Trump’s executive order opening 401(k)s to crypto has drawn a mix of praise, caution and criticism from industry leaders and skeptics alike.
Trump’s move may change US retirement plans. Bitcoin could soon be part of your 401(k), and Wall Street is getting ready.
While you can’t literally split a private key, there are secure legal and technical methods to share or divide control of crypto assets during divorce.
El Salvador's Bitcoin bank initiative could reshape global financial norms, challenging traditional banking and influencing crypto adoption.
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Crypto investing has entered a new era. With U.S. regulators greenlighting 19 spot cryptocurrency ETFs, including 11 for Bitcoin and 8 for Ethereum. Successively, traditional and new investors alike can now access digital assets with a click, minus the wallet headaches. But as we edge closer to possible altcoin ETF launches, will this disrupt the …
Stellar price today (XLM) is showing renewed strength, with its price rallying amidst a generally bullish outlook for the broader cryptocurrency market. After a period of retracement from mid-July, Stellar price USD has recaptured investor attention, with a recent intraday spike, which happened due to a combination of powerful technical signals and fundamental developments that …
Bitcoin is facing a serious supply crunch as big institutions scoop up coins faster than miners can produce them. With demand soaring and supply shrinking, the race for Bitcoin is heating up. Could Bitcoin’s limited supply spark the next massive price surge? Institutional Buying Sparks Supply Crunch Institutional investors have snapped up over 545,000 BTC …
Ripple’s courtroom victory over the SEC has ignited a fresh round of verbal crossfire in the crypto world. Pro-XRP lawyer Bill Morgan wasted no time calling out Bitcoin maximalists, especially MicroStrategy chairman Michael Saylor, over their long-running claims that altcoins like XRP are securities. “XRP itself was, is, and forever will be, not a security,” …
El Salvador is signaling its next significant step in Bitcoin adoption by planning to create a dedicated Bitcoin bank. On Aug. 8, the country’s Bitcoin Office posted on X, declaring: “Bitcoin Banks are coming to the Bitcoin Country.” Although no further details were disclosed, the announcement suggests a plan to integrate Bitcoin-based banking into the […]
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Block, the fintech company led by Jack Dorsey, increased its Bitcoin holdings by 108 BTC in the second quarter of 2025. This brings the total to 8,692 BTC, valued at roughly $1 billion. Despite a $212 million revaluation loss due to Bitcoin’s price drop, Block reported strong financial results with a 14% rise in gross …
The bounce in FIL came as the wider crypto market rose, with the Coindesk 20 index recently up 3.1%.
El Salvador has announced plans to introduce the world’s first Bitcoin banks, aiming to integrate Bitcoin more deeply into its financial system. The initiative builds on President Nayib Bukele’s pro-Bitcoin strategy, seeking to offer banking services fully denominated in Bitcoin. These Bitcoin banks could enhance financial inclusion in a country with many unbanked citizens by …
El Salvador’s bold Bitcoin experiment is taking another leap forward. The country’s official Bitcoin Office announced on X that “Bitcoin Banks” are on the way, marking what could be the first banking system in the world fully built around Bitcoin. While the announcement was brief, it signals a major step in embedding BTC into the …
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As trust in crypto exchanges remains low, Binance’s new custody deal with BBVA marks a shift toward traditional finance safeguards.
China has told brokers, think tanks, and financial institutions to stop promoting stablecoins – no research reports, no seminars, no hype. The orders, issued in late July and early August, are aimed at cooling the growing interest in the sector. Regulators are worried that stablecoins could be used for fraud in mainland China, and that …
Crypto pundit Versan Aljarrah, the founder of Black Swan Capitalist, published a lengthy post on X on Aug. 7 alleging that the XRP price is being deliberately constrained by a multi-pronged architecture spanning exchanges, regulation, and liquidity infrastructure. Framing the situation as “The Biggest Financial Cover-Up,” Aljarrah writes that “the current price of XRP doesn’t reflect its utility, its adoption, or its strategic position,” and claims the “suppression mechanisms in place are layered, coordinated, and strategically embedded within the very exchanges, regulations, and infrastructure that claim to support a free market.” Is The XRP Price Manipulated? Anchoring his thesis to the SEC’s December 2020 enforcement action against Ripple, Aljarrah characterizes the timing as deliberate and disruptive rather than investor-protective. “This wasn’t about investor protection. It was strategic economic warfare,” he argues, asserting that “just days after XRP began gaining traction on Bloomberg and other news outlets,” the lawsuit was filed “under direct orders from central planners and Wall Street.” He ties that filing to what he describes as momentum in XRP’s real-world payments utility, citing Ripple’s relationship with MoneyGram and “other key global payment corridors.” According to Aljarrah, the case “froze US institutional capital, forced XRP off most trading platforms, and created uncertainty around its legal status,” echoing a view he attributes to @Jvallee2000 that the action was about “disrupting momentum and eliminating competition through regulatory overreach.” Related Reading: XRP Price Projection: 5 Key Things To Watch Out For As The Bull Market Unfolds The core of his market-structure critique targets centralized exchanges. Aljarrah claims that whenever “liquidity begins to build or organic volume starts to rise,” XRP encounters “clear patterns of coordinated resistance.” He alleges the presence of “algorithmic trading bots, spoof orders, and systematic wash trading” that “consistently stall momentum or create fake volume to obscure real demand,” and argues that if XRP “were treated like any other digital asset,” it would exhibit “sharp upward price action as utility driven demand increases.” Instead, he says, the market repeatedly “bumps into artificial sell walls at key resistance points and high volume transactions that mysteriously have no impact whatsoever on the spot price,” which he calls “no accident.” Aljarrah devotes particular attention to how he believes enterprise payments activity is insulated from public price discovery. He describes Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity flows as settling in XRP “but [being] intentionally kept off the radar of traditional market activity.” In his telling, “volume is somehow routed through OTC desks, private liquidity hubs, and arranged corridor partners to minimize slippage and limit the market exposure.” That routing, he argues, enables XRP to “function as a global bridge asset without triggering visible price increases on public exchanges.” He concedes uncertainty on the precise mechanics—“I’m not sure how this is done but maybe this has anything to do with it?”—and points readers to an external video clip as a possible illustration. Related Reading: XRP May Be Headed For A Deeper Correction, Warns Analyst He then situates these alleged microstructure effects within what he portrays as a structurally restricted US market during critical adoption years. “Coinbase, Kraken, and other major exchanges delisted and restricted XRP following the SEC lawsuit, effectively cutting off access for retail investors,” Aljarrah writes, while claiming Ripple’s expansion “globally, particularly across Asia and the Middle East,” left US participants “sidelined under the guise of regulatory uncertainty.” He characterizes the dynamic bluntly: “The US was playing both sides, and there’s proof of it.” XRP Adoption In The Dark? The post also advances a narrative of divergence between XRP’s intended function and its observed trading correlations. Aljarrah says XRP has been “treated as a long term utility instrument for a new monetary system, unlike 99% of the crypto market,” yet its price action remains tethered to “violent, speculative assets like $BTC and $ETH, neither of which offer any real utility.” He alleges “institutional accumulation behind the scenes,” asserting that while “retail investors were kept in the dark and blocked from key markets, institutional players gained early access through private investment vehicles, regulatory sandboxes, and cross-border corridor testing.” Summarizing this view, he insists: “The flows are real, yet none of it shows up on public charts. Meaning, XRP is being adopted. It’s being used. But its price is being managed.” Price level rhetoric features prominently in Aljarrah’s conclusion. “You can’t accept XRP’s role in real time settlements, central bank integrations, and global remittance adoption at a stagnant $3 price tag without acknowledging how tightly it’s being controlled,” he writes, adding a categorical forecast: “If XRP were allowed to operate in a truly open and fair global marketplace, without artificial barriers, I guarantee you it wouldn’t be hovering around three dollars.” He closes by asserting a deliberate, time-bound design to the current state of play: “There’s a deliberate framework designed to suppress XRP until the infrastructure is fully built and legacy systems are ready to migrate.” The open issue he poses—“how long will the suppression continue while the very institutions enforcing it prepare to flip the switch?”—serves as his final provocation. Aljarrah’s post presents a comprehensive allegation that links legal timing, exchange behavior, liquidity routing, and institutional access to a single outcome: visible underpricing relative to utility. The claims are framed as assertions rather than accompanied by underlying order-book data, corridor-level volumes, or documentary evidence. But his position, in his own words, is unambiguous: “XRP is being adopted. It’s being used. But its price is being managed.” At press time, XRP traded at $3.33. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Chinese financial regulators have instructed local brokerages and research organizations to halt the promotion of stablecoins. They were told to stop publishing studies and cancel seminars on stablecoins due to concerns over fraud and speculative risks. This move aims to prevent a rush of uninformed investors into the asset class. Despite China’s crypto ban, digital …
Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, Base, has announced it will start collecting coined content as part of its push to support creators in a new digital economy. In an Aug. 7 post on X, the Ethereum layer-2 said it will hold these tokens indefinitely, with no plans to trade or sell them. It also stressed that […]
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Bitcoin is 31% undervalued vs its energy-based “fair” price, analysis calculates, as hash rate beats records.
Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong arm and Animoca Brands have launched a joint venture, Anchorpoint Financial, to develop a licensed Hong Kong dollar stablecoin.
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum, managing $1 billion in assets, has launched a full range of services for the $SUI cryptocurrency tailored to institutional clients. The offering includes secure custody, trading, staking, and lending, giving professional investors access to multiple ways of engaging with the SUI ecosystem. This move aims to meet growing demand from …
Binance has teamed up with Spain’s BBVA to provide off-exchange asset storage solutions for customers. This partnership offers a safer way to hold digital assets outside trading platforms, reducing risks associated with exchanges. By combining Binance’s crypto expertise with BBVA’s strong banking presence, the partnership aims to deliver secure, compliant, and transparent custody services. Customers …
China's move to curb stablecoin promotion highlights its cautious approach to crypto, aiming to prevent speculative bubbles and maintain control.
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Ripple Labs’ long-running legal fight with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is officially over after both sides agreed to drop their appeals in the case. Related Reading: Bitcoin Insult Alert: Pro Trader Dubs HODLers ‘Idiots,’ Saylor Fires Back According to reports, a joint filing on August 7 confirmed the decision to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, ending a nearly five-year dispute that has shaped debate over how cryptocurrencies are regulated. Back To Business Ripple’s chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty said on social media the matter was “over” and the company could get “back to business.” Following the Commission’s vote today, the SEC and Ripple formally filed directly with the Second Circuit to dismiss their appeals. The end…and now back to business. https://t.co/nVqthNcFOt — Stuart Alderoty (@s_alderoty) August 7, 2025 Appeals Withdrawn, Penalties Finalized Based on reports, the SEC has withdrawn its challenge to a 2023 ruling that XRP sales on public exchanges were not securities. Ripple, in turn, dropped its own appeal on the finding that institutional sales of XRP violated securities laws. Both parties will shoulder their own legal expenses. The case’s resolution finalizes $125 million in penalties first outlined by Judge Analisa Torres. Of that, $50 million will go to the US Treasury, while $75 million—held in escrow since June—will be returned to Ripple. The ruling also leaves in place a permanent injunction stopping Ripple from making institutional XRP sales without following securities laws. It can be recalled that the litigation started in December 2020 when the regulatory body charged Ripple with raising $1.3 billion from unregistered securities offerings. Ripple protested innocence, claiming XRP is not a security. In July 2023, Judge Torres agreed with the SEC on “programmatic” sales to institutional buyers but decided such type of sales to retail purchasers were not deemed as “securities.” Political Shift Shapes Outcome The move to suspend appeals follows US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and appointment of new bosses at the SEC. According to reports, under the new chair, Paul Atkins, the agency has backed away from more than a dozen enforcement actions and investigations involving crypto firms in recent months. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse earlier said both parties had already agreed in June to put closure to their appeals, though negotiations to reduce the penalties failed. Meanwhile, market observers say the outcome is a reflection of the SEC’s softened approach in other high-profile cases, including those involving Coinbase and Kraken. For the crypto industry, this resolution is being viewed as a sign of changing tides in Washington’s stance when it comes to regulation. Related Reading: Crypto Is Here To Stay—Even The SEC Can’t Do Anything About It, Analyst Says XRP Sees Renewed Trading Activity Following news of the case’s end, XRP shot up 13%, registering a 24-hour trading volume of $9.50 billion—an increase of more than 100% compared from the previous day. XRP’s price has been climbing by around 14% in the last seven days, latest data shows. Analysts say the sharp spike in activity signals renewed investor confidence now that the legal cloud over Ripple has been cleared. Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView
Ethereum Foundation (EF) Co-Executive Director Tomasz Stańczak has urged developers to redirect their attention toward the upcoming Fusaka upgrade, warning that focus on the later Glamsterdam release could jeopardize near-term progress. In an Aug. 8 update on X, Stańczak said he had advised project coordinators to pause discussions about Glamsterdam. That upgrade is not expected […]
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Ripple Labs recently scored a major win after both sides filed to dismiss their appeals in the long-running SEC lawsuit. The case, which accused Ripple of selling XRP as an unregistered security, had been a major shadow over the company’s future. Interestingly, around the same time, Ripple announced its $200 million acquisition of Rail, a …
IVD Medical’s ETH buy will serve as both the backbone of its ivd.xyz tokenization platform and a yield-generating treasury asset, powering settlements, stablecoin backing, and staking strategies.
Ukraine’s central bank said it remains prepared to move forward with crypto legalization while reaffirming that virtual assets will not be recognized as legal tender, per RBC Ukraine. National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Andriy Pyshnyy said on August 8 that “virtual assets cannot be a means of payment in Ukraine” and described this restriction […]
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Humanity Protocol’s $1.1B-valued mainnet uses zkTLS to link Web2 credentials with Web3 services while keeping user data private.