The financial tech company was granted a full UK banking license on Wednesday and has also applied for a federal bank charter in the United States.
Institutional investors are beginning to pull capital out of XRP after a month of steady inflows, raising new questions about whether confidence in the digital asset is weakening. Lately, XRP has experienced significant volatility, sending its price crashing below $1.4. If this downtrend continues alongside capital outflows, it would not be surprising if market participants begin to wonder whether now may be the right time to sell their bags to avoid deeper losses. XRP Records Outflows As Other Digital Assets Attract Capital XRP currently stands apart from the rest of the crypto market, and not in a good way. According to a CoinShares digital asset fund flows weekly report, XRP recorded substantial outflows of $30.3 million last week. The decline stands in contrast to the broader digital asset investment market, which continued to attract new money during the same period. Related Reading: Buying XRP At These Prices Is Like Buying Bitcoin At $200 Across all digital asset investment products, CoinShares reports that total inflows had jumped to $619 million. Early in the week, the market also showed strong demand, with $1.44 billion flowing into crypto funds during the first three days. However, the trend reversed toward the end of the week, with investors withdrawing $829 million on Thursday and Friday. According to CoinShares analysts, the negative shift in sentiment came as oil prices rose, complicating inflation expectations. This occurred even though US payroll data came in weaker than expected, a development that would normally support risk assets like cryptocurrencies, but failed to do so. Investors Become More Selective About Crypto Despite the late-week reversal, the total inflows show that institutional interest in digital assets has remained relatively strong, especially amid ongoing geopolitical tensions involving the US, Israel, and Iran. Still, the distribution of those flows shows that investors are becoming more selective about capital allocation, with XRP notably absent from the list of assets attracting new institutional money. Related Reading: XRP Starts New Week With Bullish Confirmation, But This Level Is A Problem Instead, funds are concentrated on larger assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, leaving XRP outside the current focus of institutional demand. CoinShares reports that Bitcoin attracted the vast majority of new capital, with $521 million flowing into related investment products. At the same time, $11.4 million moved into short Bitcoin products, reflecting a divided outlook among investors. Notably, Ethereum recorded $88.5 million in inflows, while Solana brought in $14.6 million. Smaller allocations were also directed toward Uniswap and Chainlink. Against this backdrop, XRP was the only major digital asset to experience significant outflows. The recent withdrawals could signal that institutions are rotating capital from XRP into assets with stronger narratives or higher expected returns. For investors, this shift could raise questions about whether it is time to sell. Although institutional outflows do not automatically signal a price decline, they can indicate weakening confidence among large investors. If these outflows continue in the coming weeks, it could be a sign of caution ahead. Featured image from Pxfuel, chart from Tradingview.com
XRP’s price performance is stripping out fast-money participation while leaving behind a more durable class of holders. According to CryptoSlate's data, XRP is trading at $1.37 as of press time, down 55% within the last six months. This comes as data from CoinGlass shows XRP's open interest has fallen to about $2.40 billion from a […]
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Bitcoin remains under pressure as war and poor jobs data offset ETF inflows, shifting the $78,000 price target from late March to the coming months.
Grammarly said it will rethink the tool after criticism that it used real experts—including some who are deceased—without consent.
Blockchain payments giant Ripple has initiated a share buyback program that positions the company at a substantial valuation of $50 billion. Ripple Revives Share Buyback Effort According to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg, Ripple plans to repurchase up to $750 million in shares from both investors and employees. The plan is set to run through April, as disclosed by sources familiar with the situation. This new buyback effort follows a previous attempt in September, when Ripple aimed to buy back $1 billion worth of shares. However, that initiative fell short, as the company’s participation rate was notably low compared to earlier rounds of tender offers. Related Reading: XRP Price Outlook: Analyst Foresees New All-Time Highs Above $40 In 2026 During that attempt, Ripple had valued the company at $40 billion but struggled to attract interest from current shareholders, suggesting that many were reluctant to part with their stakes in what they believed to be a promising venture. Despite the recent buyback news, the blockchain payment company has consistently maintained that it has no plans to take Ripple public in the United States. Meanwhile, a growing number of crypto firms, including giants such as Circle (CRCL) and Gemini (GME), have launched their own initial public offerings (IPOs) in the US over the past year, amid a notable shift toward a pro-crypto environment among regulators. XRP Price Sees Minor Recovery In connection with the buyback announcement, XRP, Ripple’s associated digital asset, experienced a slight rebound, reaching approximately $1.39 at the time of writing. Related Reading: Top Analyst Suggests Solana May Surpass XRP In Market Value: Here’s Why And When However, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization continues to face challenges in all time frames, recording losses between 4% and 5% over the past seven to fourteen-day period, respectively. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
A proposed plan by the agency would ban “pass-through insurance“ for stablecoins by third parties in addition to the FDIC not insuring deposits under the law.
Despite the bear market, today's report suggests a higher valuation than the $40 billion at which the firm raised funds in November.
The digital asset infrastructure company plans to launch the pool in April as it expands beyond Bitcoin mining services.
The latest liquidity picture suggests digital dollars are still building inside crypto, but they are concentrating on the chains with the deepest trust, clearest utility, and strongest settlement gravity. For much of the last cycle, stablecoin growth was treated as a simple bullish cue. More digital dollars meant more buying power, more risk appetite, and, eventually, more upside for Bitcoin and the broader market. That reading still matters, but it is no longer enough. In 2026, the real signal is not just whether stablecoin liquidity is growing. It is where that liquidity is choosing to sit before it gets deployed. The current USD stablecoin category is roughly a $306 billion market, large enough that internal capital rotation now says as much about market structure as headline expansion does. The Real Signal Is Not Supply Alone A recent BitBullNews Stablecoin Flow Monitor made that distinction especially clear. Its core finding was not that capital left crypto. It did not. The more useful takeaway was that liquidity kept expanding overall while becoming more selective in distribution. Ethereum posted the largest absolute weekly gain in tracked stablecoin supply, Tron continued reinforcing its role as the market’s dominant USDT corridor, Base stood out as one of the strongest relative gainers, Solana held broadly steady, and Arbitrum recorded the clearest decline among the major chains covered in the report. That is not a market-wide retreat. It is a market choosing where it feels safest warehousing dollars. That distinction matters because stablecoins are not passive background assets anymore. They are the market’s dry powder, settlement layer, and increasingly its confidence gauge. When fresh supply builds broadly, that can be read as available fuel. But when it clusters unevenly, the more revealing question becomes what kind of risk the market is willing to take next. Concentrated flows usually say more than aggregate numbers do. Ethereum, Tron, And Base Are Telling Different Stories Ethereum’s latest growth reinforces its role as the balance-sheet layer of crypto. It remains the network most closely associated with deep collateral markets, large DeFi positions, institutional familiarity, and high-value settlement. When fresh stablecoin balances keep moving there, the message is usually less speculative than structural. Capital is not necessarily chasing the hottest beta first. It is often parking where liquidity depth and composability are strongest. Tron, by contrast, is winning a very different contest. It is not the chain institutions cite most often in polished tokenization presentations, but it remains one of the most important rails for moving digital dollars at scale. The BitBullNews monitor notes that Tron stayed firmly in second place in tracked stablecoin supply and continued to function as the market’s dominant USDT transport corridor. That matters because efficiency, distribution, and transactional utility still beat narrative elegance when real capital needs to move. Base is perhaps the most interesting middle case. Its growth looks less like an ideological shift and more like targeted migration into a cheaper, faster extension of the Ethereum orbit. In the March 2–8 snapshot, Base added more than $140 million in tracked stablecoin supply and remained overwhelmingly USDC-led. That suggests it is increasingly being used as a practical expansion zone for dollar liquidity that wants Ethereum adjacency without full Ethereum cost. Why This Matters For Bitcoin Before It Matters For Altcoins This is where many market participants still overread stablecoin growth. More on-chain dollars do not automatically mean altseason is around the corner. Sometimes they mean caution with optionality. Sometimes they mean liquidity is preparing for deployment but has not yet chosen risk. Sometimes they mean the market prefers rails over exposure. For Bitcoin, that distinction is important. BTC is usually the first major beneficiary when on-chain dollar capacity remains healthy because it is still the cleanest, deepest, most institutionally legible expression of crypto risk. If stablecoin liquidity is building while concentrating in the most trusted environments, that can support Bitcoin before it supports lower-quality or narrative-driven parts of the market. In that sense, chain-level stablecoin flow can act as a lead indicator for how selectively the next wave of capital may move. This is an inference, but it is the one the latest market structure most strongly supports. Issuer Quality Still Sets The Ceiling There is also a second layer to this story: not all digital dollars carry the same trust profile. Circle says USDC is always redeemable 1:1 for dollars, backed by highly liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets, with reserve composition disclosed publicly. On March 6, 2026, Circle showed USDC reserves composition on its transparency page and described the majority of reserves as being held in the Circle Reserve Fund, an SEC-registered government money market fund. That does not reduce the centrality of Tether, which remains the largest stablecoin and one of the deepest pools of crypto-native dollar liquidity. But it does explain why the market often uses USDT and USDC differently. In a stablecoin system still overwhelmingly dominated by those two issuers, disclosure quality, redemption confidence, and distribution power are not side issues. They are market-structure variables. Final Take The key question now is no longer whether stablecoins are growing. They are. The more important question is where that growth is settling, and what kind of behavior that usually precedes. Right now, the answer looks selective rather than euphoric. Digital dollars are staying inside crypto, but they are becoming more deliberate about which chains deserve them first. That is a constructive signal for the market, but not an indiscriminate one. And for Bitcoin, that may be exactly the kind of setup that matters most: liquidity is present, trust is concentrated, and capital still appears to prefer quality before it prefers chaos.
Microsoft filed a court brief backing Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon—a move that reveals just how much the tech giant has riding on Claude's survival.
Wells Fargo has applied for a trademark for "WFUSD" for potential use in service categories that mention crypto and stablecoins.
Ripple launches a $750M share buyback, valuing the company at $50B as it expands its digital asset infrastructure business.
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The cost of medical care, apparel, household furnishings, airline fares, and education all rose during the month of February, BLS data shows.
XRP’s prolonged decline has seen its price down more than 60% from its 2025 peak, placing it inside what can be viewed as an extended corrective phase. As expected, this has led to questions among crypto investors as to whether XRP can still go on a rally this year that would see it push to new all-time highs and possibly above $4. One analyst has now laid out a scenario suggesting XRP could soon complete its correction and begin another upward wave that may eventually push the price to new highs. XRP May Be Nearing The End Of A Long Corrective Phase The prevailing discussion around XRP’s decline in the past few months has largely centered on the cryptocurrency topping out at its summer 2025 all-time high of $3.65. According to one analyst posting on X, that reading may be fundamentally incorrect. Related Reading: Expert Trader Shows ‘Simple Math’ To Calculate The Bitcoin Price Bottom Based on this analysis, the impulsive wave for XRP completed as far back as January 2025, when XRP reached a peak above $3.30. This was several months before the all-time high was printed. The subwaves originating from July 2024 fit best as an impulsive structure that concluded in January 2025, with the price action that followed, including the ATH, forming a corrective pattern. The last major corrective stretch on the weekly chart lasted 61 weeks from top to bottom and erased about 85% of XRP’s value before the next meaningful recovery began. Applying that same time window to the January 2025 high would place the current correction close to completion around mid-March 2026. XRP Price Chart. Source: @protechtor On X As shown in the chart above, XRP’s earlier correction after 2021 unfolded inside a descending channel and lasted 61 bars, or 427 days, before finding a low. The price decline during that phase reached about 85.34%. The current structure on the right side of the chart is looking like that earlier breakdown in both shape and duration. This time, the decline has so far reached about 71.52%, with the same 61-week duration highlighted as a key timing marker. A descending trendline cuts through the current price structure and converges at $1.05. According to the analyst, that level could serve as the final downside target if XRP has not already bottomed. Can XRP Still Reach $4 In 2026? A move to $4 in 2026 would require XRP to do far more than just bounce from support, but the scenario is not unrealistic if the current correction is approaching its end. A rally from the analyst’s suggested downside at $1.05 to $4 would represent a gain of about 281%. Even from the price zone shown on the chart, around $1.38, XRP would still need to climb 200% to reclaim and break beyond the upper boundary of the current corrective structure. Related Reading: Bitcoin Liquidation Map Predicts The Next Targets To Watch Out For A confirmed monthly bottom followed by a strong push above the horizontal resistance area at $1.80 would likely be the first signal. From there, the upper trendline of the current structure and the prior highs around the $3.4 to $3.6 range would become the next price targets. This is where the $4 discussion will become more realistic. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
Binance data points to shifting liquidity flows and evolving trader positioning that may support Bitcoin’s next price move.
Foundry plans to launch an institutional grade Zcash mining pool in April 2026, expanding compliant mining infrastructure for the network.
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A vulnerability in some MediaTek-powered phones could allow attackers to extract encrypted data, including wallet seed phrases, using only a USB connection.
Revolut receives PRA approval to launch a UK bank, enabling FSCS protected deposits and new services for its 13 million UK customers.
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The integration of AI agents with blockchain infrastructure could revolutionize secure transaction execution, enhancing the onchain economy.
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Binance returns to Iran sanctions scrutiny after its $4.3 billion U.S. plea The Justice Department is reportedly probing Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions, pulling the world’s largest crypto exchange back into a national security case less than three years after it pleaded guilty in the U.S. and agreed to a resolution worth more […]
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Ben McKenzie's film, “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money” touts interviews with former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on his political donations.
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The investment makes Strive the latest corporate to add the yield-generating security to its balance sheet as companies explore Bitcoin-linked treasury instruments.
Arthur Hayes is still structurally bullish on Bitcoin. He just does not think now is the moment to buy. Speaking on the Coin Stories podcast on March 10, the BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO said he would stay patient until a more familiar macro catalyst arrives: central bank liquidity. In Hayes’ telling, a prolonged Iran war and the credit stress that could follow from AI-driven economic disruption may ultimately force the Federal Reserve back into money printing, and that, rather than the conflict itself, is the signal he is waiting for. “If I had $1 to invest right now, would I be putting it into Bitcoin? No. I would wait,” Hayes said near the end of the interview. “I think that the longer that this conflict goes on, the higher the likelihood that the Fed has to print money to support the American war machine and that’s when I’m going to buy Bitcoin when the central banks start printing money.” That distinction mattered throughout the conversation. Hayes pushed back on the idea that war is automatically bullish for Bitcoin, arguing that the real transmission mechanism is liquidity expansion. “If you’re saying, ‘Okay, war is good for Bitcoin,’ what you’re really saying is war means money printing. Money printing is good for Bitcoin,” he said. “So wait for the money printing. Don’t try to time it because you could get it wrong.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Short Bets Surge—Will Bears Get Squeezed? Arthur Hayes Sees More Bitcoin Pain Ahead The argument fits a broader framework Hayes laid out across the interview: Bitcoin is less a clean debasement trade than a “liquidity alarm,” one that is already reacting to tightening conditions, credit stress and a lack of fresh dollar creation. He tied that view to the rise of AI, which he said could accelerate white-collar job losses, pressure private credit and banking exposures, and force markets to price in a much sharper economic break than many currently expect. “I think it’s going to happen faster than people think just because of the exponential nature of how fast AI is improving,” Hayes said. “It only takes 10 to 20% [job displacement]. And then the leverage in the banking system will do the rest. At some point the market goes, ‘Oh, this is worth zero.’” In that scenario, he said, the market’s recognition of the problem could come well before the full economic damage is visible in the data. Regional banks, private credit and broader financial equities could reprice violently, with deposit flight and emergency Fed support following close behind. That is the moment Hayes sees as far more constructive for Bitcoin than the current backdrop. Related Reading: Bitcoin Stabilizes, But Glassnode Warns Spot Demand Is Still Weak Still, his near-term caution did not extend to Bitcoin’s long-run role. Hayes described himself as “structurally very very long” crypto and argued that the case for non-state money is stronger now than it was at Bitcoin’s launch. He also warned against shaping the industry around institutional preferences, saying crypto should not reduce itself to a more complicated version of traditional finance. “Bitcoin got from zero to whatever $66,000 whatever the price is today with no government support, unclear regulations, hostile banking infrastructure and regulators,” Hayes said. “So why are we bending over backwards to try to gain acceptance from these folks who don’t have our best interest at heart?” He was equally dismissive of conspiracy-driven explanations for weak market performance, including claims that market makers are deliberately suppressing Bitcoin’s price. More often, he said, losses come down to poor positioning, bad timing or leverage used by traders who are not equipped for crypto’s pace. For investors frustrated that Bitcoin has not delivered instant life-changing returns, Hayes’ answer was blunt: adjust expectations. “The market’s job is not to make you money. The market’s job is to take your money,” he said, arguing that long-term compounding still matters far more than trying to force a six-month windfall. At press time, BTC traded at $69,538. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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The move is a major step in Revolut's goal to become a global digital bank. Services like crypto and stock trading remain separate.
VanEck products will be available on fintech 401(k) provider Basic Capital, offering retirement savers potential exposure to digital assets through exchange-traded funds.
Goldman Sachs has emerged as the largest institutional holder of spot XRP exchange-traded fund shares, with nearly $154 million in holdings across multiple XRP ETF products. Despite the sizable institutional exposure, XRP has struggled to move above $1.50 in recent weeks. 13F Filings Show Institutional Positioning in XRP ETFs Goldman Sachs filed its 13F report …