The company behind XRP has doubled down on its partnership with Brevan Howard, one of the world’s largest alternative investment managers. Ripple Prime will allow the firm access to multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing, and financing. Another Institutional Heavyweight The announcement shared earlier on October 6 reads that Ripple has expanded its ongoing relationship with the…
The Ethereum layer-2 is backing Paxos-issued USDG to earn a share of reserve income as new stablecoin alliances compete for distribution, users and reserve economics.
Bitcoin is nearing the US midterm election window, with past performances around that period holding it in good stead, but analysts at XWIN Japan have warned that past gains don’t necessarily mean we will see another rally. Their analysis suggests a narrow test for BTC, especially if ETF buying continues, Treasury yields cool, and regulatory…
Adam Iza’s sentence runs concurrently with a 15-year term imposed last month for his role in an attempted bitcoin robbery.
At ETHU’s Oct. 6 disclosed futures valuation, a 3x Ethereum ETF with $362.1 million in assets would target about $1.09 billion of exposure. If held entirely in standard CME Ether futures, that would equal 8,000 contracts, CME’s single-month and all-month accountability level. The SEC approved Cboe BZX’s rule change to list Volatility Shares’ proposed ETHK…
Clearpool holders approved a 1:1 migration from Ethereum-based CPOOL to XRP Ledger-based CLEAR by 97%, while XRP traded near $1.50 as the news unfolded. The vote strengthens XRPL’s institutional-credit offering. The planned loans use RLUSD, and Clearpool’s token buybacks are intended to support CLEAR. Clearpool focuses on private credit and has facilitated more than $930…
The native token of the Cardano blockchain has skyrocketed by almost 100% since its multi-year low of under $0.14, marked in late June as the FUD around the protocol spread like wildfire. The asset recently hit a multi-month peak of over $0.27, and data from Santiment showed that the move cannot be explained simply by…
Aave is approaching a $67 million collateral rollover as one of its fastest-growing fixed-yield trades reaches maturity. About 67.4 million PT-AUSD-8OCT2026 tokens were supplied as collateral on Aave V3’s Monad market as of Oct. 2, according to risk adviser LlamaRisk. The Pendle principal tokens mature Oct. 8, when each becomes redeemable for one AUSD and…
Leading the gains is BTW, the native token of Bitway, a bitcoin-compatible layer-1, which jumped 25% in the past 24 hours and is up 170% over the past 30 days.
Cardano’s proposed programmable-token standard could let a freeze on one asset temporarily block unrelated tokens held in the same transaction output. CIP-113, merged into Cardano’s main improvement-proposal repository on Sept. 29, is designed to add issuer-controlled transfer rules to native assets without abandoning the network’s extended unspent transaction output, or eUTXO, model. The Cardano Foundation…