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Coins
Grayscale Files to Convert Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP Large Cap Fund Into an ETF
Grayscale Investments, one of the largest Bitcoin ETF issuers, filed to convert its existing private Digital Large Cap Fund to a publicly available exchange traded fund (ETF). It currently contains Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. The existing private fund, which is only available to accredited investors through private placement, heavily leans towards Bitcoin with a 79.4% weighting, at the time of writing. The rest includes Ethereum with 10.69%. XRP, Solana, and Cardano take up 5.85...
Mar 30, 2025
Markets
Bitcoin, Crypto Prices Slide as Trade Tensions, Inflation Risks Rattle Markets
Crypto prices extended losses Sunday evening, trading lower alongside U.S. stock futures as investors reacted to escalating trade tensions and renewed inflation concerns ahead of a busy week for financial markets. Bitcoin has slipped to $82,100 while Ethereum has dipped to about $1,790. XRP, meanwhile, has fallen to $2.13, according to CoinGecko data. The drop follows weeks of volatility in equities, with major tech stocks retreating sharply and broader sentiment weakening. Futures tied to the S...
Mar 22, 2025
Space
Ripple, Mt. Gox Founder Bets $1 Billion That He Can Replace the International Space Station
What do you do after amassing a fortune from cryptocurrency? Build a space station, of course. That’s exactly what Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb is doing, according to a report by Bloomberg. While crypto investors say they’re “going to the moon” when Bitcoin surges, McCaleb, a longtime industry pioneer, is aiming for the real thing. “It’s super important that people take this leap from where we are today to this potential world where there’s a lot of people living off the Earth,” McCaleb told Bl...
Mar 21, 2025
Markets
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Prices Spooked by 'Triple Witching' Volatility
Bitcoin, along with most top coins, has taken a dip as investors brace for a "triple witching" dose of market volatility. At the time of publication, Bitcoin's price has shed 2.4% since yesterday, slipping below $84,000. The Ethereum price followed it, also dropping 2.4% to trade for $1,948.93, according to CoinGecko data. ETH hasn't been this low since November 2023, right before a Bitcoin rally helped it climb out of a months-long trough and back above $2,000. The XRP price has dropped by 5.2...
Mar 20, 2025
Coins
Bitnomial Plans to Launch 'First' US XRP Futures, Drops SEC Lawsuit
Crypto exchange Bitnomial has voluntarily dropped its lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it prepares to launch the first-ever CFTC-regulated XRP futures contract in the country, citing improvements in “regulatory clarity.” The Chicago-based crypto exchange will begin offering XRP futures contracts—contracts that allow traders to speculate on or hedge against the future price of XRP, with the actual delivery of the asset upon contract settlement—starting today fo...
Mar 19, 2025
Coins
XRP Jumps as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Says SEC 'Case Has Ended'
Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse said in a video shared to his X account Wednesday that the SEC will drop its appeal in the lawsuit it's been pursuing against the firm for the past four years. "I'm finally able to announce that this case has ended. It's over," Garlinghouse said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Today is a victory and [a] long overdue surrender from the SEC.” This is it – the moment we’ve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal – a resounding victory for Ripple, for cryp...
Mar 18, 2025
Markets
Solana, XRP and Dogecoin Slump as Crypto Market Awaits Fed’s ‘Dot Plot’
The price of XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin slumped on Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next policy decision, an event that could shape rate cut expectations as the crypto market attempts to recover from a bumpy stretch under President Trump. The Fed is widely expected to leave its benchmark rate unchanged, but investors will still be fixed on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-decision remarks, alongside a so-called Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) that the U.S. central bank is set to release...
Mar 18, 2025
Coins
XRP Allocations More Common Than Solana Among Institutions: Coinbase, EY
Institutional investors surveyed by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon were more likely to own XRP than Solana in January, according to a report published by the firms on Tuesday. Bitcoin and Ethereum were widely held by 352 respondents based worldwide, yet 34% of them had allocated to the Ripple Labs-linked token compared to 30% for Solana. Around 25% of institutional investors also owned Dogecoin. Tuesday’s report noted that a majority of institutional investors held just one or two cryptocurrencies be...
Mar 17, 2025
Markets
Hashdex Seeks to Add Solana, XRP and Cardano to Index ETF Holding Bitcoin and Ethereum
Hasdex has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to approve an amendment that would allow the digital asset manager to add XRP, Solana, Cardano and other major altcoins to its Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF (NCIQ), according to a filing with the regulator Monday. The fund, which currently focuses primarily on Bitcoin and tracks a smaller percentage of Ethereum, would also include Chainlink, Uniswap, Litecoin, and Avalanche. The filing comes as issuers have aimed to add coverage o...
Mar 13, 2025
Markets
Ripple Secures Dubai Regulator Approval to Expand Its Presence in the Middle East
Ripple has just secured full regulatory approval from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to offer blockchain-powered payment solutions. The approval makes Ripple the first payments provider of its kind licensed to operate within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and marks a major expansion in the Middle East. With the DFSA license, the company is poised to tap into the UAE's thriving $40 billion cross-border payments market. “Thanks to its early leadership in creating a...
Mar 11, 2025
Markets
Bitcoin, XRP and Solana Bounce Back After Crypto Market Bloodbath
Digital coins and tokens are starting to rebound Tuesday after getting hit hard by the twists and turns of President Trump's foreign policy alongside continued inflation fears. Major coins like Bitcoin, XRP, and Solana are now in the green over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin's price is now up nearly 5% in that span, according to CoinGecko. It's trading for $83,119 per coin as of this writing. The biggest coin by market cap plunged below $77,000 on Monday on fears of a possible U.S. recession, f...
Mar 11, 2025
Law and Order
SEC Delays XRP ETF Decision as Franklin Templeton Joins Hopefuls
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delayed its decision on Grayscale’s application for an XRP exchange-traded fund, according to a notice filed on Tuesday. The Commission said “a longer period” of time is needed to determine whether the application aiming to establish a spot XRP ETF in the U.S. will be approved or denied. When the SEC recognized Grayscale’s application last month, it triggered an initial review period of 45 days. The SEC can ultimately extend that timeline up to 240 day...
Mar 5, 2025
Business
Bitcoin Reserve Announcement Coming Friday, Says Commerce Secretary
The proposed U.S. crypto strategic reserve is expected to be announced Friday, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with Bitcoin set to hold a unique status while other cryptocurrencies will be "treated differently." Speaking to news outlet The Pavlovic Today, Lutnick said that, "A Bitcoin strategic reserve is something the President’s interested in," adding that, "He spoke about it all during the campaign trail, and I think you’re going to see it executed on Friday." The U.S. Commerc...
Mar 2, 2025
Markets
Trader Nets $6.8M After Well-Timed Bitcoin, Ethereum Bets Ahead of Trump’s Reserve Announcement
A crypto trader has walked away with $6.8 million in profit after placing highly leveraged well-timed trades, scaling into long positions hours before President Donald Trump’s U.S. crypto reserve announcement on Sunday. The trader, operating on decentralized derivatives exchange, Hyperliquid, deposited $6 million in USDC and used 50x leverage to open long positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain. The strategy carried significant risk—a 2% price drop...
Mar 2, 2025
Law and Order
Trump Says Crypto Reserve Will Hold XRP, Solana, Cardano—And 'Obviously' Bitcoin and Ethereum
President Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will create a "crypto reserve" that will include digital assets XRP, Solana, and Cardano. His initial post to Truth Social excluded Bitcoin from the list, which confused observers who wondered why the largest crypto asset by market cap wouldn't be included in such a reserve. Trump, appearing to respond to the confusion, followed up with a second post to Truth Social to set the record straight: "And, obviously, BTC and ETH, as other valuable cryptocurrenc...
Feb 25, 2025
Markets
DOGE, ETH, SOL, XRP Plunge by Double Digits as Bitcoin Crashes Below $88,000
Dogecoin (DOGE), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and XRP have all recorded double-digit losses in the past 24 hours, as Bitcoin's price plunged to a three-month low below $88,000. Bitcoin crashed as low as $87,115, per data from CoinGecko. At time of publication, the cryptocurrency has dropped to $87,657, down 8% on the day and erasing the past week's gains. Analysts have chalked up the recent losses to a variety of factors, including the lack of confirmation about a U.S. national Bitcoin reserve...
Feb 25, 2025
Law and Order
Crypto Leaders Urge SEC to Overhaul ETF Policies as Solana and XRP Filings Pile Up
Crypto leaders and TradFi bigwigs are pushing the SEC to rewrite its ETF rules—and allow all manner of altcoin and meme coin-related products to flood Wall Street. During a closed-door meeting with the SEC’s new crypto task force on Friday, representatives of several digital assets-involved firms—including Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, and the financial services giant Fidelity—pressed the regulator to overhaul its ETF policies, according to publicly filed meeting notes. The companies, all memb...
Feb 21, 2025
Markets
Bitcoin, XRP and Dogecoin Sink Amid Inflation Fears and Bybit Hack Fallout
Crypto markets have turned red after top digital assets exchange Bybit was hit by a $1.4 billion hack, plus investors were spooked by renewed inflation concerns. CoinGecko data shows that big digital coins Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP are all down, among other high-cap coins. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency, is trading for $96,300, a more than 2% drop over the past day, while Ethereum's price has dropped further—by 3%—and stands at $2,669. Meanwhile, XRP, the third-biggest digital asset, has...
Feb 21, 2025
Markets
Bitcoin Makes a Move Towards $100K After Coinbase Reveals SEC Dismissal Agreement
Bitcoin rose to its highest price in more than a week after top American crypto exchange Coinbase said that the Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to dismiss its charges against the firm. The price of Bitcoin jumped to $99,504 on Friday morning, shortly after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on X (formerly Twitter) that the regulator's staff had agreed to dismiss its case against the exchange. The agreement must still be approved by SEC commissioners. "There will be no settlement or comp...
Feb 21, 2025
Law and Order
Grayscale XRP ETF Countdown Begins as Filing Hits Federal Register
The filing for Grayscale’s proposed XRP exchange-traded fund has officially hit the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Federal Register, bringing it one step closer to becoming a reality. The publication, which entered on Thursday, has triggered a 21-day comment period, with the regulator expected to approve, deny, or further review Grayscale’s filing by October 18. If approved, the ETF would provide a regulated vehicle for exposure to XRP, one of the most talked-about cryptos in the ma...




