SWIFT's ex-CIO rejects XRP partnership rumor in public reply
Zschach's dismissal came hours after Ripple Treasury joined SWIFT's certified program, but the brief exchange isn't a SWIFT endorsement of XRP.
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Zschach's dismissal came hours after Ripple Treasury joined SWIFT's certified program, but the brief exchange isn't a SWIFT endorsement of XRP.
The OCC charter lets Circle sit alongside the regulated US banks holding digital assets in custody, formalising the legitimacy that issuers have spent the last three years arguing USDC already has.
The IEA's 2026 demand decline forecast, its first outside the pandemic shock, lands as Middle East supply disruptions and a structural EV shift pull consumption in opposite directions.
The denial itself is the story, but the months of clipped context that made the rumor believable, and the real governance frictions behind it, sit underneath it.
The split matters: with BTC back at a level it failed to break earlier in the week and ETH outperforming, derivatives data shows the move is being driven by strategic positioning rather than…
CleanSpark-backed plan would have let the state issue debt against bitcoin holdings. The rejection, after the House and Senate had already approved a framework, resets the US state-level adoption…
491M $USDT (≈490.9M) moved from unknown wallet to #Aave.
115M $USDT (≈114.9M) moved from unknown wallet to #Aave.
115M $USDT (≈115M) moved from #JustLendDAO to unknown wallet.
CASHCAT alone generated roughly $98M of the $560–570M total, but a Morpho-driven TVL crossing $100M in week one is the more durable signal for the new Layer-2.
The headline number is the spectacle, but the real claim is comparative: Lee pegs ETH against gold ($22T), equities ($100T+) and real estate ($300T) and argues the on-chain migration is still ahead.
An anonymous December 2023 post timing the October 2025 top to the day now lines up with a separate model pointing to a Q4 2026 bottom, both feeding the same cycle structure.
Tokenized assets took the top slot while memecoins faded and delistings outpaced new tokens, painting a market still rotating rather than broadening.
The put-call ratio split tells the actual story: ETH traders opened more puts than calls, while BTC positioning stayed almost evenly balanced ahead of Friday's expiry.
The judge who set the XRP precedent is now drawing a line on prediction-market expansion, signalling that state gambling statutes still apply where federal CFTC oversight stops.
Behind the sideways tape sits one of BTC's largest cost-basis clusters: roughly 6% of circulating supply last moved between $58K and $64K, building a support band the next breakout will have to clear…
Ark rotated out of Robinhood and into USDC issuer Circle the same week Circle's stock slid more than 20% from its post-IPO peak, a classic Wood-style buy-the-dip on a name she has called out as…
A market-structure bill that splits regulator jurisdiction over digital assets could land in the House as soon as next week, pulling regulatory clarity back to the front of the crypto agenda.
The plaintiffs ask courts to declare long-dormant Bitcoin abandoned, but the wallets that actually transacted while the case was pending expose the limits of an 'inactivity equals abandonment' theory…
CoinGecko's top 10 sits unchanged between the 09:00 UTC snapshots on 09 Jul and 10 Jul, and no new tokens crossed the…