Latest updates, press releases, and insights from the volatile world of digital assets.
Spot Bitcoin funds recorded substantial redemptions as U.S.-Iran tensions and rising Treasury yields prompted a shift in investor sentiment, while Ether ETFs continued to attract capital
Ripple has introduced Ripple Mint, a new enterprise tool enabling institutions to efficiently mint, redeem, and manage its regulated RLUSD stablecoin across multiple blockchains, alongside broader multichain support and a strategic compliance investment
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have unveiled a new benchmark comprising 18 tokens selected for their protocol revenue, liquidity, and utility, notably excluding Bitcoin and XRP in favor of assets like Ethereum, BNB, and Solana
T. Rowe Price has introduced TKNZ, an actively managed ETF providing exposure to a basket of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others, marking a new step in traditional finance's involvement with digital assets
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has begun limited production trades with tokenized versions of real U.S. equities, ETFs, and government bonds, involving major institutions like JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs
Ripple has become a Premier Member of the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation, working with major industry players to create open standards for machine-to-machine payments using XRP and RLUSD
The UK government has formed a 54-firm task force that includes Ripple to advance tokenized wholesale financial markets, targeting live trials of repo transactions and digital bonds within the next year
Ripple leadership considered closing operations and distributing XRP holdings after the 2020 SEC lawsuit, but chose to fight to save jobs and continue building payment technology
Ripple has entered a multi-year sponsorship agreement with the University of Kansas, placing the XRP logo on Jayhawks athletic uniforms across multiple sports programs in a first-of-its-kind move for cryptocurrency and NCAA Division I athletics
Ripple has secured full Crypto Asset Service Provider authorization in Luxembourg, enabling regulated crypto payments across 30 European Economic Area countries as MiCA rules take full effect
