
US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) holders are showing relatively firm conviction despite a four-month Bitcoin downtrend, according to ETF analyst James Seyffart.“The ETFs are still…
New reports says Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, or investors tied to him, agreed in January 2025 to invest $500 million into Trump-linked…