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.
Both vendors agree the bug is real on a lab bench; Tangem argues it stays academic because resetting the PIN needs a laser, the card in hand, and rare know-how.
The July 9 letter asks the CFTC to turn Phantom's March no-action relief into a broader, codified rule so any wallet can plug into registered derivatives venues without becoming a broker.
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…
Built in nine months and live across the largest bank consortium on the planet, SWIFT's crypto ledger turns cross-border tokenized settlement from pilot theater into production rails overnight.
Agentic trading is moving from experimental wrappers to a tier-one neobank, with Revolut exposing its exchange to third-party AI models while keeping the user on the hook for every approval click.
The threat is not a $4.7T headline but a structural one: if tokenized deposits and securities settle inside bank-controlled ledgers, the volume that once fed public chains never arrives, leaving…
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 team ran core developer calls, EIP coordination, and the Protocol Fellowship. Its dissolution is part of a wider shake-up at the foundation, not a one-off layoff.
A derivatives license would let Polymarket's U.S. arm offer leveraged bets on events for the first time since a 2022 CFTC settlement, putting it on a regulatory footing with Kalshi.
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…