XRP Ledger Swell 2024: David Schwartz Teases Biggest Event Yet
The CTO's preview frames the annual gathering around payments, tokenization, and interoperability — the three use cases XRP holders are watching for a fresh catalyst.
Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
The CTO's preview frames the annual gathering around payments, tokenization, and interoperability — the three use cases XRP holders are watching for a fresh catalyst.
Warsh's first FOMC appearance traded Powell's plain-English doctrine for political register and boardroom jargon — and he refused to draw a timeline for easing, undercutting the pre-appointment read…
Falling oil prices typically ease inflation pressure and boost consumer spending power, giving the Fed more room to hold or cut rates.
The headline is volume, not the favourite: $2.54B traded before a ball is kicked, with $58M concentrated on France at 18.5% and Spain and Argentina trailing.
The exchange argues the CFTC's decade-first nod to onshore perpetual contracts undercuts its own dominance in regulated US crypto derivatives — a turf fight with structural consequences for how…
The shutdown is small in dollar terms — aUSDT's $1.27M cap is a rounding error against USDT — but it continues Tether's pattern of pruning peripheral stablecoins to concentrate on its core dollar…
Three simultaneous suits, naming Coinbase and Robinhood affiliates, frame a direct challenge to CFTC federal preemption — and land a day after a Michigan court cleared the way for state-level…
A single $7.46M position on a group-stage match is one of the largest individual sports-betting wagers the platform has hosted this cycle, with $2.71M in potential profit.
Hayes is one of crypto's most-watched directional traders; a $2.63M ETH accumulation at current prices signals he sees near-term upside — or at minimum, a floor worth defending.
The fight isn't over perpetuals themselves — it's over whether a regulated venue like CME gets first crack at the benchmark, with Duffy arguing Dodd-Frank makes the venue question settled law.
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
Armstrong's read attributes the pullback to AI rotation, stablecoin regulatory tailwinds, and cooling inflation — not structural demand erosion — and he's still long into 2030.
The call puts sovereign stablecoin issuance and on-chain equity on the same policy agenda — a framework that would let any country plug its capital markets directly into global crypto liquidity.
The agreement formalizes a revenue stream for Iran over one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints, with implications for shipping costs and sanctions enforcement.
STRC is a 12.9% variable-rate preferred built to hold $100 par. The drop below $90 forces Strategy to pause its at-the-market share issuance — and amplifies the 'death spiral' debate around the…
With the stablecoin market at $320B and projected to hit $4T by 2030, Fidelity and State Street are racing to capture the reserve-management mandate the GENIUS Act just created.
The deal gives Ripple a direct foothold in Africa's fragmented cross-border payments infrastructure — a market where XRP's settlement rails have the most to prove against legacy correspondent banking.
Saylor frames the current AI data center financing wave as a 12-to-24-week rotation cycle — not a structural shift away from Bitcoin — with inflows expected to resume once those deals close and…
The remark is short but the source is high-leverage: a sitting Fed Chair signalling openness to change is the kind of forward guidance markets reprice around.
Warsh's debut at the podium marks a leadership transition at the world's most influential central bank, with markets watching for any tonal shift in how the Fed communicates policy direction.