RLUSD launches in Japan after FSA regulatory clearance
Japan is the first major Asian market for Ripple's dollar stablecoin, and SBI VC Trade is the only on-ramp. Distribution is the gate now, not the approval.
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Japan is the first major Asian market for Ripple's dollar stablecoin, and SBI VC Trade is the only on-ramp. Distribution is the gate now, not the approval.
The figure is unusually large for a single sanctioned-jurisdiction channel, and it lands on a venue already on US watchlists, sharpening the enforcement read for every other mid-tier exchange.
The Deribit purchase vaulted Coinbase into the dominant global derivatives seat overnight, and management is already telling investors the pipeline is open for the next one.
The Wall Street Journal tied the exchange to wallets linked to Iran's central bank and to the $1.5B Bybit hack, escalating a sanctions-evasion case that now names a venue, a central bank, and North…
The phrasing lands as a campaign-style reset to a risk-on posture, with rate-cut expectations, a softer dollar, and pro-crypto regulatory tailwinds already priced into US equity and BTC positioning.
The only other time BTC traded below its 200-week moving average was the FTX collapse. Now Strategy's MSTR sits below $100, a Cardano wallet exploit is draining users, and the Senate's Clarity Act is…
The largest 30-day redemption streak in spot BTC ETF history landed during a price slide, with Fidelity and BlackRock funds leading the exit and institutions framing it as sentiment, not a structural…
The platform's public leverage tape lets anyone watch high-conviction blow-ups in real time, and the cascade is starting to drive its own short-term setups.
An estimated one in five miners is now unprofitable at current BTC prices, and the stress is propagating to the network itself.
The memory leader's revenue print underscores how AI infrastructure demand is pulling HBM and DRAM pricing into a different cycle than the rest of semis.
The same week EthLabs launched with 50+ ecosystem backers, the EF cut deeply, and the loudest voices calling it bullish came from a Solana co-founder and Ethereum's own co-founders.
A House Financial Services hearing put the Fed's new direct-access proposal on the hot seat, with lawmakers warning that giving crypto firms a line to the central bank carries systemic and…
A 35% annual drawdown puts Bitcoin on track for one of its worst calendar-year performances since 2018, with the move reflecting broad deleveraging rather than any single catalyst.
The May $1.5B convertible buyback drained the reserve backing STRC dividends, forcing MSTR share sales to rebuild liquidity. CryptoQuant says coverage collapsed from seven years to 14 months.
Glassnode's Week On-Chain reads the breakdown as a spot-led flush with leverage now catching up: persistent GBTC redemptions, a -$205M/day loss-realization trend, and a dense supply wall between…
The break below the long-held $60K floor reframes the tape from consolidation into capitulation, with leveraged longs and thin weekend liquidity amplifying the move.
The withdrawal lands nine days before MiCA's hard deadline, and the regulators who tracked the bid list the same reasons every other jurisdiction will be reading for: prior legal entanglements and…
Record ETF outflows, a negative Coinbase Premium, and a US-session return near -15% over the past month have replaced the institutional bid that powered earlier rallies.
BTC's 3.2% drop came alongside gold and oil giving back hard-asset gains, with Nasdaq up 0.8% the same session, a rotation that veteran hedge-fund manager Philippe Laffont says shows investors now…
The housing bill's four-year CBDC prohibition is collateral damage in a fight over the SAVE America Act, and the delay now threatens the Clarity Act's already tight Senate window.