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Summary Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse mourned the death of his father, B. Kent Garlinghouse Sr., highlighting his generosity, wisdom, and influence. Kent Garlinghouse built a career in manufac
Gold falls below $4,000 as markets suffer a wave of selling that affects several precious metals. On Thursday, losses accelerated in a context marked by rising oil prices and inflation fears.
By a paper-thin margin of just 38 to 37 votes, France’s National Assembly voted on October 16 to move forward with a proposal that could hit crypto-to-stablecoin swaps with a 31.4% capital ga
Phantom has opened access to Kalshi prediction markets for eligible US users through its mobile wallet, with its help center listing a combined trading fee of $0.02 per contract. Summary Phan
Dogecoin is evolving into a full crypto network that rewards not only DOGE users but also participants actively engaging on-chain. This is demonstrated by today’s announcement that revealed t
Tether has blacklisted a set of USDT wallets reportedly linked to outflows from CoinDCX, the Indian crypto exchange, in a token-control action that freezes USDT transfers at the affected addr
Initia halted its layer-1 blockchain and rollups after blockchain sleuths reported an exploit that allowed an attacker to mint tokens without authorization and drain more than $2.6 million in
Bitcoin Core changes its way of handling certain vulnerabilities because of artificial intelligence. Developers now acknowledge that a bug can be so easy to find that a simple prompt sent to
NFT supporters have reopened the debate over the sector’s future on X as Nifty Gateway’s closure, Binance’s centralized marketplace exit, and Magic Eden’s withdrawal from Bitcoin and EVM trad
@Injective has expanded its native $USDC supply by 43% over the past 30 days, lifting the total on-chain dollar supply on the network to $16.5M. The financial Layer-1 blockchain is positionin
US banks now have a final federal rulebook for stablecoins, and Quant Network is positioning itself as the connective layer between that new framework and the payment systems banks already us
Summary Malaysia and Thailand have joined Singapore’s BLOOM initiative to strengthen regional cooperation on cross-border payments involving stablecoins and tokenized deposits. Ripple’s parti
